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Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!
Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.
Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak
All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.
Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.
DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.
DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."
Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
Events
**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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RED CROSS CONTACT INFO:
In the event of an emergency within the sailor’s family, where you feel the sailor must be notified and considered for Emergency Leave, you must notify the American Red Cross through the national headquarters in Washington, DC (1-877-272-7337) or via their website www.redcross.org.
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Comment by SubMom on November 27, 2019 at 5:53pm
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I hope everyone has a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
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Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on November 27, 2019 at 5:50pm
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Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!
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WaterLily - so happy you were able to see your son! I’m hoping to get down to Pensacola this spring - I need a family fix and a beach fix! Your sons birthday is the same day as my husbands. I hope he has a wonderful birthday!! Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
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Doing the Happy Dance for you WaterLily!
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Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on November 25, 2019 at 4:59pm
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WaterLily - That is great that you were able to see your son and spend time with him in FL. Driving a car down to him sounds familiar ;) We have done that twice out to Norfolk for our daughter when she was stationed there. Hopefully you will be able to visit him again and enjoy those beautiful sugar sand beaches that you described.
Thanksgiving Blessings to all our military families!
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Comment by WaterLily on November 25, 2019 at 4:47pm
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I got to see my sailor this past weekend!!! My husband, daughter & I drove a car down to him on Friday (15+ hours, straight through, but worth every minute!) and were able to spend Friday night and all of Saturday with him before heading back yesterday. We hit a high of 76 degrees Saturday afternoon in Pensacola so we were wearing shorts and t-shirts, wandering down the white sugar sand beach along the gulf......I did NOT want to come back to dreary Michigan, LOL.
Our sailor's birthday is on Thanksgiving Day. He'll be on duty that day, so it was great that it worked out for us to head down for an early celebration. He'll be in A school there until mid-late April, give or take, so I sure hope we get another chance to visit while he's in the beautiful Pensacola area.
Happy Thanksgiving & hugs to all you beautiful Michigan moms.
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WaterLily - tell your son not to laugh too hard if Pensacola shuts down due to a "dusting" of snow. If they get an inch life stops! I love making fun of my family when they tell me how cold it is at 30 degrees and a hard freeze :) I do miss the beach and Gulf though!
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Yes, layers for sure! I'm a huge fan of tech fabrics, SmartWool socks & down puffer coats - warmth without the bulk. It's been a weird stretch for much of the country. My sailor is in Pensacola and they're struggling to get warmer than 60 today, with highs next week only forecast in the mid-50's! I would love those temps here in MI, but I'm sure that feels so cold in FL right now.
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B'sNukeMoM - just remember to wear layers! If possible get wicking top and bottom. I have been in MI for over 25 years and am still NOT acclimated. Layers are definitely my friend!
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SubMom - plenty warm here in SoCal! Heading to NE next week to visit younger son and it's going to be really cold!!!! Looking forward to seeing him but not looking forward to the cold lol!
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