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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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 Wall
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Comment by Dunesmom on January 25, 2011 at 12:39pm
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Thanks Colleen, hubby is trying to switch weekend with someone else as it is alos his birthday weekend.
OH nikosmom i'm already excited for you and yes we all understand whole heartedly about missing our 'sailors' now im cry.... geesh my husband is getting so sick of me blubbering all the time, lol...OH my gosh you two Maryl59 and Stacy how cool is that that your sailors are going into the same field! Yep N4M;s is just for that reason to share, support, give and get information along with friendships. I am so greatful that i found this sight.
ok it snowstormed all weekend and now it's raining. was going to go to that body thingy at the Van Andel muesum this afternoon but i do believe the rain is supose to freeze. Has anyone seen this exibit yet?
Hugs to all and tissues too!
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Comment by Mary Garner on January 25, 2011 at 12:19pm
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My son is suppose to stay at GL as well and be a medical corpsman!!!!!!!! But I have read that they may change the location. Have you heard this or is it definite for your daughter?
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Comment by Stace (Ship 09 Div 067) on January 25, 2011 at 12:15pm
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Haha, I love that mall over there!! I grew up in Novi..... Anyway, my daughter will being going to GL A school for 14 weeks training to be a hospital corpsman. How about your son?
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Hello Stace! Well, you don't have too much longer to wait! Bet you're excited and just counting down the days! My son graduates 3/11. What will your daughter be doing after graduation?
We are originally from the Detroit and Ann Arbor area and I pass through Brighton on my way up to Grand Rapids.( Actually, I have stopped and shopped up there at your HomeGoods.) We have missed Mi. quite a bit and my husband is very happy to be back home. I have enjoyed the time I get to spend up there.
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Mary, I'm kind of a Newbie too. My daughter will graduate 2/11/11. SOON!! Sorry about the commuting and no luck house finding. BTW, I guess I'm more of an east sider(Brighton), but it is nice to get to know another Navy mom!!
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Hello! Our son went to BC on Jan. 12th so I guess that makes me a newby!
I have seen info about various gatherings and am considering attending. I am not sure because of our situation. You see, my husband and I are in transition. He transferred and moved to Grand Rapids back in Sept. but I am still in the Cincinnati area. We have been commuting back and forth all this time. We have been looking for a home there but have yet to find one. So why am I telling you this? For support, advice, etc. As you can imagine, my load is quite heavy right now so I am grateful to have NavyforMoms and the various groups. It helps to read so much of the info that is on here!
Are you all still having the get together in Rockford in February? I know where the Arnies is there. This is of interest to me if I can be up there during that time.
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Comment by Jaz04 on January 25, 2011 at 9:12am
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You ladies are great. Making my day with your stories. I have gotten some flac from the Seabee group and my co-workers because I want to send stuff to my son in MS as he is moving into an apartment off base and has basically nothing. I am even trying to think of an inexpensive way to send him a bed frame and dresser. I was also asked why I am doing his taxes. It is a habit that when he is ready, he can do his own. So thank you all for the upbeat messages and love you share. Ruth - I hope hubby gets better soon. For those getting ready for PIR - take binoculars. I was up against the wall at the top of the bleachers which made it easier for him to find me. So when I looked at him through the binoculars, he smiled to let me know he saw me :)
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Michimom, congrats to your son.
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Comment by Colleen on January 25, 2011 at 8:28am
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Ruth VH, I hope your husband is feeling better. I've heard of quite of few cases of pneumonia lately.
Nikkosmom, my son has been gone for 1 1/2 years and my heart longs for him everyday. It gets easier in ways, but there is always something missing. I cry or choke up everytime he calls. Songs he loved to listen to or songs that remind me of him make me cry. I'm all misty eyed right now just talking about it. But that's what we do as Moms. And if the weather is good, you are more than welcome to come up here for our lunch on Feb. 26.
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Comment by nikosmom ( CVN 70, Seaman ) on January 24, 2011 at 11:11pm
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Dunesmom, you made me cry, that sounds like something my son would do with his Grandparents, they are very close. you are right, there are GOOD people out there!!!
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