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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
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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Discussion Forum
Care packages for new graduates (a school)
Started by Cali's mama. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Mar 19, 2021. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Looking for current information for my daughter on what's allowed for care packages..idk if it matters that she is in the great lakes location or not..ship 7 div 136...lonely mom with confused tears lol
Bootcamp arrival Sept 8, 2020??
Started by Stephanie0725. Last reply by Shoosh Oct 5, 2020. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Hello! Got the call that my daughter made it to bootcamp quarantine last night 09/08/2020. Looking for other moms out there on the same timeline. Sadie is my baby, only daughter, and only child in the military. I think I am going to need lots of…Continue
PIR DATE: December 13, 2019
Started by Donita. Last reply by Donita Nov 5, 2019. 5 Replies 0 Likes
Anyone else’s recruit have a PIR date ofDecember 13, 2019?Continue
Arrived at boot camp October 2nd
Started by Donita. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Nov 5, 2019. 26 Replies 1 Like
Hey everyone- my daughter left for boot camp October 2nd. I missed a call from her last Friday telling me that her graduation is December 13th. I feel like the worst mom in the world for missing her call. Really didn’t expect her to call so soon but…Continue
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Comment by Jappj on October 27, 2014 at 2:01pm
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I am putting money away for that as well as my sons homecoming and my youngest high school graduation its going to be a tight year for me
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Comment by CryptoDad on October 27, 2014 at 1:02pm
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Jappyj,
You want to start saving up for a trip to the commissioning ceremony. All commissionings are special occasions, but the commissioning of the first ship in an entirely new class is a super big deal. Not to be missed.
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CryptoDad - Thanks for the information I will try to forward on to my sailor she is going to be one of 8 CS's on the ship
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Jappyj,
A couple of links to the Zumwalt:
http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg1000/Pages/WelcomeAboard.aspx#...
http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg1000/Documents/CO_Welcome_Aboa...
From the Captain's Welcome Aboard letter:
Congratulations on your assignment to the crew of the navy’s newest and first in its Class,guided missile destroyer, PCU ZUMWALT (DDG 1000)! ZUMWALT is currently under construction at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine and due to deliver in 2014. ZUMWALT maintains a Precommissioning detachment located at the Training Support Center in Norfolk, VA. You can expect to spend a minimum of two months at the detachment prior to reporting to the Precommissioning Unit in Bath, ME. Based on current construction progress and delivery plans, crew members can expect to be in Maine through most of 2015. Sailors with families are encouraged to bring them to Maine.ZUMWALT's eventual homeport has not been finalized, but sanDiego is the planned homeport with arrival there expected in mid-to-late 2016.
FYI - The commanding officer is Captain James Kirk. No kidding.
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Comment by Catsmom on October 27, 2014 at 9:34am
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Good morning,
Anna, prain he stays safe wherever he is going.
jappy, Awe some news. Congrats to both of your Sailors. We are all proud of them!
Have a good day everyone. 4 day work week for me...YEA!
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Comment by spyder013 on October 27, 2014 at 8:51am
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Happy Monday everyone! Anna, again? Hopefully it will be a quiet,safe place this time....is there such a thing anymore? Lol! Definitely not the way it used to be.
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Comment by Oneofalot on October 27, 2014 at 8:27am
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Good Morning to Everyone.
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Comment by Anna on October 26, 2014 at 10:18pm
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jappyj,
Ditto spyder's comments - congratulations to both your awesome sailors!!!! I hope when it's all said and done you can share with us what she will be doing!!!!! My curiosity is piqued!!!! Will keep your son in my prayers for his safety as I do for all our service men and women!! My son, unfortunately, is getting ready for another deployment. All I know so far is that he won't be going back to Afghanistan this time!!!
CatMom509,
Oh I do understand how they can be attached to their favorites. I thought the same thing about the hair brush my daughter wanted sent - I figured for sure she would have picked up a brush in boot, but it wasn't HER brush!!!!! LOL that's our sailors!!!!
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Congrats to you and your awesome sailors!
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So proud of my two Navy sailors; my daughter graduated A school on Friday and received the leadership award!@!!!! she has special orders and will now be heading home to her boyfriends and dads for two weeks then comes back to Norfolk for combat training; she keeps telling us she is a big deal her words not mine. My son received the blue jacket of the year award for his supply division I am so proud of him he called to tell me. As he continues to fight ISIS please pray for his safety and that of his shipmates
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