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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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Comment by BoomMom on January 8, 2018 at 9:32pm
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Anyone have a son or daughter scheduled for January 15th start at OCS in Newport?
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Comment by redheadlass on January 8, 2018 at 8:28pm
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Thanks, Glenni for the warm welcome. Good luck to your son. My son did not make the Feb. 7 aviation board deadline as he is still awaiting his physical with MEPS. They are asking for additional information from him. But hopefully he will get that all done and be considered for the next board which I believe is in May 2018.
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Comment by Glenni on January 8, 2018 at 6:41pm
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Rousse54, welcome, and I wish your son the best of luck. My son is studying aerospace engineering at Auburn in the NROTC program. He also hopes to become a pilot.
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Thanks, everyone! He has been on top of his recruiter but the recruiter tells him right now is a very busy time and MEPS is processing a lot of people. I am fairly certain he will miss the February 2018 board and be considered for the next Naval Aviation board, whenever that is!
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Comment by M's mom on December 25, 2017 at 9:20pm
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Welcome rousse54. Unfortunately, the military is very much "hurry up & wait." With my son it was "wait, wait, wait,....now HURRY UP!!!" He was accepted to OCS in 2012 right before his college graduation, but was told that there would not be a spot for him at OCS for about a year! He was weighing his job options, not thinking he would be able to get a very good job if he was honest with a prospective employer that he would be leaving for the military in a year. We were on a family vacation, as a last trip before his job search, when his recruiter called him and said he had to report to OCS in six weeks!!!! It was a very unexpected whirlwind to get all of his stuff ready, memorize all the required Navy info, and try to get into OCS physical shape in just a few weeks, when he had been thinking he had a year!!!
They have to learn to roll with whatever their orders are and whenever. As others have posted, part of the game is showing the recruiter how badly you want it. They want to see the perseverance and drive. Gone are the days when the recruiters would pursue the candidates. Now the candidates must show the Navy that they really, really want it, and they have the Right Stuff. Tell your son to keep at it, and good luck to him!
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Comment by NYNancy on December 25, 2017 at 11:34am
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Welcome rousse54! My DS applied to OCS for pilot when he was 26, but he was enlisted at that time. Your DS needs to graduate from OCS prior to his 27th birthday. Looks like the deadline for the uponing board is Feb 16th. He should get on his recruiter everyday and do whatever takes to get the physical done and his package complete. I wish him all the best!
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Comment by topdog1p on December 24, 2017 at 5:54pm
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Hi and welcome rousse54. your DS sounds similar to my son's path to OCS. He worked as a mech. engineer in the PNW after college then made to the choice of joining the navy. He said persevere in getting paperwork and appointments with the recruiter is key. He too experienced delays but finally did get his date to go to OCS to be a Nuke. Good luck on this next adventure and looking forward to hearing DS has a date at OCS.
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Just introducing myself to the group. My DS , who is 25, who has been working as an aerospace engineer for the last 3 1/2 years, has decided he wants to join the Navy and become a Naval Aviator. He has applied to OCS and has handed in all of the required paperwork but he still has to have his physical. He was hoping to be considered for the February 2018 board but now that the physical has not been completed he will probably not be considered till the following board in 2018.
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Comment by Helomom on November 17, 2017 at 12:38am
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M's mom and Glenni-It was an amazing trip. We had never taken a cruise before and now we are totally addicted! 9 cities and 4 countries without having to pack and repack. Pisa, Lucca, Villefranche, Montecarlo, Barcelona, Cartagena, Malaga, Gibraltar, Ibiza. It was wonderful.
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Comment by Barb on November 15, 2017 at 12:00pm
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Hi! For everyone sending Christmas stockings to the TR they have posted the address. Please don’t ship until next week though. *****The Box number has been added****
Mailing address
Our contact is the Command Master Chief of the ship and we will be mailing everything to him.
CMDCM Andrew V. Frederick
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN71)
Unit 100250 Box 03
FPO AP 96632
Finally, please do not mail anything before next week. As mentioned before, the Command does not have the storage space to hold gifts. Thanks to everyone for all of your help!!!
I think they are supposed to say Navy for Moms Holiday Project on all sides of shipping carton.
****Another thing i forgot to mention for anyone that has never mailed a package to a military address. You must have a customs form for each package. ****
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