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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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.
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Comment by nickolasryan on April 21, 2012 at 4:52pm
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Thank You all very much it is hard not knowing but i guess i will just wing it haha.All your input really helps me
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Comment by claudia on April 21, 2012 at 11:23am
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dear nicolasryan,there is absolutly no guarentees from this moment on...we have had to clear our schedules in days not hour blocks things change at a moments notice even liberty...my son got a weekend off we picked him up drove 2 hours home someone messed up on their time off and instead of all the wonderful plans to spend time with our son we had to take him straight back to his ship...so our time and i thank God for every second was spent in the car...im off to fleet week so excited but i know i will take what i can get...
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Comment by Maria ( 9/132 - HM- 04-2011) on April 21, 2012 at 10:17am
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Nickolasryan, planning your Tavel is not easy. They should leave Saturday early morning, that is what has happen for the last year. Reality is that your SR will get travel orders just a few days before. When our son PIR we left for GL on Thursday and he did not know until the last minus when he was leaving. Welcome to the Navy, as everyone has told me hurry up and wait. Enjoy PIR it is awesome.
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Comment by GoatLady (USS Theodore Roosvelt) on April 21, 2012 at 10:12am
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You don't know until the day of graduation what your sailor's plans are so there is really no way to plan. The hotels are use to this. We made our reservations through Saturday night just in case. Our son left Saturday afternoon. He/she usually finds out the day of graduation. We checked out Saturday morning and the hotel was OK with that - no extra fees or anything - no problem.
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Hello everyone i was just wondering if anyone can tell me how do you know for sure when your child will leave after basic? My paper work said maybe the day after graduation but how do you plan for your reservations and such. Help me if you can thank you so very much
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Thank you so much for the comments it really means alot to me
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Comment by Kathy-Paige's mom on April 14, 2012 at 2:01pm
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A big welcome hunters mom!!
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Comment by HuntersMom on April 14, 2012 at 1:37pm
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Hi Everyone! New to this site and would love to hear of anyones news!!
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Comment by Pearl Harbor MA on April 13, 2012 at 9:49pm
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Prayers for my sailor son please. He fell and dislocated his knee again! On crutches and in knee brace, has to have an MRI done, possible ACL tear...do they ever really grow up? :)
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Comment by veteranmom on April 13, 2012 at 7:15pm
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Nickolasmom you will be so happy you did. The first week is the hardest for you and I spent every waking hour on this site for the first week after he left. Write him every day so when you get the address he will get a lot of mail. Once you get the address and meet other moms in his division time will fly. Oh and it's ok to cry every day I don't care what the dads say. Oh and change your username to something anonymous before you get "spanked". (lol just kiddin ftlw )
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