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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**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).

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RTC Graduation

**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.

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PCSing/ Moving

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Lets talk about moving, real estate, how to pack, tips, horror stories, the good, the bad, DITY, Semi DITY and commercial moves; and share helpful websites.

Website: http://eek-moving-again.blogspot.com/
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Latest Activity: Dec 26, 2017

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Comment by Anti M on October 2, 2011 at 7:30pm: Then follow what the class said... but have all receipts on hand just in case.

Comment by Brittany proud Navy Wife :) on October 2, 2011 at 6:05pm: Okay, Now I am confused. All you ladies are talking about reimbursements and turning in receipts etc. My husband and I just took a class and are moving in a week or two and were told we didnt need to turn anything in but the weigh tickets, that they dont do reimbursements bcuz its covered in the 95% of a gov move, and milage counted, and your per diam. In the class we were told to hold on to receipts for our records only???

Comment by Brittany proud Navy Wife :) on October 2, 2011 at 6:03pm: You can also get the dla, milage, and per diam up front all u have to do is request it.

By doing it early I would only be worried about it costing more money than they are giving you - when you set the move up it will tell you how much you are going to get. Also I would be worried about getting there and not having a place to go. They might push back when he is allowed to leave (my BIL is at goose creek and they ended up pushing all the arrivals back a week before they could go home) or when he will have a house etc. Things can change. I wouldnt leave or have my stuff picked up until he was given the okay.

Comment by Brittany proud Navy Wife :) on October 2, 2011 at 5:58pm: Bandito's - Goosecreek is diff than most bcuz its all nukes. they have classes starting every two weeks. Theyll actually walk him thru everything, allow him to come home and get you and move you. You dont get "reimbursed" and you dont have to turn in reciepts. For a dity move (now a PPM) the government pays you 95% of whatever it would cost them to move you - this includes milage. They will give him 60% of the money upfront if he ask for it, and the other 40% when he turns in the weight tickets.

You also get DLA, milage for driving your vehicle, and per diem. Again you dont have to turn in gas reciepts because they dont reimburse you. The sailors per diem is like 170, then like 80 (close estimations I dont remember the exact amount) for the wife, then like 60 for any kids. This is meant to cover food and any hotel stays. milage is like .21 cents per mile i believe. All this is thru a different department than moving your stuff.

The only thing you have to turn reciepts in for our if you stay in a hotel when you arrive. You get ten days TLE and they will reimburse you for staying in a hotel at your new location while you look for a place to stay. but on goose creek you go straight into base housing.

they are really good about getting everything together and walking the student thru this process there.

Comment by Kac46047 on October 2, 2011 at 11:36am: umm the paperwork we submitted before the move was only to get the moving allowance i think its based on how far you have to drive. We did a move from Philly to Norfolk. We had to weight the truck before its full and after. After we finished the entire move we submitted paperwork with all the gas reciepts and weigh tickets and the expenses of the truck i think. Dity move is stressfull and a lot confusing if you dont get the right procedures. Like i said my husband went to a class maybe your Sr could see about the Dity move class before he starts the move. It only takes aout an hour

Comment by Bandito's Mom on October 2, 2011 at 4:34am: SR is in Boot Camp now and is going to Goose Creek for A school. We have heard that he will go there and within days pick out housing and by Wednesday after arriving be sent home for his DITY move. DIL is planning to use Help U Move and have them at their apartment Tuesday. So that she can be packed and on the road as soon as he arrives. Is she jeapordizing reimbursement if she doesn't wait for his paperwork? Tuesday is streetcleaning day and the only time we think we can get parking for the truck.

Comment by Kac46047 on October 1, 2011 at 6:57pm: My husband also had to take a class on how to Dity move. It was like an hour , they taught him all the logistics and paperwork side of thinks. We moved about 3 weeks ago and just subbmitted our packet for reinbursment a couple of days ago.

Comment by esther22ship02div932PIR7-1 on October 1, 2011 at 6:55pm: Thank you so much!! I've been going through those links for the past couple hours. Once we get my husbands orders in hand I can start the process, we're also working on finally getting a poa, I know we should have done that long ago. One other question though, alot of places on those links it says to contact your local tmo or jppso. I'm not sure who to contact. My husband is at A school, would it be someone by him? Or by me (the location the move will be made from). Thank you so much, I really do value the information you provide!!!