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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.
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- Graduation Info
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Navy Speak
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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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SaSSY (Sponsor a Sailor @ Sea, Y'all)
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A 501 c3 non-profit org. that exists to help deployed sailors while they are away from their loved ones.
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Website: http://www.besassy.org
Members: 31
Latest Activity: Aug 16, 2023
Whether it is your son, daughter, wife, husband, boyfriend, cousin, brother, sister, mother, father, etc. that is away on a deployment, they all enjoy getting mail. It's a way that they can stay connected to family and friends. The most frequent response we get from the Sailors is that receiving mail from the home front is a huge morale boost!
SASSY is more than 80 moms strong with another 50 SASSY people (classrooms, teachers, civic groups, family, friends and just true blue Americans) who have come together to be a part of Sponsor A Sailor at Sea, Y'all (SASSY). We've made some excellent contacts on the Big E as well as the other ships in her carrier strike group, from the Ship's company to the airwing. And now the USS GHW Bush! Through the Chief's Mess, we receive names of junior sailors who are in need of support - from cards and letters to the occasional care package - and reminded that their service to the country and their personal sacrifices are appreciated, and that someone back home is thinking about that sailor.
Many sailors don't receive much, if any, encouragement from home. Sometimes its because the sailor is truly alone, or is estranged from his family, who may not be supportive of his/her decision to join the military, or perhaps because of the family's financial situation, it isn't possible to send the care packages that make life a little better.
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Comment by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours) on November 5, 2011 at 9:22am
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Robin - I know exactly what you mean!!! My one that emails everyday calls me his Legion Mom!!! I feel like I have adopted a son for life now! And boy are those emails we write back and forth long! hahahah.... he said his buddies kid him cause they know when he is writing me cause its always a "book" they say! I just adore him and my other 3 too! One of the other ones emailed me and told me that him and his department are going to send ME a thankyou care package next week.... can you believe that hahahahahahah! I was soo tickled.. Ive never gotten anything but a letter or an email which is perfectly sufficient of course!!!!!!!!! So yes I agree... really makes the empty next easier to handle! Now when they all get home stateside.... Ill start sending the home baked goodies I have promised them all!
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Robin... kewl... yea my one sailor gave me the home address... so just in case I dont get the others... Ill remember that! Our Riders are trying to figure out a way to buy a ticket and fly our one sailor (the one who emails me every day) here to TX to be with us for a weekend! After the first of the year! I cant wait... he really wants to come too... so we will figure it out! Arent these kids just the greatest! yummy authentic mexican ... oh man... awesome! =0P
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Carole... glad your surgery went well!!! Glad you are recovering! Hey... Imma send you an email shortly!
Its funny cause the one Sailor who emails me every day... has a buddy who is a loner... and has no one.... well, he gave me his address and we shipped him three boxes hahahaha! He received them and my buddy said that when he found out that he had mail... he held the one box like it was a bomb and said... uhhhhh... I got mail are you sure????????? hehehehe! awesome!
Hi Robin!!!! How are you sista!??? Imma start sending the kids cookies and home made stuff when they come back stateside... that is if I can get an address to send them too... I have my one Sailor's home address (we sent his wife a gift card - she deploys 4 weeks BEFORE our boys on the Bush come home =0( )... so Im going to ask my other three who email me from time to time... so I can keep the love going!!! the two that I have not heard from at all, I don't know what to do once they are back stateside?????
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Man oh man.... I finally heard from sailor number 3 of 5!!!! Soooooooo sweet! Apologized for not getting back to me sooner... I love my boys! (and of course girls)!!!!!!
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Comment by Rhonda on October 28, 2011 at 1:36am
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Finally heard from my sailor today!!! She was very thankful for our group & wante everyone to know it!! It was a very short letter just 1/2 a page but thats ok she said they were very busy & didn't have much timne. Now to gather up a box of goodies for her & get it sent before the dead line!!!
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Terry... hahaha.... Im sure anything you send will be great... one of my boys asked for those plastic hooks for the inside of their lockers for towels or uniforms... Wal mart.... and other than that... they love it all... Hawaiian punch individual powder mixes... the water on board is gross... he loves my Hawaiian punch indiv.. oh and beef jerkie..
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Robin... they return sometime mid December Im told.. no exact date yet of course... Im sending mine out Tuesday just to be safe... great minds think alike!!! hahahahahah
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Oh of course Im talking about the kids on the Bush.... sorry.. about the cut off date for October 28th...
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Robin.... kewl!!!!!!
I get emails daily from one of my boys and occasionally from one of the other... three of them ... not a word... But Ill tell you... I look forward to those emails hahah every morning! Yea... we been sending two to each at the first of the month.. he already has special requests for the next boxes.... OH HEY rememeber do not send anything after 28th of Oct... the COs told the kids that mail and email will be an issue after first week of November so ... better mail it soon sista.... =0) Hey you know what he loved the best.... The Axe scrubbie and shower wash... just an idea for you! Oh and hooks to stick on the door of his locker to hang his towel and or uniforms...
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Woooooooow its aweful quiet in here???
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