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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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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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Comment by Rhonda(EMmom) on December 8, 2010 at 8:22pm
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Mary n Jesse--no matter how belittling they think their job is, they are all equally as important. One couldn't work without the other. The Navy would not run without all of them working hard at what they do. Sometimes we just have to remind our sailors of this and besides as a bodily function we all have, tell him it's job security! lol
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Comment by Mary n Jesse on December 6, 2010 at 10:43pm
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(this story is meant to be funny...yet just a little sad...)
So, Jesse is a Snipe. He wears a "Snipes run the Navy" hat.
When he gets to Japan, and guys ask him what his job is, and he says "HT" (Hull Tech), he says that they laugh...
I asked him why. He says "Mom, I am a sh&*t chaser!!
I said, "Jesse, you do welding and firefighting and plumbing, right?"
He said, "Mom, I make sure the sh*&t gets of the ship!
He said that if a sailor comes back to the ship drunk and wets his pants and tries to flush em to hide em, he would have to "unclog" And...if he ever sees anyone smuggling soft TP onto the ship he must confiscate it immediately!
Oh my poor little snipe :)
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Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on December 4, 2010 at 4:28pm
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Hopefully things will get better for your son soon. Of course, the Essex sailors were granted 2 leave periods - one over Christmas and the other over New Years - the first all year. So, once he starts meeting his fellow sailors, some will be leaving. Of course, he will have time to settle into the ship before they head out in 2011.
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Jesse made it to Japan on December 1st. He will stay on base until the ship returns (couple of weeks). He is really really depressed. He's on hold so he has nothing to do except think about how long it will be before he sees us again. It's taking all I have to keep him thinking positively. Hope it gets better when he meets people and makes new friends.
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Thank you, Marianne. I'm ok...not great...but OK. I will give you guys updates. Off to bed, gonna be an early wake up tomorrow! Jesse says "Snipes run the Navy" But I know us moms have a hand in that! - Mary
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Mary - Jesse will be fine. My Katie traveled by herself Aprili 09 to Sasebo and has been serving on the Essex since that time. Katie is a DCFN.
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Thanks, Rhonda. I think he is all packed now. We head to the airport about 4am tomorrow. Sure is going to take a long time to get to Sasebo! With the time difference it'll be almost 2 days for him from departure to arrival!
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Comment by KarenL on November 29, 2010 at 1:26pm
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Hi Rhonda,
The holiday was quite different without our sailor at home, but we made it through. We did find out he put a post on facebook that he was in Hawaii, so I know he is safe and close to SD.
Welcome Mary n Jesse! Best of luck to your Sailor!
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Hi there, my son Jesse will be leaving for Sasebo tomorrow. He will be on the USS Essex, He is a HT (hull technician). Just wanted to say hello. It's going to be a hard couple of days, but I'm grateful for support from other Navy moms!
mary
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Karen---we are from the north and my son rubs the beautiful weather in all the time, he's always taking pictures and putting them up on facebook with snide remarks. LOL He will get a taste of snow when he comes home for Christmas though, I'll throw him in it, face first! Good luck to your son and I hope you had a wonderful holiday.
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