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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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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Moms of Snipe sailors.
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Latest Activity: Oct 26, 2017
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Comment by KarenL on November 24, 2010 at 4:08pm
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Thank you so much for the advice!! I am excited to tell him about the email and he will have alot more information for his next voyage which make it less stressful for him hopefully.
We are from the East coast and he is not missing the weather one bit!!
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Comment by Rhonda(EMmom) on November 23, 2010 at 7:32pm
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Karen---have your son contact one of the IT guys on the ship and set him up an email account on the ship. He then can email you from his ship if it's up and running. Sometimes they don't turn it on if it's a short trip. Sad thing is, there is no cell towers out at sea!! But when he gets to a port he can call. My son is also in SD and loves it there, hope your son does too. Good luck to him and welcome to the group.
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Hi everyone! I just found this snipe group and thought I'd join. My son just traveled to his ship this past weekend and will be sailing with it back to San Diego. He had a lot of nerves for this first trip! Any advice on communication while they are on the ship or is it back to the no news is good news?
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Welcome to all of the newbees here-- Glad to have you aboard!! :)
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Pammie- they are named after an Engineer Officer, John Snipe, who stuck up for his men. You can look it up and read the story, it's fasicinating. Welcome to the group!!
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Comment by My2Sailors on August 20, 2010 at 8:09pm
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Hi all! My son is a MM & is in BESS school in Groton, CT. My husband was also a GSM when he was in the Navy & was also a snipe. Can anyone tell me what the term snipe means & why they are called that.
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Hello everyone, I see no one has been posting for awhile. What a shame. I thought I'd give an update; my son is doing very well out in SD and loves it. He's working long days getting the ship ready for a short deployment. He told me last night that the CO wants to send him to two more c-schools, I think the man is impressed with him. One will be back at GL and the other in SD.
Marianne--there is only 204 men on the ship and 16 of those are officers, so pretty small but he will move up faster.
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Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on June 25, 2010 at 8:43pm
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How big is the Rentz? I'm not even sure what kind of ship it is. Katie is on the USS Essex and there are 1,200 sailors on the ship and only 45 moms in the group and less than 10 that post pretty regularly. Wish more would comment. Hopefully you find some Moms.
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Marianne- not yet!! They must not be on N4Ms. The group is there to join, not for lack of me trying to find others! Maybe one day. My sister joined! LOL :)
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Rhonda - were you successful yet at finding any other Moms with sailors on the USS Rentz?
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