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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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 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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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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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Type Duty Codes -Overseas and sea duty screening
Ref: MILPERSMAN 1306-102
Five types of duty designations or “types” are used to identify commands for establishment of sea/shore rotation.
(1) Shore Duty (Sea/Shore Type Duty Code "1"): Duty performed in United States (U.S.) (including Hawaii and Anchorage, Alaska) land-based activities where members are not required to be absent from the corporate limits of their duty station in excess of 150 days per year, or long-term schooling of 18 or more months.
(2) Sea Duty (Sea/Shore Type Duty Code "2"): Duty performed in commissioned vessels and deployable squadrons homeported in the U.S. (including Hawaii and Alaska); U.S. land-based activities and embarked staffs, which require members to operate away from their duty station in excess of 150 days per year.
(3) Overseas Remote Land-based Sea Duty (Sea/Shore Type Duty Code "3"): Duty performed in a land-based activity, which does not require members to be absent more than 150 days per year, but is credited as sea duty for rotational purposes only due to the relative undesirability of the geographic area.
(4) Overseas Sea Duty (Sea/Shore Type Duty Code "4"): Duty performed in commissioned vessels and deployable squadrons homeported overseas; overseas land-based activities and embarked staffs, which require members to operate away from their duty station in excess of 150 days per year.
(5) Overseas Shore Duty (Sea/Shore Type Duty Code "6"): Duty performed in overseas land-based activities, which are credited as shore duty for rotational purposes. Members are not required to be absent from corporate limits of their duty station in excess of 150 days per year.
Each of these types of duty is credited as sea or shore duty for rotation purposes. The types of duty are reflected in each command's Enlisted Distribution and Verification Report (EDVR) as a sea/shore code (SSC). These codes are assigned and when required, changed by Pers-451.
When the mission, functions, or the relative desirability of the location of an activity changes, it may be appropriate to submit a request for change in Type Duty Code to NAVPERSCOM, Distribution Management and Procedures Branch (PERS-451) via the appropriate chain of command. The appropriate immediate superior in the chain of command (ISIC) and manpower claimant must endorse all requests. Requests will be returned without action if not accompanied by the proper endorsements.
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