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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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Navy Moms sharing their faith and prayers in support of our Sailors.
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Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on March 10, 2009 at 9:17am
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I was checking out an email I got about Tiger Woods at the inauguration on www.snopes.com this morning and came across the information about the movie Corpus Christi that was mentioned earlier here. The movie is an urban legend--it doesn't exist at least as it was rumored to be. Happily, the story about Tiger is true--and it's a good one. Go to snopes and enter Corpus Christi or Tiger Woods in the search to read about them.
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Comment by Melissa (Tucson) on February 24, 2009 at 10:46pm
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Hi Kathryn! Glad you found us here. I've had the Ike in my prayers, you and Joyce!
I like your idea of what your son could give up for lent....I'll have to shoot Matt an email and drop him a few suggestions....lol
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Congratulation Trish! To you and to the soon to be parents. Prayers and Blessings for the baby!
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Wanda: Congratulations to you and your new Sailor! Blessings to Joshua as he makes his way to Gulfport. Wasn't PIR just awesome!!??!!
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And blessings to you Wanda! :) I love that you remember us!
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Mary: What part of AZ are you going to? We'll have to try and get together. I no longer work so I'm very flexible....
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Good Morning Wanda and blessings to you on this fine NAVY day!
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I was lucky and got a 45 minute call from Matt yesterday afternoon. Doesn't it just warm your heart to hear their voice?? :)
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Norma: If you've got the time, you can find a lot of funny Navy Boot Camp jokes on the internet. Right before the recruits have "lights out" they receive their mail. A lot of them share jokes with the rest. It's nice to think we can lighten their day a little and put them to sleep with a smile on their face..... :)
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Welcome Norma:
Never did so much crying in my life as I did when my son left for boot camp. Make it a point to write her a long letter everyday. That will be the thing that connects her with you and her home. I would sit at the computer and just ramble on about anything and everything. And that's what Matt wanted. Just a little "home" in a very different place. You will learn to live from Wednesday to Wednesday, that's when the mailman will deliver your weekly letter. And after about 3 or 4 weeks she'll start calling at least once a week.
As Moms, we miss our kids a lot more than they miss us. And I say that only because they are too busy to think about home.
You will get through this. You can find websites that will tell you what your daughter will be doing every week. And when you write, she'll know you've been reading up on boot camp!
There are many Moms on this site who have gone before you and we're here to offer all the love and support you need. Just ask :)
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