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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.
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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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USS Bataan LHD-5
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Group for family members of Sailors who are on the USS Bataan (LHD-5)
Members: 144
Latest Activity: Aug 25, 2019
Granted, we may be a bit limited to what we can discuss openly online, but if nothing else, may be a good way to connect and network off-line as well.
Make sure to not disclose advance ship movements or other OPSEC issues.
My son is an FC2 on this ship.
Discussion Forum
Looking for Moms and Family Members who have Sailors on the USS Bataan
Started by Navy for Moms Admin. Last reply by mamabear Jul 13, 2017. 55 Replies 7 Likes
Possible Deployment, USS Bataan 2014
Started by GoNavy. Last reply by Yasminie5 Dec 20, 2014. 17 Replies 4 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by ckmom on November 20, 2012 at 8:58pm
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Welcome SusanG and Juliefrog68, glad to see some action on here, been awhile.
My son has been on the ship since March 2011. He is an AS.
I was so glad to see my son on TV, he was sitting behind the basketball hoop.
he really enjoyed the whole trip at Florida.
Sandra AM how is everything going, been awhile!
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Comment by Stephanie on November 20, 2012 at 8:03pm
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That's odd Barbara. My husband was at the game.
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Comment by Juliefrog68 on November 20, 2012 at 6:35pm
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He went onboard just after they came back. I wish they would post more pics from Jacksonville. He said they had cameras in their faces for days. But still not alot of pics of our Sailors posted.
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Comment by SusanGMom of 2 on November 16, 2012 at 11:49pm
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Yes, he told me that when he came home in between A school and going to VA. I am not sure what my son's Division. I knew that there were things that I needed to ask him but when he got there it was in the middle of Sandy.
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Hi. My son is on the has been on the Bataan since March. He is in 1st Div Deck Crew.
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Hi and Thank you Sandra AM Mom - This might sound weird but I am not sure what his rate is. I know he went in to bootcamp as a pac seaman, not what he was given and signed up for but they took his rate away from him half-way through DEP.
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Hi all, my son has been on the Bataan for about 2 weeks now. He arrived right after Sandy blew through. So far he likes the ship and all his mate's.
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Comment by justme2007 on October 30, 2012 at 10:56am
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Our family knows absoultely nothing about the Navy so thank God for this page. We are an Air Force family that goes back to my son's great grand-father being an Original Tuskegee Airman. We welcome the Navy with open arms since my son chose to be apart of the Navy. LOL I know nothing about rank, orders, set-up, travel, just nothing. Like the days when we moved to Germany and I had to learn German because we lived on the economy....just didn't know a thing.
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Just found out my son got his veral orders and will be stationed on the USS Bataan. So happy he is now gonna be so very close to home!!!
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Comment by prdmomfrmnaples on September 22, 2012 at 10:28am
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Just want to say I feel so much better, my son loves it I can tell by his voice I was
Just a nervous mom , I forget they're men now . Thank you for being so nice to a
"newbe" .
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