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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
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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USS Bonhomme Richard(LHD6)
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This group is for moms as well as others with a loved one aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard.
Members: 84
Latest Activity: Dec 18, 2019
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Discussion Forum
Hello From a Newbie
Started by lieu2010. Last reply by Harly Sep 7, 2013. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Hello All - I'm new to this page and to this group and thought I should tell you all a bit about myself. I have 3 kids. My oldest son, a Marine. My middle child (another boy) is my Sailor. He's an…Continue
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Comment by hunter's mom kyann HOOYAH on January 22, 2014 at 11:32pm
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Welcome, pmass. Yes technology is so great to have when they are so far away.
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Comment by pmass5958 on January 21, 2014 at 5:58pm
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Hello everyone,
I am a Navy Mom. My son just started C school today. He is an IS and will be graduating in 6 weeks. His orders after that are to the USS BHR. He is looking forward to whatever the Navy has in store for him. He is my youngest child so I am having mixed feelings about him being on the other side of the world. Thank God for texting, facebook, facetime, skype and emails. Looking forward to getting to know you all.
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welcome, boo2u2. my son is currently on the BHR. your son and all his buddies will love the packages! i try to send 1 a month, but i have slowed down. :( getting ready to send him a valentine box! he told me after i sent 2 boxes for CHRISTmas that he is having trouble finding where to put everything. so, for now, i am just send consumables. candy, and other food i know he likes.
i miss you all as i haven't been on here very much lately. just been crazy at work and home and busy at church. hubby, daughter, and i are going to be part of the Easter program this year. we are so excited. it's a drama. not that we are actors, but we're gonna give it a try. hope you all are doing well.
enjoying winter weather here in OHIO!!!
take care!
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Comment by Kim on January 9, 2014 at 3:16pm
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I just reread this page.
Hello all, my son served on the USS Essex (now BHR) and is now a navy recruiter. Boo2u2, he was an FC also. They work in a shop and he had a spot there to store goodies. They loved my jam and fudge in his shop. He also had use of a computer in the shop, so he didn't have to line up to send me emails.
He married a girl from Sasebo and she is travelling this Saturday to Sasebo and staying with family for a month. He could not get the time off because he just arrived at his new job in Middletown, NY. They want to go next Christmas.
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Yes, they do cgloddy and they really look forward to it. Supplies are sent to the ship often.
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Comment by cgloddy on January 9, 2014 at 1:27pm
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Hello, I am new to this page, my son just arrived late Decemeber, to the Bonhomme Richard. This is his first duty assignment, since his PIR was 11/08. I had a question, when they are deployed, do they still receive their mail?
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Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on December 26, 2013 at 11:17pm
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Katie loves mint too. I made cookies with the andes 'chips' and one of the HT1s wanted to make them himself and couldn't find them in the NEX on base, so I mailed him a couple packages. When a pan of brownies comes out of the oven, you can line up andes on top and wait a few minutes, after they melt you can lightly swirl them to make the topping. Have fun baking!
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Comment by boo2u2 (Ship09/Div248) on December 26, 2013 at 11:05pm
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MarianneKT's Mom - he is an FC3. Thanks for the information. So glad we can send packages. He LOVES thin mints and we wanted to send a couple of boxes.
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boo2u2 - By all means, yes! Send the care packages, letters, etc. My daughter was on the USS Essex/BHR for just over 3 years. I would send Katie packages no less than once a month. The guys in her 'shop' loved it. I would even take requests of cookies/bars/candy that they wanted. A lot of sailors don't get packages and homebaked goods from home!
What rate is your son? My daughter is a DC. She is now on the USS George HW Bush (CVN 77)
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Hi ladies, my son just boarded this ship on 12/18/13. I hope he likes it. We miss hi. already. Can we send a care package (i.e. cookies, letters, photos, etc)? I know space is probably an issue an well wnd food might too much too. I look forward to getting to know you all. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.
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