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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
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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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USS Denver LPD-9
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Anyone with a loved one aboard the USS Denver
Website: http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/lpd9/Pages/default.aspx
Members: 23
Latest Activity: May 24, 2014
Discussion Forum
Phones
Started by jvillenavymom. Last reply by jvillenavymom Dec 9, 2013. 2 Replies 0 Likes
My son has orders to join the USS Denver in Feb. 2014. I am so new to all of this. Does he need to buy a phone when he gets to Sasebo or does he take his phone from hear. Also, can he take a Ipad…Continue
Phones
Started by jvillenavymom. Last reply by cameronleigh Dec 7, 2013. 1 Reply 0 Likes
My son has orders to join the USS Denver in Feb. 2014. I am so new to all of this. Does he need to buy a phone when he gets to Sasebo or does he take his phone from hear. Also, can he take a Ipad…Continue
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Comment by cameronleigh on March 22, 2013 at 11:09pm
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Hello, my son graduated today from Bootcamp. He already has his orders to ship May for this ship. I'm glad to be a part of this!
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Comment by Chef slow burns Mom on February 26, 2013 at 8:56am
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Navybluemom i guess they are trying to show that they have left the nest, and will continue to get along fine without us. We have planted the seeds and watered them for years. We have also set the path for them, even placed them on that path. It is now up to them to stay on that path. They are just trying to be responsible young men. Besides overseas is a great experience for them, and the pay is much better than what they would receive by staying in the states.
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My son leaves for sasebo japan on saturday 2/16/13 and will be on the uss Denver. I will miss him Dearly, he has been in the Navy three months now.
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Comment by Ps&BsMom on February 3, 2013 at 4:32pm
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Oh, and I didn't realize the pic of him was sideways til today...haha.
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My son has been calling and skyping fairly regular. He calls to talk to his baby brother, although I want to believe he is calling to talk to me. Also facebook helps a lot, he has been posting photos so we all kinda follow along. To go from never being away from my son to have him 6,480 miles away is killing me. I'm so happy that our children/loved ones made the choices they did. We are all soooo proud I'm sure. Thank you to your families for your sacrifices. GO NAVY!!!
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Comment by Arwen on February 2, 2013 at 3:28am
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I rarely heard from my son while he was in Japan and on the Denver. I got maybe four calls or letters from him in the first year. He was too into his new life. I tended to only hear from him when things went wrong, or when he remembered I exist.
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My son is new to the USS DENVER, a week now. He loves Japan.
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They will probably do a "hull swap" when it comes time to decommission the Denver. Basically, a crew from the US will sail their nice new ship to Japan, take all their personal stuff to the Denver, while the Denver sailors switch to the new ship. Then the crew from the other ship sails the Denver back to the US to be decommissioned. That's what they have done with the past few Sasebo ships.
Basically, the Navy doesn't want to pay for the families of two ships to move overseas. So they leave everyone right where they're at. Only the ships change places.
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Comment by zStratMom on December 27, 2012 at 12:05am
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Hey - water restored . . . no more port-a-potties on the barge.
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Hi, my son is no longer on the Denver, but he has good memories of his time onboard.
Just a note- as of last weekend's official retirement of the USS Enterprise, the USS Denver became the oldest actively commissioned ship in the Navy. There are only two older - the USS Constitution and the USS Pueblo - which hold special commissions.
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