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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 McFAUL (DDG 74)
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Anyone with a loved one on the USS McFaul. Let's share, encourage, & support one another.
Members: 26
Latest Activity: Apr 24, 2015
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Comment by TwoForTheNavy on June 11, 2014 at 9:16pm
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HI my daughter will be serving on the McFaul soon and I'm wondering if there is any current news on this Destroyer.
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Comment by sarah on May 14, 2014 at 7:36pm
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Hi all,
my son has been on the McFaul since October; the McFaul FB page is pretty inactive and mostly has postings from people who have served on it - it's not much of a family page; the FRG hasn't yet responded to my request to join and it's been months - the word from a wife of a sailor on the McFaul was that the FRG wasn't very active or responsive; there are a number of McFaul moms on the Norfolk Moms FB page and we try to keep up with one another there - we've discussed putting together a separate McFaul moms FB page but haven't moved on that yet - you can always contact me for information - PM me on FB, Sarah Dangelantonio, and I'll tell you what I know :-D
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Comment by eeyoregirl ship 14 div 031 on May 14, 2014 at 6:53pm
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i just tried to request for the facebook group for McFaul and it is unavailable... Is that the only group for this ship? My son will be headed to Norforlk soon and this is his ship assignment... Thanks for any info. I did join the Norfolk moms page on facebook.
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Comment by Vickyrun on November 29, 2013 at 1:10pm
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Hi all, my daughter Chrissy recently joined this ship. She is an FC. Her first deployment was with the USS Donald Cook.
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our sailor is on the McFaul - we're figuring things out as we go - do know how you feel about not knowing everything/enough - glad to share what we've learned so far (our son has been in Norfolk for about a month now)
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Comment by NLVSailorsMom on November 8, 2013 at 11:08pm
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Hello, My son boarded the USS McFaul 2-2013, just graduated BC 12-2012. We are new to the military side of the world, as our son is the first in our family history to enlist. We are very proud of him. I feel like I'm in the dark most of the time, looking for others to share and comfort my worries with. Thanks.
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our son just finished at GL and reports to the McFaul in Norfolk in a couple of weeks - any information about what to expect when he arrives or what we can do before he flies down to make the transition go smoothly? this is his first duty assignment as he just PIR'ed on 9/13/13 - thanks all!
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Comment by GRITS on May 14, 2013 at 1:51am
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I know you are glad to have him with you for a time! Congrats to him on his job change. May God bless your son as he takes on this new adventure! My son has completed those two deployments with yours and I think he is looking at other possibilities as his 6 years will be up in 2014. Please convey our family's gratitude to your son for his time on the McFaul and our continued gratitude for his service to our country.
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@Mom in the OC, do you me underway as in Out to sea?
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My son is newly aboard.
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