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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:

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:

RTC Graduation

**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 Mobile Bay

For all the significant others, family members, and friends of sailors serving aboard the USS Mobile Bay

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Latest Activity: Oct 8, 2018

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Comment by vansmom on November 8, 2011 at 12:34pm
YIKES!  :)  That's a lot of love! 
Comment by vansmom on November 8, 2011 at 12:17pm
Someone also said they sit on a pallet somewhere in California....maybe that's where the city name come in to play?  Who knows?
Comment by vansmom on November 8, 2011 at 12:17pm
Yay!!!!!  Glad to hear he got them!  I know the first ones I sent my son took forever and I thought for sure they'd end up coming back.....I kept emailing him asking him if he gave me the right address because he had no boxes and others were getting them......it took sooooo long....I think it's just the mail, now I know it takes 4 weeks.  So just know the time frame.....it's just the mail.  The post office had told me 2 weeks!!!!!!!!!!  Yeah right!!!!!!!  Ha!
Comment by chris'smom ship 14 div 200 on November 8, 2011 at 12:03pm
hahaha! i think you're right, sandy!!! and thanks for the update. so glad yours got through. i'm going to resend this very day!!!
Comment by chris'smom ship 14 div 200 on November 8, 2011 at 11:07am
Thank you, vansmom. Yes, I did fill out the customs form, pretty much the exact way you did!  Maybe I made some kind of mistake somewhere along the line. I'll get this figured out today. Let you know what happens.  ;-)
Comment by vansmom on November 8, 2011 at 10:58am

YOu can ask for extra customs forms at the desk and they'll give you a handful so next time you don;t have to fill them out while you are standing there......and just make sure you fill in every line with whatever they ask for so they don;t open the box somewhere along the route.  I always put "none" in some of the boxes that ask for restrictions and put "air" not 'surface".  Hope this helps!  :)

Comment by vansmom on November 8, 2011 at 10:55am
Did you fill out the customs form?  That is the biggest pain!  They always want every line filled in too, even if you don't know, just fill in whatever....I always just list booksm, videos, treats from parents on the description line and make up a price!  :)
Comment by chris'smom ship 14 div 200 on November 8, 2011 at 10:51am
I wonder why the post office sent my box back, then, because that's the address i used. I'll have to give them what-for! I am soooo disappointed!
Comment by vansmom on November 8, 2011 at 10:49am
Sandy's address! :)
Comment by vansmom on November 8, 2011 at 10:48am
That is the correct address that I send my son's stuff to and he always gets it in about 4 weeks.  The one you have put up.
 

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