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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
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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Started by dougsmom. Last reply by NavyMomLinda(sh09div340) Feb 22, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes
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Comment by Tina RH on April 9, 2011 at 2:29pm
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If you are serving overseas during tax filing season, you are automatically granted a 2-month tax extension ― with no paperwork required and no tax payments or penalties assessed. If you need more than two months to file your return, you can e-file IRS Form 4868 onlineusing the FileLater system and get an income tax extension until October.
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Comment by dougsmom on April 9, 2011 at 1:48pm
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I wonder if you ladies can answer a question for me. I have asked my son if he has received a W-2 form and does he need me to prepare his tax return for him. He said they will get an automatic extension to file. Do any of you know what to do about this? Thank you so much for your help.
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Comment by gmaof6 on April 7, 2011 at 4:50pm
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Please send to me also.
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Comment by Lrose27 on April 6, 2011 at 6:51pm
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Hi Theresa, could you please message me your address so that I could send a letter. Thank you!
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Comment by AMMom on April 3, 2011 at 9:05am
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Last year we went to the Nauticus Museum. It is a hands on kinda thing. I had 3 teenagers with me and they all enjoyed it. Nauticus.org
This time my daughter and I are going to Williamsburg and Yorktown.
We are dropping off my husband and son in NC and going on up the coast to wait for the ship.
Can't wait to hug my sailor!!
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Comment by brendaw1976 on April 2, 2011 at 10:01pm
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My husband is going on the tiger cruise, but my parents, my other kids and I will be staying behind in Norfolk to wait for the ship to come in then. I guess we'll need to find things to do around town besides swimming at the hotel pool! Has anyone toured around Norfolk before?
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Comment by jacquec1253 on March 26, 2011 at 11:40am
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Thank you Sperlonga, I didn't realize I had said anything wrong either.
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Comment by sperlonga on March 25, 2011 at 2:20pm
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Huh? Did someone say something that wasn't public info?
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According to my husband, retired Navy, the relief and the ship they're relieving stay together in the arena for a few weeks before the relieved ship heads back. It takes a couple weeks for a ship to get over there.
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Do we have any idea if the fleet is going to head home since according to CNN there is a new fleet headed out to relieve them?
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