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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:
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
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USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41) Family and Friends
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Location: Little Creek VA
Members: 24
Latest Activity: Jun 20, 2019
HISTORY
Although the first ship to carry the name Whidbey Island, there was at one time a ship on Navy rolls named USS Whidbey (AG-141), a small transport purchased from the U. S. Army and servicing U. S. Trust Territories in the late 1940s.
Whidbey Island, the first ship in a class designed specifically to interface with the Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), assisted in the operational and developmental testing of the amphibious assault craft from July to September 1985 and again in May and July 1986.
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Comment by Nikki13 on March 23, 2011 at 10:06am
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Thank you all for the lovely welcome. I got a tremendous gift yesterday, an hour long phone call with my sailor girl! Weezer Be, I would sit with you, we could share the Kleenex! It is comforting to know you all are out there. My civilian friends are very kind, but I know they don't really understand what we're going through. I know each of you get it, thank you for being there!
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Comment by kati on March 23, 2011 at 9:34am
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We made a quick trip to Virginia on Monday, and are leaving today. We were thankful to spend the evening with our son. Weezer--we saw your son on the tour of the ship.
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Hi Everyrone, thought I better introduce myself, & stop just lurking around ;) My name is Nikki. I am a proud momma of one amazing sailor girl, who resides on this ship. Weezer Be how fortunate you were able to have a visit. I too wish they didn't have to go, but I did find a bit of comfort in your words regarding ship & crew.
Happy to meet you all, it's nice knowing there are other moms out there who will understand just what it is to go through this experience.
Godspeed to all our fine sailors!
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Hello all. I am the mother of a sailor on this ship. Hope to meet some other moms here too.
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Comment by momof8 on June 22, 2010 at 1:41am
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Yes, I've heard that too, I'm close friends with a woman who grew up on the island, her father worked at the shipping docks and the captains of the ships that went by and saw her playing on the beach would drop special things from the places they had been overboard to float in to her. Sounds like a fairytale!
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Thank you for telling me!
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Hi there Whidbey Island Group~ Momof8 from Eastern WA....Do any of you who are wives of sailors know gals who offer or might be willing to offer day care for a family on the Island? A young mom has just passed away suddenly leaving a baby and a preschooler and the father is desparate for good child care. My son has PIR in GL next week and I have found ths an awesome support and thought this might be a way to locate someone who could help! Please either friend me or comment here, I'll follow this group for a while. Thank you so much for any leads you ,might have!
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Comment by Navymom70 on March 15, 2010 at 10:18am
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My daughter has recently finished A-school in Chicago and has been stationed on the U.S.S. Whidbey Island : ) She is home right now for a brief visit. I am so proud of her!
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