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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
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Comment by Kayla (Dann's Wifey) on June 18, 2010 at 10:59am
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Thanks Colleen! That is where we want to move if any is available at that time. I just can't wait to get out of this area.
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Hi Colleen my husband and I are braeking our lease from Baker Crossing (extremely bad neighborhood) and are wanting to get into Wadsworth, good choice or bad?
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Hi julie! My husband and I moved here in March, he decided he didn't want to live in base housing, well my opinion..... your son and his wife would be better off in base housing if they would want to. I'll just put it this way, we're breaking our lease the end of this month because we chose a bad area and didnt realize it! It looked nice online, and it is very nice inside but the area is a disaster. I'm sure that ther are nice places but We have just decided since we have a child that we would probably be better off on base. My husband is also stationed at NAS Oceana. Good Luck :)
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Comment by John and Yvonne on April 5, 2010 at 2:44pm
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I haven't been on here in quite some time, so I just want to make a short comment here by way of introduction. I'm a retired Navy chaplain. Yvonne and I have a "home away from home" for servicemen and women in our home on weekends. On Saturdays we get together for food fun and games. On Sundays we have a big home cooked meal after church and then we relax, watch Christian videos, have Bible studies where the guys and girls can ask questions and hopefully get some answers.
If your sons or daughters get orders to the Norfolk-Virginia Beach area and you think they might be interested in getting away from the base for a few hours, into a "real" home, with a real family, let them know about us. We'd love to invite them over. Send us a private message on here and we'll give you our contact information. We've had several Navyformoms' sailors to the house. Some Navyformoms have even visited!
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Comment by NavyLove1 on March 29, 2010 at 10:36am
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there is just me and my man right now. we do not have kids yet. does that change your reccomendation?/
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Any reccomendations to apts/houses for rent in va beach?
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Comment by Jess on February 17, 2010 at 2:51pm
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HI EVERYONE! My husband is being stationed at Oceana in about 3 weeks! were relocating from florida and still havent found a place! Ive spent hours looking at apartments/townhouses/condos online and havent been able to find anything without HORRIBLE reviews!..im not sure which areas are good and bad. Any feedback on good places to live would help tremondously! Thanks!
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My wife and I have lived in Virginia Beach for 9 1/2 years now and have only experienced one significant snowfall in those years. This month has been really different! Wow! This is what I'm used to growing up in Iowa. I just wish they would clear the main arteries through town. Oh well. It is pretty!
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Hi everybody,
I'm new to this group (though not new to Navyformoms.com).
I see several of you are new to this area. Welcome! I'm a retired Navy chaplain and am also one of the pastors at Azalea Garden Church of God. If you're looking for a really friendly, family oriented church come try us out. We'd love to meet you.
Yvonne and I also have a hosue church ministry in our home where we invite servicemen and women over on Saturday evening for food and games and Sunday afternoon for a big home cooked dinner and fellowship. Check out our profile page. We'd love to provide you a "home away from home" (kind of a surrogate family) while you're here.
Email us if your interested and we'll provide contact info. Delete Comment
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I don't know who is responding to whom. The Ghent area is in Norfolk (nice and trendy) but Oceana is in the eastern end of Virginia Beach - a very long commute! Sorry, but in good traffic that would be almost an hour commute.
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