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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 KatG on October 11, 2010 at 4:34pm
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A Virginia Mom whose son left 9/21 as well. PIR 11/19
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Comment by Vivian and Glen H. on August 12, 2010 at 9:00pm
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So my son just got home from his first deployment, and needed to buy a car. We shopped around Hampton and Virginia Beach.....the people at Beach Ford gave him the most amazing deal - they were fantastic. I recommend them without reservation!!
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Comment by ruth on August 7, 2010 at 2:28pm
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hello, I dont live in virginia but my son will be station there soon. so I plan on visiting as much as I can. thanks for the support.
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Comment by Chris on May 2, 2010 at 9:35am
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Mause,
Flying in/out of Patrick Henry is not a problem, however, I wound NOT stay on that side of the water. You will be at the mercy of the tunnel traffic, which can be a nightmare. Especially in the Summer. Patrick Henry is 60 to 75 minutes from Oceana without traffic. There are places to stay near Oceana on Bonney Road and Independence Blvd. (Extended Stay, Clarion, Days Inn, etc.). If your budget is tight, I would look in Norfolk, Chesapeake, and Suffolk.
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Comment by John and Yvonne on April 5, 2010 at 2:36pm
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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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JP - my wife and I live in Barboursville (a mile from Route 29 in Charlottesville). We'd be interested in participating in a get-together some time. Our son is about halfway thru his first deployment, but we do get to talk to him online and thru Skype surprisingly frequently. (he's not on a sub!). Glen
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Comment by Tom's mom on March 8, 2010 at 7:17pm
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Here in southwest Virginia we enjoyed a 56 degree day. Sunny with a nice breeze. Daffodils and tulips popping through the snow and they're loaded with buds! Makes me look forward to seed catalogs! Our sailor reports that it was snowing at Bangor (Washington) today! He said it would have been good packing snow if it hadn't melted soon after hitting the ground. Think Spring!
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May sounds pretty good to me. I'm an avid rose person myself. But spring brings with it a lot of planting and fertilizing. I think I'm getting ready to come out of "dormancy." :)
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I just saw your posts. Wow! I'm sorry you have been so cold. I hope things are better for you now. We've had more snow here in Virginia Beach this past couple of weeks than I've seen in 9 1/2 years! Usually, I like the snow. But I've seen now that they clear the interstate (64 and 264) here, but they don't clear the main roads in the area. that makes driving here after a snow storm treacherous.
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Thank you very much. It is a great blessing having a son like mine. He's an only child. He was always a good kid. Intelligent, with no motivation or direction coming out of high school. I am very grateful and humbled that the US Navy offers such great programs. Some tax dollars don't go to waste.
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