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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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Comment by Storymom on December 4, 2015 at 12:09pm
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rogueval:
congrats on your son's first deployment! I might suggest a recent family picture gets tucked in the box too! Maybe some Christmas Decorations? Sometimes I added silly stuff my son would share with others too...Christmas-themed table confetti, balloons, silly string, NW treats like almond roca, aplets & cotlets, taffy or Oregon favorites? Deck of cards, toss in a fresh sprig of evergreen too! A nice Northwest home-grown smell. A favorite magazine or two?
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Comment by roguevalgal on December 3, 2015 at 10:52pm
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Hi Moms: Haven't been "talking" on this forum for quite awhile, but seems like there's a lot more Oregon and WA Navy Moms sharing news and thoughts now so I'm in too :).
We live in So Oregon, near Grants Pass. Our son is stationed at a squadron at Whidbey Is. WA. He's been in two years now having graduated frm BC at GL in Feb'14. Currently deployed so will not be home this Xmas nor Thanksgiving. Just not the same w/o him here with us, esp for the holidays!
Packing up his Christmas pkgs from home now and discovered the special running shoes he asked for are the wrong size. What a bummer.. so may have to wait on getting those until after Xmas. We'll see.
I've packed most of what he's requested, plus homemade cookies (enough to share), yummy beef jerky from a local source, chocolate (of course), and a big bag of peanuts in the shell (his fav).
Any other last minute suggestions of what else to add? Yes, his requested new video games are already in the box.
He'll be back in the not too distant future. His first deployment. Sure looking forward to hugging him tight and having a good long chat to catch up. It's nice we can still chat on messenger while he's gone though, when he's not working, working out, or sleeping.
May all our loved ones be safe, content, and home soon. Merry Christmas to all the Navy Moms and their Navy sons and daughters. So proud of all of them.
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Comment by Buzzbeck on December 3, 2015 at 9:32pm
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Yep, it is blowing hard in the Willamette Valley tonight.
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Comment by scorpiozen on December 3, 2015 at 6:15pm
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That wind just blow the lid off my chimney! Hope we have time before the rains hit to get it reattached.
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Hang Tight Washington & Oregon....another big wind coming this way.....
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Everybody okay after this latest storm around Puget Sound? got Power?? Hope so ♥
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Honoring All Veterans!❤❤
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Tawnie! Wow...you are so lucky to have his station so nearby-holidays will be so much easier! Bravo Zulu & Welcome to the the Puget Sound/Possession Sound area to your boy!
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