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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
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- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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Comment by Oneofalot on May 21, 2014 at 9:02am
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Good Morning to Everyone.
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Good morning to everyone
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Good morning to Everyone
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Comment by Storymom on May 18, 2014 at 4:41am
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thanks for the correction Mark.....it is Clinton, not Kingston.....and Bellingham would be a closer airport and then no need for ferries. ....my son flies in there from Hawaii when on leave....easy sneezy.
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Comment by Sanmor on May 17, 2014 at 8:07pm
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Hi allie1928, Whidbey is so beautiful. My son is still stationed there, but about to leave at the end of this month. We went there for a week his second year there. We stayed in Navy Lodge because Navy Gateway Inn and Suites was undergoing a remodel. The lodge is on the other base up there, about 5 mins away, but if I had the choice I would stay at Gateway Inn and Suites since it is right there on the main base near your sailor. Check out my own page here, you will see a lot of the pictures we took while on the island. I would move there tomorrow if I could, so beautiful. My sailor has loved being there for his 4 years. We drove from Seatac to the island since most of the sailors do too, it is just quicker since you have to wait for ferries, and can take a while. It is a 2 1/2 hour drive to the island, but Deception pass bridge makes it all worth it. I can not say enough wonderful things about that whole area, you will love it. Any questions do not hesitate to get in touch, what I don't know, my sailor does.
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Comment by allie1928 on May 17, 2014 at 7:19pm
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Thank you so much ladies for the great information!!! Much appreciated!
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Comment by Mark on May 17, 2014 at 6:02pm
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That would be the Mukilteo-Clinton ferry to the south end of Whidbey Island. The north end of Whidbey is accessible by bridge through Mt. Vernon and Anacortes, and would avoid the ferry. That route would be out of your way if you were coming from Seattle, but would be the quickest way from the Bellingham airport. Bellingham is often a better and cheaper option than flying through SeaTac if you're heading to Whidbey. It's worth checking out.
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Welcome Allie! yes, you catch a ferry to Whidbey, but not in Seattle. Drive north to Mukilteo and use the Mukilteo-Kingston Ferry...then drive north along the island to get to the Navy base. Sorry....don't know much about accommodations there, but there's a few 'Whidbey experts' here that can answer that for you. August should be beautiful! Congrats to your boy :-)
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Never been out to Washington before ...planning on going to seattle renting car then we take a ferry to whidbey???? Is that about right?
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Hello...I am new to this group...Son will be going to school at whidbey island soon...We want to come visit in August wondering if we should stay at nAvy lodge Whidbey island?
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