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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
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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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Yokosuka, Japan Moms
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This group was started for Moms who have a sailor in Yokosuka, Japan.
Members: 241
Latest Activity: Apr 3
Discussion Forum
need advise
Started by Alaska mom. Last reply by me2anavymom May 9, 2017. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Getting orders out of Japan
Started by purplegiraffe69. Last reply by Spokane Sailormom Aug 18, 2015. 2 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by KatK on July 23, 2009 at 12:07pm
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Hi Ladies, I am slowly making my way to Yokosuka! I will be there from August 1-4th. I am so excited to see my son. I will try to get some pictures and put them on my page. Right now I am in Zurich, Switzerland then to Singapore and onto Japan. I am with my husband who is traveling for business. He had surgery and is on crutches so I am the "bag lady" for this trip. I don't care though since I will get to see Matt.
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Comment by CCR on July 16, 2009 at 12:54pm
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KatK, I meant this sites guidelines, not Opsec, sorry I did not make that clear. I was specifically addresing the part that says its OK to say our sailor is in Iraq, etc., but not the city. So My question was, can we say Yokosuka?
Anyhow, I have found a great site someone on here told me about, here is the pictures page. There are 700 videos. http://yokosukabase.com/pics.aspx
Hope I'm not breaking any guidelines, let me know. I do not want to lose this particular group, it will be very valuable to all of us.
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Where are these guidelines? I didn't see anything about them.
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since I've been gone a while, I read the new guidelines. We are only supposed to say Japan, and not Yokosuka and not mention ships??? Let me know how you interpret the new policies. Thanks, not much time to read everything!!!!
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wonderful news Nancy and Natalie. Hello all. Mary, I got an e-mail from a Navy dad about MCPON West. Very cool. I joined his FB page.
I got back from SD and had to stay in Conroe for another week. My army Nephew and his little girl were there and stayed with my folks and saw my two brothers and their wives also. Now I have to go to denver and wichita to help drive my folks to see my moms last sister and her deceased sisters boys (who were both Navy, by the way....)
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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on July 7, 2009 at 7:09pm
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Hi all, hope your holiday weekend was great. MCPON West was in Yokosuka last week and they just posted this clip that I thought you might like to see...
DNU -- Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (SS/SW) Rick D. West visits Fleet Activities, Yokosuka.
-- http://www.navy.mil/swf/mmu/mmplyr.asp?id=12835
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Happy 4th of July to all the moms and dads out there as well as our military posted all over the world.
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Matt called last night and then just got an email from him. He seems to be settling in. I don't know how moms of the past stood not hearing from their sons form months on end. I would have gone CRAZY! I'm glad everyone has heard from their son now. Let's all continue to keep in touch.
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Connie, My son will be on the USS Fitzgerald and we heard from him about 2:30 am PST ( 6:30 pm Japan time) He had just landed in Japan. His plane was late so he missed his bus to the base. Can't wait to hear from him again and hope he is getting some much needed sleep.
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Connie, I will let you know as soon as I hear from. What ship will he be going to?
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