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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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I don't know about Okinawa. My Sailor was in another part of Japan. We found that having him have a Skype account worked well for us. He was able to call any number (landline or cell phone) in the US for $2.99 a month plus taxes an unlimited number of minutes. If we needed him to call us, we would leave a message for him on Skype (the free version) or in a message on Facebook. We did it that way because his Skype was always open and we did not know if he was on duty, sleeping, or free to talk. That worked well for us when he was on two other continents from me for 4 years and we continue with that now that he is on the same continent when in port. Skype and Facebook have really kept us in touch. The time difference was interesting when he was in Japan. He has a local phone number through Skype that we can call if needed and I have had to call that in an emergency involving his dad and then I called Red Cross to set up having him come home and they are great. I hope you never have to do it, but it works if needed.
Yes, your Sailor may have enough leave built up that he can go home before reporting to his first duty station. If he went home after "A" School he probably won't be able to, but if he didn't then he can if he chooses to and he should do RAP duty with a recruiter to get credit for 5 days of leave once he gets to his next command.
You or your Sailor will have to pay for transportation for any leave he takes. He earns 30 days of leave a year. You and your Sailor will figure out when it will work for him to come home. My Sailor was going to do Space A travel one time and we ended up buying tickets at the last minute when he was bumped and would not be able to fly for another week. Some are able to make that work, but we have decided not to try that again because it is very unreliable.
Join Japan Mom's. Is he an HM or MA?