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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.
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:
**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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well i havent been on here in awhile, but our first deployment that was 9 months long ended on may 3rd so ive had my husband home for about a month now, def some readjusting happening (still) but i couldnt be happier to have him home, the beggining drug by soo slow but towards middle i was always so busy and it flew by so my advice to you others that have to go through your first and long deployment its def gonna feel like its never going to end in the begging but it will, i promise and it…
ContinueAdded by corischauer26 on June 6, 2013 at 10:34am — 4 Comments
well my hubby is on the USS Stennis and just left for deployment monday, and it was my last time seeing him for 8 months...does anyone have any ideas on what i should do to make time go faster? does it get easier?:(
Added by corischauer26 on September 1, 2012 at 4:28am — 3 Comments
not feeling very well today i hate to think just at the end of this month we will be apart for 8 months with little contact...im already missing him while im here in texas and hes way up in washington. blahh. anyone else get these days:(
Added by corischauer26 on August 9, 2012 at 6:46pm — 1 Comment
My Husband and i just recently got married while he was home on leave after his basic training, he is now in Bremerton, Washington, as of last friday and we found out he will be deploying towards the end of this month, so im headed up there to spend a few days with him before he leaves for his long deployment im very scared and torn about this deployment because it will be very long, and our first one im also excited to get it out of the way first hand so he will be home for awhile after,…
ContinueAdded by corischauer26 on August 7, 2012 at 5:25pm — 11 Comments
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