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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.
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- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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34 days..
It's so hard to believe there are just 34 more days left with Josh until he leaves to start his new life! The time has flown by; so fast in fact, that I find myself in this surreal situation watching my middle son become a man before my very eyes. Words will never adequately express how proud I am of him, how much I will miss seeing his face each day, his wit and sarcasm, and all the joy he brings to the house. It's so amazing how quickly this has come about, even though it's been 6 months in the making. 34 days! He's grown so much as a person, physically and emotionally, and yet still has so much growing to do. I'm so excited for him, and yet, of course, scared as well. I wish for him great success and adventure, safety and security. I wish he would be there this summer to experience all our family will do, and it will be so strange doing those things without him there. This new chapter in our lives will be most interesting, and I hope a very rewarding experience for us all.
I'm discovering I have a lot of emotion around this departure that I have not yet dealt with. I so badly want to hold him in my arms, as only a mother can do, and tell him all of what I'm feeling; but I fear my words will fail me and I'll not be able to adequately relate what I feel. I don't want to give him pause, only encouragement, but I fear I may mess it up and make him feel bad about his choice. I don't want to allow this fear to take away from the chance to share some deep feelings; I'm just not sure how to put them into words.
So, as I write this, and cry, I wonder if I will be able to tell him all I need and want to before he leaves to start anew. I ask only for courage and energy to endure and do the right thing in my support of my fantastic future sailor!
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Comment by lemonelephant on May 22, 2013 at 2:33pm
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You may wish to join the group, DEP-Leavin for bootcamp in June. You will meet others with loved ones leaving the same day/week who may be in the same TG and have PIR together, who are going through the same things you are. Be sure to check out the discussion, Things to Do in the Last Month Before Your Future Sailor Leaves for.... I also suggest you join Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) and New Members Stop Here and check out the Pages (found under the pictures of the Members) and Discussions there.
Your future Sailor may want to join http://www.navydep.com to learn the ins and outs from the DEP point of view. Craig runs that and will steer him to some good links on there.
(Group names and the link within this comment are clickable links. To join a group, click on the group name and when the group page opens, click on "+ Join..." in the upper right.)
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Comment by TonyaJosh'sMom on May 22, 2013 at 2:38pm
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Thanks for all the info!
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You are very welcome.
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