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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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Comment by poodlelover on February 5, 2015 at 7:27pm
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Thanks for the info @lemonelephant. I am just so anxious. I would really like to know when the PIR is so I can start making reservations. Any suggestions on a hotel? I looked into the Sleep Inn since it is the closest. I am going to be flying in from Mississippi.
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Comment by Mychael 's Mom on February 5, 2015 at 7:33pm
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Ok, thank u so much LEMON ELEPHANT : ) I too am ready to start making travel plans for graduation !!! Not sure if he had to wait for others to arrive ??? I'll ask the minute he calls me !!!
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Comment by lemonelephant on February 5, 2015 at 7:44pm
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Mychael's Mom, you are very welcome. Even his recruiter won't know unless his info is in the computer. You'll know from his PIR date if he had to wait on others or not. If it is the 27th he didn't have to wait and if it is the 3rd he did. I really think his PIR will be the 27th.
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poodlelover, see Saving Money PIR Weekend and PIR Day and Liberty during PIR Weekend to help you plan your weekend once you get The Form Letter.
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Comment by BunkerQB on February 5, 2015 at 8:18pm
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Hmm. I sort of like ELEPHANT LEMON. Gives me different visuals. Haha. Mychael' Mom, you are a delight. Please join all the groups the EL noted in her comment on the comment wall on your personal page. My sailor completed his commitment to the Navy in 2012. Like me, you'll you'll meet and will become great friends with the nicest people on this site.
Welcome to all new comers. You all are very lucky to have so many "veteran" moms helping you. Navy For Moms didn't exist when my son joined in 2006.
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Comment by ceejay on February 5, 2015 at 8:37pm
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Last January, when my daughter arrived in one of Chicago's airports, she called, let me know it was snowing...she made it safely and that she would call when she arrived at Boot Camp in GLs. Well, once there, she called not once but three times!!! I thought the volume on my cell phone was turned up ---it wasn't! Ugh! I felt so bad and cried knowing that I wouldn't hear from her for weeks and just so disappointed that I missed her call! As I thought about her during this "quiet" time, I found myself -of all things!- remembering the time she had been homesick while away at a-week-long summer camp years before---and now this! Totally different circumstances obviously! Thankfully, my work kept me busy. I tried to stay positive, and also offered up prayers for her strength and safety---the prayers helped tremendously! When I heard from her a few weeks later, I was at work but I HAD to definitely take her call. It was soooo good to hear her voice and hear her in good spirits! She felt that she was where she should be, she also shared that she met a girl from our area! -so they started out on common ground and, at times, would hang out together. What a testament to God's loving care! I encouraged my family to make sure they write her to encourage her, and to look out for her to calls, which she was very thankful for.
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@ Bunker QB Thank u : ) and Thank u for still supporting New Navy Mom's like me : ) !!! I have been reading a lot over the last couple of days... so much to learn and such a wealth of information to be gained : )
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@ ceejay, Thank u for sharing your experiences : ) For those of us walking this road for the very first time it's important that we gain as much info as possible for Seasoned Mom's and new ones alike !!! My focus is my son at the end of the day anything I can get to help me continue to support him, I'm for it !!! I keep my son covered in PRAYER, with LOVE... it's the only way I know how to help and support him ♡♡♡
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Comment by Steph Proud AG Mom on February 6, 2015 at 11:01am
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Mine got there on March 7th. the first call was March 23rd on a Saturday Morning. This was also in 2013. My next recruit leaves in July
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Comment by tori'smom on February 6, 2015 at 12:06pm
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You are getting so close to getting that letter and soon enough that call! YAY!!! Have the tisues handy for the happy cry when that happens.. and definitely keep us posted on when it happens. Ha.. glad you are as into that hotel door decorating as I am. Our kids will be so surprised if we can pull that off. And yes please share if you find out more about it and I'll do the same. :)
No worries on the typos.. I'm sure I have my own.
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