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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
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- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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Homesick (Navy girl)
My Navy girl, my daughter called the other day very home sick crying. We have not seen her for almost a year. I decided that it would be a lot easier if I came up with something creative.
I bought a couple of watches and I decided to syncronize them to beep every 5 hours. I send her a note saying that every time her watch goes off, mine will go off at the same time. I told her to close her eyes, at that very momment my eyes will be closing too. I will be thinking of her happy thoughts as she will be doing the same thing too. I think that this idea will help her a lot and it will help me as well. I hope this will help others like it helped us. God bless..!
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Comment by SylvyKat825 on November 15, 2010 at 7:55am
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This is so sweet! I am in the same position as your daughter.
I'm on sea duty really far away from my mom and dad and I haven't seen my them in a year. I get extremely homesick sometimes where all I feel up to is crying. What a great idea about the watches! The next time I have a chance to talk to my mom I'm going to suggest this :)
How long has your daughter been in? and what's her rate?
God Bless you guys!
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Great idea about the watch:) I sent my navy girl a bronze sextant to look at the stars with... I taught her to use it when she was young and she has used it all her life when we have been apart. She was beside herself when she saw it in her first care package from home..it has helped a great deal; now she uses it on her carrier:) Good luck and God bless all our sailors:)
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Comment by SeaBeeMomma((April)) on December 9, 2010 at 12:58am
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This is such a great idea and a sweet sentiment! It warms my heart. My seabee daughter is deployed now too. I will be sending her a watch in the very near future synchronized to my own.
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Comment by Wanting the Best for my Son on December 19, 2010 at 6:00pm
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Are there any Navy Mom's whose son or daughter is getting ready for RLP or who has gone RLP?
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Thanks for all that posted. My girl left 2 weeks and 4 days ago for BC. This post made me ball my eyes out, which has been building up for days. I feel silly, am I overreacting, an emotional wreck, probably! But on the other hand so proud of the young lady I raised to know her own mind, to make a decision and stick to it when ALL her friends tried to talk her out of it, or just stopped talking to her altogether while she spent her summer training for BC. I hope it was worth it!
I miss her like crazy, the house is too quiet.
Peace to all,
Merry Christmas
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