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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!

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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:

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:

RTC Graduation

**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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Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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Time goes by so fast, then he'll be gone.

My boyfriend leaves for Basic Training in less than two months and I guess I've just been having a hard time trying to deal with it. I feel like I'm driving him crazy because I want to be with him all the time. I find myself getting upset when he wants to go hang out with friends and I feel so selfish for it. I guess I'm just scared of him leaving and I know it's coming. Time goes by so fast and then he'll be gone. I guess I just want to spend every moment I have left with him together. Everytime I get sad about him going places he asks me why and I have yet to talk to him about how I'm feeling. I'm thinking about doing it tonight but then i always end up crying and I don't want to make him leaving harder on him. We've been together for almost ten months and he won't be here for our anniversary, which is going to be really hard for me. I don't think I'll even be able to speak to him on that day. I support him joining the Navy 100% and I want him to do what he wants. I just want to make the time we have left special but I know he has a life and there are other things he'd like to do. I wish it were easier and that I wasn't acting so crazy about it. I'm just going to miss him so much.

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Comment by AJVNavyMom on January 9, 2011 at 11:53am
I wouldn't say you are acting crazy, but rather in love.  You need to let him know you will miss him and you MUST allow yourself time to cry.  Somewhere along the line, we learned to hide our feelings and to be "brave."  But in my opinion,  a real woman, or man, cries.  Its ok to feel and to show you do.  I wouldn't say cry every day to him because the added stress will derail him.  He needs to stay hyper focused on his decision.  Support him, and yes, be with him every chance you can...without smothering him.  You should love him enough to share him with his family and friends.  He will love you more for that.  My son left Wednesday and I am so sad without him here it hurts.  Before he left I made sure he knew how incredibly proud his dad, sister, and myself were of him.  How proud our entire family is of him.  I saved a lot of my crying for night when he couldn't see.  Hang in there and remember, talk it out and allow time to cry!  :)

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