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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!
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.
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."
**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).
**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 isno 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.
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Glad to hear you made it through the graduation process. You'll have to let me know what to expect when we get there? We still have to book our flight and was hoping to fly out of Fresno. Now you're on to the next adventure. Hope all goes well for your son.
I'm a Hanford mom! My boy has only been gone two weeks so I have a long ways to go. We just got the form letter as to know where to write letters, etc. I immediately sat down and wrote two letters and then emailed everyone I knew to send him letters of encouragement. Happy to see that you will soon be past this stage and on to a bigger and better future with the Navy. Best Wishes for you and your family.
I just call Brian from PIRGifts and he says you don't have to worry. They have about 50 USS Triton coins left. Glad you like it. That was the 1st coin I designed.
If yoour phone works in the mountains then I would go. My son was one of the lucky ones and he got to call home multiple times. Some were for his security clearance the others because is Division was doing really well. Almost all of my son's calls were during the week. I don't remember one weekend call, you might ask other veterans about that. My friend had two sons who are inthe Navy and she never got a single call from either one-they were always on watch or Division lost priviledges. So, I know how much the calls mean, but waiting for something that might not come would be equally disappointing. I know personally it would have been a tough call for me if I was in the same situation, because they want to speak to us as much as we want to speak to them. So, my advice is go if you can get reception and if not check in to a local hotel where you get reception and still be out of the house so you can get that needed break. Have you gotten any letters yet?
Hi my son is Ship 12 Div 296. I have been trying to find someone on here with the same. Have you heard from him? I not a word and am going crazy. I have my trip all booked for graduation. I am from Colorado.
Tell them this is not like going to college. They can have contact and visits which our SR's cannot. Plus they are embarking on a career which puts them in harms way and many time far from home. My son is in A School now and we talk, text, or Skype every other day. I think the letter writing in BC made us even closer on another level. So hang in there and keep writing letters.
Hi, I just wanted to share the facebook link your were looking for on the PIR groups main page. https://www.facebook.com/groups/450039188350841/ I look forward to accepting you to the group. There are some moms looking for other members from that division.
"The Box" arrived at my ex's today. Now we're awaiting The Letter. I've written seven letters to my son - one a day since he left. They're sitting on my desk, sealed, stamped, and ready to be addressed. I wonder how he's doing.
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FIRST TIME HERE?
FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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:
OPSEC GUIDELINES
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**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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Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.
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PIR was AMAZING! My son is now in A school, and we can talk to him!
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir09142012?groupUrl=pir09142012&id=1971797%3AGroup%3A7221370&page=1#comments
Alot of chatter about the "I am a Sailor" phone calls. No word on our boys yet though :(
Hi Fresno Mom,
I'm a Hanford mom! My boy has only been gone two weeks so I have a long ways to go. We just got the form letter as to know where to write letters, etc. I immediately sat down and wrote two letters and then emailed everyone I knew to send him letters of encouragement. Happy to see that you will soon be past this stage and on to a bigger and better future with the Navy. Best Wishes for you and your family.
My son is in the same division that your son is in . Have you recieved a phone call from him recently.
Can I call the Navy and tell them I changed my mind? I want my SR back.
Hi FresnoNavyMom
My son's wife and I will both be at PIR. We're staying at the Courtyard Waukegan not too far north of the base.
If you don't already have them here are a couple links:
BootCampMoms
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/bootcampmoms?groupUrl=bootcampmoms&id=1971797%3AGroup%3A2944&page=2#comments
And Ship 12 DIV 295/296
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir09142012/forum/topics/ship-12-division-296
Hope to meet you at PIR.
I just call Brian from PIRGifts and he says you don't have to worry. They have about 50 USS Triton coins left. Glad you like it. That was the 1st coin I designed.
Craig
We got our second letter on Thursday. Mine was two pages long. I've read it a half dozen times by now. I miss my son so much!
Thank You Fresno.....I know it will get easier, he is just the first to leave home.
If yoour phone works in the mountains then I would go. My son was one of the lucky ones and he got to call home multiple times. Some were for his security clearance the others because is Division was doing really well. Almost all of my son's calls were during the week. I don't remember one weekend call, you might ask other veterans about that. My friend had two sons who are inthe Navy and she never got a single call from either one-they were always on watch or Division lost priviledges. So, I know how much the calls mean, but waiting for something that might not come would be equally disappointing. I know personally it would have been a tough call for me if I was in the same situation, because they want to speak to us as much as we want to speak to them. So, my advice is go if you can get reception and if not check in to a local hotel where you get reception and still be out of the house so you can get that needed break. Have you gotten any letters yet?
:-( Looks like we're not getting a call today. The waiting is killing me.
Hi my son is Ship 12 Div 296. I have been trying to find someone on here with the same. Have you heard from him? I not a word and am going crazy. I have my trip all booked for graduation. I am from Colorado.
Tell them this is not like going to college. They can have contact and visits which our SR's cannot. Plus they are embarking on a career which puts them in harms way and many time far from home. My son is in A School now and we talk, text, or Skype every other day. I think the letter writing in BC made us even closer on another level. So hang in there and keep writing letters.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/101475116667957/ Here is the link for the Facebook PIR group. Both are closed groups so you will have to ask to join. Thanks
Hi, I just wanted to share the facebook link your were looking for on the PIR groups main page. https://www.facebook.com/groups/450039188350841/ I look forward to accepting you to the group. There are some moms looking for other members from that division.
I just created this facebook group for moms/dads/grandparents/siblings/etc. who are Ship 12 DIV 296.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/450457648320103/members/
I'm just giddy! We got the form letter today with my son's address and PIR date. It was so exciting just to see his handwriting on the envelope. :)
"The Box" arrived at my ex's today. Now we're awaiting The Letter. I've written seven letters to my son - one a day since he left. They're sitting on my desk, sealed, stamped, and ready to be addressed. I wonder how he's doing.