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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:
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
Navy Speak
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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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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Permalink Reply by Navy Wife Ginnibean on
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this really helped me understand several things! thank you!!
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Permalink Reply by allisonG on
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his paychecks can be direct deposited into your guys account and that way you should get paid on the normal pay days. But also for your sanity.. you might want to get a job to keep you busy while he is gone, and it will give you some extra cash as well..
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Permalink Reply by WifeyForLifey!! on
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Hello:) My husband just finished basic and is now in BESS, in Groton CT. (Basic Enlisted Submarine School) I can tell you what we did and maybe it will help you. We saved up 2 months worth of living expenses and I moved to the inlaws so they could help with our new baby. If you open a joint Navy Federal Checking account he should be able to take the account number with him to basic and not have to go through that process while he is there.
The reason to open the account before he leaves is because you will already have the info and when his 1st paycheck goes in, you can have immediate access. This for us, happened sometime in the 2nd month. Since my hubby and I didn't do this, I didn't have access to the account until he graduated basic. We filled out a paper to make me a joint on the account b/c I pay the bills, but this was lost ..and I withdrew from another account to cover month 3's bills.
As far as finances in the navy go..you should get separation pay after 30 days of him being gone, which is $250 a month, BAH, which you can look online based on where you live, not where your husband is...this will all be on his paycheck. The first check will be smaller because it isn't for a whole month, and they take out money for his uniforms.
I wish you the best...congrats and be strong!! Spend as much time with him as possible before he leaves. -
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Permalink Reply by Anna on
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One of the challenges to being a new navy spouse is navigating all the services and resources available to you. For anything financial, check out Navy Marine Corp Relief Society at NMCRS.org
They should be able to help with financial planning and budgets. If you come up short one month they might be able to assist you with an interest free loan or grant. So give them a call if needed. -
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