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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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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.

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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:

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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).

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**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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Sponsor, sponsor or command sponsorship?

What is the difference?

If you are married, the service member is the sponsor of the dependents. Your sailor is your sponsor.

When a sailor gets orders to a new command, they are given a sponsor. This is a senior sailor who helps tghem to check in and get to all the places they need to be.

Command sponsorship is what a dependent MUST have in order for the Navy to pay for them to go overseas,ship household goods, get housing and cost of living allowances and use the military facilities. There is a screening and approval process. E-3 and below and not authorized to take dependents overseas.

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Permalink Reply by Anti M on December 20, 2010 at 5:05pm

Also, Guam can be a bit easier to get approval than Japan, however, it is still horribly expensive. Guam does have housing for married junior sailors, whereas Japan does not.

Permalink Reply by Tiffany on December 21, 2010 at 3:52pm

Thank you Anti M! You have not steered me in the wrong direction ever nor have you ever given me false hope! :) After we are married can we go to MEPS and fill out all of the insurance paperwork and get my military id card?

Permalink Reply by Anti M on December 21, 2010 at 6:36pm

MEPS? Uh, no. First, he has to add you to the page two of his service record as his dependent. He will need a copy of your SSN (maiden name is okay), birth certificate and marriage certificate. Then he enrolls you in DEERS. The he signs you up for insurance (Tricare). This all has to happen at the base where his PSD (personnel) is located. Then you get your ID card. If he is not with you, he will send you a signed form you take to any military base, along with your SSN card, birth certificate and marriage certificate.

As you can see, you will need duplicate certified copies/originals of many documents. Order the ones you can get now. Heck, get a passport now, it will make your life easier in the long run. Don't sweat the name changes until later. I've changed my name a couple times, it isn't all that difficult, just annoying.

You can call MEPS and verify this.

Permalink Reply by Tiffany on December 21, 2010 at 9:26pm

Ok I have been wondering about that. So just making copies of my SSN, birth certificate, and marriage certificate wont work? His recruiter mentioned that I could go to MEPS to get my ID card since it is the closest military facility to me but I was still confused about the other stuff...thank you.

Permalink Reply by Anti M on December 21, 2010 at 10:59pm

Call MEPS and find out. It may be so in your area. It isn't here, because we have a large AF base nearby. Recruiters can have bad information, just as I can. If I'm wrong, I want to know!

Usually certified copies are required. You'll need an original BC for a passport, and PSD may require originals. Have him ask. This is fact gathering, and facts are best gathered from the source if possible. If you find anything out, please, report it here. That's how we build knowledge and help each other.

Permalink Reply by Tiffany on December 21, 2010 at 11:18pm

Ok I will call them and ask. I always have him ask but I like to get on here to get an idea of where I need to start and what I need him to ask. You seriously have been so helpful to me through every step of this crazy journey!