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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
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Warfare qualifications pins...
EVERY SAILOR SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
Warfare qualifications
1How they started. The concept of warfare qualifications and pins came out of the submarine force, where sailors and officers have qualified since 1924. But it would take more than half a century for the idea to catch on elsewhere in the fleet. In 1975, surface warfare officers started getting pins for qualifying at sea, and the enlisted qual program came in 1978.
2Showing your stuff. Today, it’s common for sailors to be awarded multiple warfare qualification and accompanying letter designators.
But regardless of how many pins a sailor may rate, only two can be worn at a time. The position on top of the breast pocket and/or ribbons is for the warfare specialty in which the sailor is currently or the one earned first.
Sailors with three or more quals can choose their secondary pin.
3Can you qualify? For the most part, if you are on sea duty, you will have some sort of warfare pin and qualification program available to you. This includes reservists attached to sea duty commands.
Some commands make sailors qualify for their work center and watch qualifications before moving on to a warfare program.
Sailors from shore commands on temporary additional duty at sea may get permission to participate in warfare programs, provided they have time at the command to complete them.
4What’s involved. Sailors E-5 and above reporting to sea with no quals must qualify within 18 months of checking onboard; there is no time limit for more junior sailors.
Those looking to qualify are issued a personnel qualification standard — essentially a book that spells out everything a sailor needs to know.
For most warfare programs, there is a “common core” personnel qualification standard, and then a specialized PQS that reflects their command’s platform or mission. For example, a sailor working for his enlisted surface warfare specialist pin aboard a destroyer would first do the ESWS common core, then a specialized version for DDGs. Once the PQS is signed off, the sailor demonstrates his knowledge in front of a board, usually made up of qualified sailors from various ranks.
The whole process can take anywhere from a few months to more than a year.
5Get ready to get one. Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (SS/SW) Rick West announced last year that all sailors on sea duty will be required to get a warfare qual within 30 months of reporting to their first command. Officials say they plan to roll out the mandatory requirement by the end of July.
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