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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.
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- Graduation Info
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Comment by Amanda1965 on March 3, 2015 at 10:43am
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Thank you all for the kind words. After reading past posts and taking a lot of notes I am still unclear if I can send my son letters it being only 3 days into OCS. I am ok with him there and very proud but you all speak of sending many letters to keep his spirit up. How do I get that information? How do I find out his class? Thanks for any info. The prior posts enlightened me a lot.
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Comment by Paymaster on March 2, 2015 at 10:09pm
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Amanda....welcome to our group!
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Comment by JudyM on March 2, 2015 at 9:53pm
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Amanda, you have a fun ride ahead. Hard to believe it was four years ago my son was at Newport. He just returned from his first deployment.
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Looking forward to all your knowledge. My son just entered Newport RI on March 1st. Have been reading past posts. Very helpful.
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Comment by ulua on February 27, 2015 at 10:12am
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Cheri H- beautiful! Congrats on your new blessing! My DS will be starting his first deployment April/May this year. I recall there were some great postings on tips for sending care packages to a ship. Is there a forum discussion on this or does anyone remember when this discussion was posted? thanks and Happy Friday!
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Love the picture, Cheri. Thank you for sharing. It is great that we gave so many new Moms. Welcome all.
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Comment by Helomom on February 26, 2015 at 1:54am
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Gonavymom-So far all is going well with our DIL. I know they were not able to clear everything during her surgery so there may be more down the road. Hopefully DS will be home if this reoccurs. Your DS is on the Vinson? So is mine! He flies SAR so hopefully they will never meet ;-)
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Comment by gonavymom on February 26, 2015 at 1:23am
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Sweet picture Cheri and what a beautiful baby girl!
Helomom: I could not believe the story about what your DIL went through! So glad that your DS was able to get leave to be there and I am really impressed with how quickly the Navy made that happen. I actually went through an almost identical situation 11 years ago. I ended up having three surgeries over the course of a year. The last one put me into surgical menopause and my then husband (a surgeon) was convinced I had a post operative pelvic abscess because of the low grade fever and night sweats-haha! I hope her recovery is uneventful!
My DS got short notice deployed right after he finished his carrier quals. For all those new moms out there, this was the hurry up part of the hurry up and wait that is the Navy life. He finished his quals Jan. 30 and was on his way Feb. 9th to join the Carl Vinson in the Persian Gulf. He was PriA and had his heart set on going to Japan, which he could have, but some pilots go their entire career without flying a combat mission and he could not say no to the CO of the squadron that asked for him. Now when I see a bunch of posts on N4M, I get a little anxious about what is going on!
Hope those of you on the east coast and in the south are staying warm and safe!
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Congratulations Cheri! She's beautiful!
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Comment by CheriH on February 25, 2015 at 11:54pm
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So, here's my new grandbaby! She's so precious. 5 days old and already stolen her Mimi's heart!
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