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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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!

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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USS George Washington Sailors

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For family members of sailors who are on the USS GW on their way to be stationed in Japan

Members: 284
Latest Activity: Apr 7, 2019

Per the N4M Community Guidelines:

Don’t Jeopardize the Safety of Our Sailors: Remember OPSEC (Operational Security)
(Don’t Sink Ships With Loose Lips)
The following are examples of red flags and should not be shared within this community either by posting or sending via a Group message:
• No Sailor addresses, emails, or other contact information. The exception to this rule is FPO addresses.
• Specific dates, times, and locations regarding current or future deployments and ship movements. Do not post dates more specific than by month. Do not post specific ports of call, deployment bases, or future destinations.
• Details regarding training, equipment, and current or future operations or missions.

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Comment by Alyce on August 27, 2015 at 8:58pm: Thanks joshmom!!!

He'll be waiting for the GW's arrival in VA, so I guess he'll have other duties until then?

Comment by MaggieMay on August 26, 2015 at 9:39pm: bon j - please stop in from time to time and let us know how you and your son are doing. I will always feel a connection to Japan and I'm going to miss hearing the stories from that far away land. I know the RR is in good hands with all those great GW sailors onboard....Fair winds and following seas!

Comment by bon j on August 26, 2015 at 6:21pm: Hi to all, Since my son has transferred from the " G DUB" to the Ronald Raegan I'll sadly be leaving this group and joining another. But I would like to thank this group for their posts that kept me informed as much as possible. I want to thank Brenda Downs for creating this group as it helped a newbie sailors mom from worrying herself into hysteria. Thanks again to all and may god sail with all our sailors.

Comment by MaggieMay on August 25, 2015 at 8:31am: Hello ladies! And welcome Alyce & Aliyah!!

Sleeping on a barge...sure hope not! When the GW was home ported in Japan new sailors arriving would live on the barge first before going to the ship so perhaps that's the info you got.

Aliyah - due to OPSEC we can't say but it won't be until later this year...they still got a big cruise ahead of them

And congrats to your son Alyce on his graduation from C school! Will your son be meeting up with the ship soon or not till it arrives in Virginia?

Comment by Alyce on August 24, 2015 at 12:45am: Hi!! My son just finished C school in Pensacola last week, and will be assigned to the GW when it arrives for its overhaul. He's an IT Sys Admin. I've been seeing around some groups online that sailors working on a dry docked ship sleep on a barge. Do any of you know that to be true?

Comment by Aliyah on August 21, 2015 at 7:40pm: Hi has anyone got any info on the deployment as to what month the ship will arrive I know can't say specific but I just want to know some sort of info if any anybody has any

Comment by ProudMomof4 on August 20, 2015 at 4:59pm: willsmom--sending prayers for your family...

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