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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:
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 sunnyday on September 2, 2015 at 10:28am
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My son rolled earlier this year after failing RLP. It's heartbreaking to hear the anguish in their voice when they call with the news. My son actually DOR'd after that, but they convinced him to stay in and he rejoined the next class and graduated. I've found that sympathetic listening and encouraging him to not make an emotional decision is the best support I can offer him. Rest assured, rolling is not the end of the world and they will survive it.
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OkieMom: Yes, it is very disappointing to them to roll back to H Class, but several from each class do, and they usually wind up being stronger candidates afterwards, and are assigned leadership positions in their new class. Search back on this comment wall for comments by other Moms whose candidates had rolled earlier this year. They all did fine afterwards, and graduated, so tell your son to be positive. He will get through it, as many others have.
Hopefully, some others Moms whose kids have rolled at OCS can comment here and reassure you!
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GalleyMom: Glad you had a wonderful time at graduation, and to hear your DS is getting settled in Norfolk! You'll have to visit Norfolk sometime before he deploys. Just curious: did your son's class do the "First Salutes" ceremony by giving their DI and PO a coin? Someone said they had discontinued that, and I thought it was a shame to discontinue such a tradition. They took official pics of our son's First Salutes, and included it in the photo pack we were sent.
Our DS and DIL were just here visiting last weekend for 4 days! He had saved up all of his 30 days annual leave (since he was deployed) and then he was given two weeks' travel time to get to his next duty in CA, so he has six weeks of paid leave. He and wife are now vagabonds on an extreme road trip around the US and Canada in a little Fiat 500! They left Whidbey Island Naval Air Station (near Seattle) on August 1 and are visiting far-flung family and friends all over the US, and seeing all the tourist sights. They're young and childless, so why not? (It sounds exhausting to me.)
They will wind up in Monterey, CA on Sept 21 where DS will be in school for 90 days learning his next Navy job, then after Jan 1 they will head to Japan for 3 years!
It was great to have them here for a few days so I could "mother" them both a little! (Homemade cookies, anyone?) I even got my son to go through his childhood room and throw out a bunch of stuff and pack up some to go to Goodwill, which I had been trying to get him to do since he graduated college. Hopefully, I can drag hubby along to visit them in Japan sometime. He's not keen on the idea.
Now the real Navy adventure begins for your family and your son! Anchors aweigh!!!
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Comment by OkieMom on September 2, 2015 at 12:24am
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Thanks for the info, bkell32. My son is also restarting with 03-16.
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Thank you, JLR. Both our sons are going to get through. And you are so right. Graduation is the ultimate goal!
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I'm so sorry, OkieMom. My son started on the 16th, too. So far, so good, but I can tell that he's worried. It seems as if there are a million things that they can do wrong.... But I've heard that even if you roll, most get through and graduate (which is,after all, the important thing here), and they usually act as leaders in the class they roll into.
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Hello all! My son began OCS in Newport on Aug 16. We got a short phone call from him a few days ago and he had been rolled. He was devastated. He was trying to make himself yell louder and accidentally touched the other guy's nose with his nose. How fatal of a mistake is this???
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GalleyMom: Hope you had a good time in Newport at graduation and commissioning! Did your son get to come home for a while before he has to report to his next station?
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TxNavyWife: That's good news! Probably the issue with prior enlisted email is that they were issued an official Navy email address before, and that has to be changed to an officer's email now. But one would think that there are prior enlisted often enough at OCS, that they would know what to do by now!
You are right about the military being a never- ending test of patience. My son has only been commissioned for three years and has had his patience tested many times already. He has been the recipient of completely contradictory information from two different superior officers, and then HE was held responsible for the confusion!!!!!!!!
I'm not sure I personally would have enough patience to be in the military since my tolerance for that sort of thing is pretty low, but my son has thankfully learned to roll with it. "Semper Gumby" they say. ("Always flexible.")
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Comment by TxNavyWife on August 16, 2015 at 5:01pm
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Got a 15 min call from the hubby today! Passed RLP and has moved into a new room. There is supposed to be email now, but there is an issue with the prior enlisted's emails. Sigh. Military is a never ending test of patience it seems!
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