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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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Yokosuka, Japan Moms

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This group was started for Moms who have a sailor in Yokosuka, Japan.

Members: 241
Latest Activity: Apr 3

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Comment by lovemyson on December 7, 2016 at 10:55pm: How do a I see love chat?

Comment by Kim (Proud Mom of Sailor) on August 15, 2016 at 12:11pm: Classycalicat - that would be cool but we are looking at hopefully spring but you never know with the ship's schedules when we can go. We are going to plan for spring but not book anything until he has his approved leave.

Comment by Classycalicat on August 15, 2016 at 6:56am: Kim, I am planning on going to Yokosuka the beginning of next year with my 16 year old son to visit during Christmas break. We are just starting to look into it. It'd be cool if we could all go around the same time!

Comment by Kim (Proud Mom of Sailor) on August 6, 2016 at 11:23am: Quiet Mom, I totally understand. At least when he was in the states, I could take a long weekend, fly wherever and spend a couple of days with him. Not now. Next year I do plan to take a couple of weeks off from work to visit him in Japan.

Comment by Quiet Mom on August 5, 2016 at 8:20am: Thank you, Kim (Proud Mom). I emailed my son to do the same. Sure do miss him. Can't just drive across country to give him a hug.

Comment by Kim (Proud Mom of Sailor) on August 4, 2016 at 12:41pm: Hi Quiet Mom, my son is in Yokosuka. He got a phone from there. We communicate via Messenger through Facebook. He also pays for wifi on base so he doesn't use data. His ship is not deployed yet (just arrived earlier this year) so I can't help you with that information. It is my understanding that texting will use international charges.

Comment by Quiet Mom on August 4, 2016 at 8:50am: Good morning. Our son recently arrived in Yokosuka. Will live aboard one of the destroyers. How does computer time work on board ships? Are smart phones an inexpensive way to communicate, say through facetime? Will texting work? Thank you all so much.

Comment by Dutchess on July 5, 2016 at 1:15pm: Hello everyone. My daughter has orders for Iwakuni. She will be at the hospital in the lab. Does anyone have someone stationed there?

Comment by CarolinaRose on June 27, 2016 at 12:18pm: I am so happy. My daughter got a new iphone and we got to facetime and imessage this weekend. She seems so happy and is not minding ship life at all. she said her rack is in the middle and very small but once she get settled in she sleeps very sound. she has been use to noise while she sleeps for a while now so that does not surprise me. It is true that sailors can sleep about anywhere lol.

Comment by Chris, Forever Ray's Proud Mom on May 2, 2016 at 5:33pm: thanks MAMA_C and 2tymeNavyMom...my son will get there early 2017, shore based, and he is ET2 (E5 in Army terms!) with prob promo in 2017.