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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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- A little about me:
- I have 3 kids, ages 21, 18, and 14. We are the founders of a non-profit, A Place of Hope Africa, and live in Nigeria most of the year. We will be in the states for our sons graduation and then will be heading back to Africa. Our 18 year old son is in his 3rd week at bootcamp and I have received 2 letters which he seems down in. The mom in me is dying to rescue him, which I know is impossible, but I wanted to chat with other moms that might feel the same way as me!
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- Enlisted
- When I heard “Navy,” I...
- Was proud and encouraged it
- The Navy offers opportunities that...
- Ask, ask, and ask again. Get everything in writing! Go with my son to meet with his recruiter more than once. 18 year-olds don't think of all the questions that an adult will ask. We assume that they will tell them everything they need to know and guide them through the process. But they don't offer alot of information, it is only when you ask that you get the answer. They don't tell you everything up front. They cannot lie, but can stretch the truth!
- Our Navy experience so far...
- It was positive and maturing. Our relationship has grown stronger.
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OMG!! Great looking pictures. I am so glad he has graduated, you can now breathe. So he will spending the next 16 weeks in Great Lakes. My son's name is Todd Blackburn. Maybe Jordan can ask around and see the they could hook up. My son just entered phase 2 of the program. Which means he has a little more freedom now. I am not on this site as much now, but I would like to keep in touch with you. My e-mail address is ktepbl@gmail.com. Good Luck to you and your family.
Love all the pictures you took. It is the the day after graduation. How is he doing and the family? Now you will have so much commication with him. I think I remember you saying he will be a hospital corspman. He should be somewhere near my son. I would think he starts school Monday. I can't wait to hear from you.
Kathy
You will find this site very helpful and full of members who are eager to answer your questions. Browse around the site and check out the forums, groups, blogs, photos, videos, and even the other member profiles!
If you haven’t already, please make sure that you review our Community Guidelines to learn the “Do’s and Don’ts” of the community.
Also, check out this OPSEC Internet Safety Video
Enjoy your time here! I look forward (along with the community) to reading more about you! :)
-Colleen