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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 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.
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Wish I would have gone on this site sooner!
My son signed the paperwork before he even graduated from high school and kept telling me to go on this site. I never listened thinking that I could handle it since I already went thru my other son going into the Army Reserves. I will tell you having my son leave was more than I could handle and even going thru it with my other son didn't prepare me for what I had to go thru. This site has helped so very much cuz I now know that I'm not the only parent that will cry at a drop of a hat, and that even though I have other children, the one that is gone is more than I can really deal with. I respect his decision and am so very proud but with the world today I constantly worry and fret about him (and my other son). I wish I would have come to this site sooner and seen what to expect and seen that I'm not the only other mother that isn't crazy becuz I can't stop crying or seem like there is a hole in my heart. We as mother's have the best and worst jobs, teaching our children the best we can and then the worst part is letting go and letting them move on! I feel for each and everyone on this site and know how you feel but this is their decision and we must just be proud, support them, and let them live their lives! Love to everyone!
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Permalink Reply by Luvn_my_Navy_son(ship 11/div184) on
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My son went to BC this past April & I didn't cry too much, but had a hard time just functioning. I have 3 other children, but the absence of my son was felt so prominently so I know where you are coming from. I cried the hardest when Facebook posted pictures & I thought I saw my son in one, but he was way in the back. I sent my son the picture & when he said "That's me" I cried for over 1/2 an hour. My husband thought I had lost my mind :) It is hard to have them gone, but it makes seeing them again so much sweeter!
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