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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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Moms of "A" school Sailors
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Our sailors are now in "A" school - let's share!!
Members: 960
Latest Activity: Dec 3, 2022
Discussion Forum
Leave during A School
Started by azmom. Last reply by Anti M Sep 8, 2015. 1 Reply 1 Like
Pensacola for A School
Started by azmom. Last reply by Bernapet Aug 9, 2015. 3 Replies 3 Likes
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Comment by Jana on July 4, 2013 at 7:54am
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AMLsMom I just joined this group. your son is an IC so is mine!! Join the group
IC Sailors Paige the admin. it the best as well as all moms
My son PIR was 5/31 He was on hold for about 2weeks also.
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Comment by Coach Shelia on July 4, 2013 at 7:11am
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Happy July 4th everyone! God Bless You All and Your Navy Loved Ones Today and Forever!
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Comment by AMLsMom on July 2, 2013 at 2:30pm
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Does anyone have a sailor in GL A School with I.C. Fireman Recruit for their training?
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Comment by Bug's Mom on July 2, 2013 at 2:02pm
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My daughter graduated from Great Lakes on Friday 6/28...she loves it so far and holds her head high wearing that uniform!!! She's in Pensacola right now for A school...getting used to the base. So proud, as I'm sure the rest of you are...can't believe the feeling I get when I look at my girl, now a woman!!!
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Comment by Jesmom6 on July 2, 2013 at 12:07pm
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My son had PIR on Friday 6/28 and is at Great Lakes. He's enjoying it so far, especially with the marina right there where he can go fishing! Two weeks of hold and then ATT starts for him.
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Comment by Jenn Z on July 1, 2013 at 8:14pm
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my son also graduated 6/28 now in Meridian
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Just wondering if there is a moms group for A School in Great Lakes for different MOS.
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Comment by shirleyann on July 1, 2013 at 11:33am
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Hi--my son graduated June 28, 2013 and is there now!!!
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My sailor graduated basic 5/24/13 and went straight to the Pensacola A school. He just graduated from there today. He has a bit of leave before he flies out to his destination mid July. I don't know where you live, but if it is far away tell your sailor to start saving for a ticket to go home after he graduates. We were faced with a few hours notice and coluld have flown to Europe for what a 'now' ticket cost for him to come home. Even after he knew when he would graduate, he still had not received his orders to deploy. He has to go home for a few days and then fly back to Pensacola to fly out again to Houston the next day.
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Comment by Hello2u on June 28, 2013 at 6:56pm
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Hello, anyones elses son/daugther in Panama City, FL A School?
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