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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.
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:
**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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Thank ladies. I've known my boyfriend for about 7 1/2 years and we've been together for almost 2. He means everything to me and this experience is definitely tugging at our strength. But he's the greatest person I've ever met.
Dawnn, I have no complaints about the buffing up part :] haha I'm sure working out will make him feel better, because of the endorphins released. Once again, no complaints. lol
Janet, make sure your daughter is writing her boyfriend as much as possible. I absolutely loved going out to my mailbox on Tuesdays and having a stack of letters to read. Hopefully she can come home for a bit after graduation. My boyfriend got to stay home for 2 weeks because it was Christmas/ New Year time. Best 2 weeks of my life....so far. I'm sure when my boy comes home next, it will be even better. It's about 5 months right now since the last time I saw him. This is the toughest thing I've ever had to do: stay miles away from the man I love.
Now the question is....when will I get that ring? :-D
Hi Everyone, I don't look on here too often, spend most of my time on the Stennis group page. My son deployed July 25th and it has been very hard. I have been sending care packages and had not heard from him until last week when they were in Malaysia.
Dawnn - I am on the Central Coast of California. I think my son is a blue shirt, but not quite sure. He just graduated bootcamp on April 22nd, so things have gone pretty fast.
Can't answer that one. My son came out of boot camp undesignated airman. He went to P'cola for some type of basic aviation training to get him ready to go to the ship. When he got to San Diego the ship had already deployed and he had to wait a few months before they could get him to the ship and when he got there he was assigned to V3 (hanger bay). Of course that was seven and half yrs ago, things change.
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