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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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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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Comment by slapout52 on June 21, 2012 at 7:29pm
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We do have a group for his ship & I have talked with several of those moms. I even had a chance to meet a couple of the Sailors. It is like boot camp when it comes to communication. I will be writing lots of letters, sending CARE packages, and like my fellow Army moms, looking for that GREEN DOT on Facebook so we can chat occasionally. Don't know about internet access aboard. I know he has had it some when underway. Lisbeth, he is aboard one of the guided missile cruisers that left in the battle group with the Eisenhower.
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Deployed as of yesterday. Help me out here, sistahs!
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http://sweetteaetc.blogspot.com/2012/05/decoration-day-rethinking-t...
A link for all of you. Read & share if you like. Many thanks to all.l
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@Charlotte--Thanks for asking. My Sailor will be on a guided missile cruiser as part of a battle group. They can't really say much else. Deployment early summer. My Soldier just got his blue Infantry cords in their Turning Blue ceremony at Ft. Benning. Tomorrow is graduation!!!! So excited and looking forward to taking him home even though it's just for a few days.
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Soldier graduates from OSUT this week so we will definitely be at Ft. Benning for that! My Sailor will be home for a few days prior to his deployment, so I will have them both home at once, probably for the last time for many months.
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Comment by NavyMom SWCC candidate on May 21, 2012 at 8:42pm
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I received my son's box and form with a letter on the back. He said the guys he's with are awesome and he's loving it. He's in Special Ops so I was told I cannot give a lot of info about myself or my son.
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Hi TmSwitz--Welcome to the best bunch of moms! I am in Elmore Co. My Sailor has been in 1 year & will deploy next month. Please post often about your journey with your SR & be sure to go to PIR so we can hear all about it! You will be so amazed. I have a SOLDIER too. He graduates from Ft. Benning next week!!!
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My son just left yesterday for boot camp. I'm still adjusting to him being gone. I'm missing him like crazy.
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Left out National Guard from that last post. Sorry!
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Charlotte you are so kind to say so! It was a fine day for us for sure, and even more of a treasure when I consider that my Sailor's summer deployment and my Soldier going airborne will mean very few days for all 4 of us to be together. Please share the link to the blog with any moms or families who might have a Sailor, Soldier, Airman, Marine, or Guardian.
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