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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.
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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Just got out 2nd Class Parents Weekend Packet..... Seems like our PPW packet arrived just yesterday.... It is hard to believe it has been 2 years since Plebe Summer. I continue to be in awe of how much he has grown.
Truly saddened to hear of the loss of our Navy Seals. RIP. My prayers go out to the families and the comrades...
Jackie....If you have received the packet for PPW he has listed you as his parent.
I am with Barbara trying sending him a care package of his favorite things along with a note telling him how proud you are of him. See where it goes from there. Good luck!
Thank you, Barbara--that was encouraging. It's so helpful to hear the real scoop from someone who's been there. Yes, I received the PPW packet in the mail last week. I called one of the contact numbers and was told that the Plebes submit their parents' names & addresses at one of the stations on I day. Can you tell me: do the Plebes understand that their parents are getting an invitation? It probably sounds like a weird question, but it's very important for me to know whether he voluntarily invited me.
P.S. I found him in a photo on the USNA Facebook page! His company was on the obstacle course. It was the first time I had "laid eyes" on him in two years. God bless those photographers for giving us a window into their world.
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