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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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Discussion Forum
Any Meet and Greet For Navy Moms In the Chicago area?
Started by Amorresperroz. Last reply by Amorresperroz Jul 25, 2016. 2 Replies 0 Likes
mailing our sailors a box...
Started by Theresa. Last reply by Pat L. in IL Aug 9, 2013. 3 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by becky m on February 24, 2010 at 8:27pm
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Paula how nice that you will have Holly home. Mary how's that baby doing?? 4 works for me.
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Comment by Coco on February 24, 2010 at 9:09am
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Thank you everyone for your advice and suggestions! It is keeping me going! And its very nice to hear words of wisdom because sometimes Boot Camp Moms gets a little depressing. We are on week 4 at bootcamp (or 3 depending if you count processing). We (his girlfriend) got the first letter Monday that he had started receiving all our letters. Hopefully I will get a similar letter today. So that is a huge relief since we were about week behind everyone else in mailing letters thanks to his dad and stepmom not giving us the address. The last few letters before he got our letters were kinda sad - he kept asking why haven't you written and sounded down and confused because everyone else was getting letters. I know mom's first - but I my son and I had a long talk before he left because he was worried people would be mad at him if he didn't write all the time. So I told him if he only had limited time or energy to write then write his girlfriend first, she agreed to keep me in the loop and then I update the family from there. Which I am very okay with!
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Collette...LOL...I guess I need my own identity don't I...I am more than Lewis's mom :). I still get teary eyed every day. Today I had a really cool out of the blue conversation with a total stranger about my Navy son...it was pretty darn cool...first conversation like that. I will keep the family in my prayers and I will say a prayer for the man who didn't want to talk about the Navy. Maybe he was having a bad day or maybe...he was wearing someone else's navy jacket.
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Comment by Debbie (Stephen's mom) on February 22, 2010 at 10:16pm
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Lewismom what is your name?
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LOL good for you Becky! I will keep that family in my prays and thoughts, I hate to hear that. Do you know what happen on the Reagan? I have the yearbook also Lewismom, I was looking at it today. They also design t-shirts, which my son ordered one for each of us, I was so surprise he did that, I wear it all the time.
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Aye! Please pray for a sailor and his family as he was killed on the Reagan on Friday. Lewismom I only received one call from BC . Hang tough no news is good news!!! I cried alot when mine was in BC. I cried at PIR from the time it started till it ended. Debbie is right it amazing and the pride you will feel is also amazing. Make sure your son orders the DVD of PIR. Sometimes when I miss mine I pull it out and watch it. Get this I went out the other nite and the was an older gentleman there with a Navy coat on> I went up to him and asked if he was in the Navy. He said yes. I said my son is in the Navy. He replied I don't want to talk about the Navy, to which I replied... I glad my son is serving in the Navy and I'm a proud Navy Mom. I walked away and left him dumbfounded!!
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Hello, where has everyone been! Have a good one!
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Hi Paula! What's happening!
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Lewismom, no calls? Don't worry he will call, just keep sending him letter, everyone in the family should write to him. Forget the girlfriend, mom comes first.LOL Can't wait to meet you too. March 26, well that is not too far away you are going to love it, PIR is beautiful, it was the most amazing event I have every seen.
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I am sooo excited to meet all of YOU! Going into my fourth week of boot camp. No calls but one letter to me and 8 to his beautiful girlfriend. Its hard but I am adjusting. His PIR is 3/26. I am for wherever you all want to meet...just suggest wherever we go we be able to make reservations given that its the Saturday before St. Patricks Day and people will be out.
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