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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 Debbie (Stephen's mom) on October 25, 2009 at 7:58pm
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Ruth, I bet you are tired, just put your feet up and relax, enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Lovemysailor, we would love to have you, this is going to be some get together. I am from Alsip.
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Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on October 24, 2009 at 9:27pm
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Good news--my son's LPO (lead petty officer) has offered him a ride to the airport now. Thank you, Paula, for offering to take him--that was so generous considering it was so out of your way. I agree, though, I would have done the same--Navy moms are like that!
On another positive note--his phone has been giving him problems for months. AT&T told him he had to go to the store he bought it at--Norfolk. I went to AT&T at the mall in Moline and talked to an employee who was a ten year Army veteran. No more problems--he did whatever he had to do in the computer and my son can go to Gurnee and resolve the problem.
I am exhausted tonight! Took two Brownies (one my son's daughter) to Iowa City to Girl Scout University. Four try-it's earned; a walk around the Old Capitol; another walk around the Herbert Hoover Presidential National Park; she's asleep on the couch and I'm not far behind!
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Thanks Mary, I like to hear about our sailors. Just don't forget everyone bring pictures I would love to see pictures, if you have any. LOL
Ok Annie!
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Paula thanks for doing that, hope we get lots.
Annie if you are going lets carpool!
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Ruth did you say your son is at Great Lakes?
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Annie I did not know that I will have to go to Walmart, thanks, I know Sears on 111th and Cicero also has a hero's wall plus they do donate tools and other items to sailors. Annie would love to have you the more the better.
How is the 4th sounding for everyone?
Hi Ruth! I know what you are saying, I am just glad my son is happy and doing great. He is going to the ball on Friday, he is selling tickets for it and then he will sell tickets at the door and then he can party. LOL I would love to see him in his uniform, how handsome he is going to look!
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I deleted my previous message because I might have written too much info.I want to add, too, that while we aren't sad he's in the Navy, we do miss him. Here's some of the message that Debbie responded to:
My son is an instructor GM on the simulation range at the RTC. He says he runs a daycare! Some of our recruits don't know how to follow directions. He says it might be the simulation range, but they have to take it seriously because he won't let them go to the live range if they don't. I've heard that he also tells the recruits to write their moms!
When he went into the Navy, we knew it was what he'd wanted to do for a long time (Boy Scout and jrROTC). While we miss him, it's rare that I'm sad that he's away. Actually, we talk more now than when he was living at home! He calls all the time. Even when he was deployed on the Roosevelt he called from every port; when he was in poppyland for almost a year, he called almost everyday. He is divorced and has two little girls that we see a lot now. He calls them when we have them, too.
We raised him to be independent and a good man, so how can we be sad that he has become what we wanted him to be? I also had a chief tell me that the Navy owns him now, not his momma. I couldn't be prouder.
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November 4th is good for me around 6:30, so far so good!
I love the Rock Island it is so ez to get around, I know what you are saying Ruth but I do miss my son very much, I never thought he would be so far away from me. But he is happy so that is all that matters to me.
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Hi, I think any day next week is good for me! How does it look for everyone else? Yes we have to do it before the Holidays or we will have to wait until January and then you never know how the weather is going to be! LOL
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Paula you must be so proud, she must love what she is doing. I love Magianno's on Oak Brook, lets see if we can pick a date, I will check my calendar and lets go, that would be so much fun.
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