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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.
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.
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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The heart and soul of the Navy-the cook! Let's swap stories and exchange info about our loved ones being a CS in the Navy!
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Comment by navywife36542 on August 17, 2014 at 8:57am
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Lovely_ sailorswife,.... they will be told where they are going 2 weeks before they graduate. they will not get their orders in hand until the week they graduate.
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after pir they will be told that they will have a 9 day hold on them NO they will stay in gl for about 3 weeks. Then go to A school in fort lee. Va. They will be there for about another 52 days. I am going through with it rig now with my husband. he is in A school CS in ft. lee and thank god he graduates this friday.
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Comment by oregonmom on August 16, 2014 at 11:32pm
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My son went to Ft Lee. I think your recruiter has old info.
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VC: Thanks for the information.
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Comment by VC on August 14, 2014 at 3:16pm
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5 weeks. My son left GL on Saturday June 14. Started A school on Monday, June 16 and he finish it on July 18. On July 19 he came home for 10 days! :-)
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How long is A school for CS? I've heard three different things. My son leaves for Fort Lee Saturday, Aug. 16.
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Comment by Lovely_SailorsWife on August 12, 2014 at 8:10pm
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Thank you!!!
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My sailor found out about two weeks before A school was over. So it's closer to the end than to the middle.
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Hello all! My sailor is going to A School soon in the middle of August. I was wondering when your sailors found out where they were assigned- does the Navy wait until the very end to let them know? Or does it happen in the middle?
Thank you!
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I agree with Michelle about the sailors being a little spoiled after PIR. They have a lot more liberty. My son was shocked at the difference. He is graduating CS school this Friday and has been assigned to USS Gonzalez in Norfolk. He never complained about A school in VA though. We still text or talk on the phone every day and his room was really nice.
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