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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:
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
DLI grad gift for CTI
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life at DLI
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Comment by KC'smom on November 15, 2011 at 3:06pm
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The KC app is just a free countdown application I loaded on my smart phone. I named it the KC countdown. (I call my son KC on here). My son bought his ticket home ready! West coast to east coast... $500 on Travelocity
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Comment by DisneyDebi (02/903) on November 15, 2011 at 1:31pm
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What is a KC app? Thank you so much for all the info - I'm looking forward to learning more and being an active CTI mom - whatever that will mean LOL
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Comment by lisab4 on November 15, 2011 at 11:18am
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The KC app sounds great! Our son will get to come home for the holidays, but a daughter of a Navy mom friend had her leave home cancelled for Christmas.Let's keep our fingers crossed! Our son said that he can hear the seals in the morning in Monterrey-how cool is that?
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Me too! I have a countdown to KC app loaded on my cell phone home screen that tells me the exact number of days hours minutes and seconds until I see my boy! I've only seen him 9 hrs since he left for boot camp 7 months ago. I start to cry every time I think about him coming home.
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Oh - got it! I just sent to the discussion and printed out a bunch of stuff - good reading material tonight!
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Comment by Lisa (A-Mac's mom) on November 14, 2011 at 8:49pm
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It stands for Defense Language Institute. That is the school your son will attend. It is a school (run by the Army) where all the branches go to train for languages.
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Thank you Lisa - I saw that but I didn't know what DLI was LOL
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Debi, there is a link just above that's title "Helpful DLI link for newbies." It will give you some basic information. Also, do a internet search for DLI. I found a really interested CNN clip on the school and what they do and how they train. I didn't save the link. So, sorry, I can't pass it on to you.
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My son was an AC but is color blind so they reclassified him to a CTI - he graduates on 12/2 and then heads off to Monterey! We are in So. Cal so of course I couldn't be happier :)
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Comment by greenoak on November 14, 2011 at 8:36pm
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My daughter starts her language this week also after a change, my hubby also was a nuke submariner twenty odd years ago, is it ok to say what subs he was on?
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