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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

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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DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP!

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Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on September 8, 2011 at 7:04am: slapout52 - 90 days of kitchen duty or office laundry.....laundry is what Katie did on the Essex.

Comment by KatG on September 8, 2011 at 1:25am: @ slapout52 - Yes, they all get to do "cranking" as part of their first deployment. It depends on the necessity of their job while underway, as to when they will do it. My son is finishing up his cranking during the Tiger Cruise. I'm sure he's exhausted and wishing he could be doing just his DC duties. lol

Comment by slapout52 on September 7, 2011 at 9:28pm: And another thing! My Sailor is underway & he says he's crankin. He isn't happy about it. Does everyone do this, regardless of rating?

Comment by slapout52 on September 6, 2011 at 9:52am: One Sailor on a short run this week--It's his first time out--& got another one sitting in a hotel room on the other side of the world, waiting to be flown to her ship.

Comment by slapout52 on August 26, 2011 at 1:39pm: I have an "adopted" Sailor in addition to my son. She is another DC just out of A school. She was supposed to go to Norfolk & from there to join a ship already underway. I'm thinking it would make a lot of sense if the Navy did not make any new Sailors report to Norfolk this week! Lori tell your son hurricanes are tons of fun until the power has been out for 3 days & the fridge is empty! LOL We went through Hurricane Ivan where we live. Only good thing was the days off from school.

Comment by Jason and Jake's mom on August 26, 2011 at 10:13am: hi slapout..my son's ship is in dry dock. He got an apartment but doesnt move in till the 7th. he has a shipmate that is letting him stay with him this weekend otherwise he would have had to stay with the ship through this storm. They have been told to go home after work today and stay there. This will be his first hurricane. Needless to say I am a bit nervous unlike him. He said he is kinda excited about expieriencing it. I told him he was nuts!!

Comment by slapout52 on August 25, 2011 at 5:50pm: Lori--He reported to Mayport. His ship is IN at the moment. Mayport doesn't seem to be in Irene's way--at least not like Norfolk is.

Comment by Jason and Jake's mom on August 25, 2011 at 2:03pm: Hi slapout...does that mean his is at sea? What ship is he on?

Comment by slapout52 on August 25, 2011 at 10:18am: My DC joins the fleet today!

Comment by nicksmum on August 12, 2011 at 8:40pm: thanks guys, left a message for nick on facebook, he got a computer yesterday, he doesn't know when his ship is coming back so he is just waiting around the base, keeping busy.

hope you all have a great weekend, angela