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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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A school then onto Japan for DC
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Comment by MDS1962 on July 19, 2010 at 10:41pm
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My son is just getting started with the enlistment process. He took the apptitude test and scored an 82. He is now scheduled for the physical (MEP?). He is very healthy with no prior hx so I think he will be fine. I hear that he could pick a job following his exam. However, the only job (rating) he is interested in is Damage Control. Is it very difficult to get this rating. Is it overmanned? I have so many questions and this site has been great. Thanks to all the moms that post the information it is very informative and comforting.
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Comment by Docsangel on July 9, 2010 at 2:27pm
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Judyann: thanks for the welcome, I just spoke to my son, he called me for the first time since he left home!!! He originally wanted to go to San Diego where his dad and brother had both been stationed but he got engaged PIR weekend and now wants to be closer to her (that's why I didn't get any calls during BC!) she is in Ohio (I am in Florida). He sounds so much different but yet still the same.
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Comment by MarianneKT's Mom on July 8, 2010 at 2:18pm
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Gator Cruise (it's called that on the USS Essex because its nickname is the Iron Gator) or Tiger Cruise is where family/friends can go on the ship and see what their sailor does, lives, eats...........ours will be a 3 day cruise.
Katie's ship is an amphibious assault ship, so it has 1,200 sailors and they stop in Okinawa to pick up 1,800 marines and their equipment, etc.
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Thanks for the welcome ladies. Marianne, how awesome to get to see your daughter in Japan!! My husband was stationed in Okinowa during Viet Nam and he still talks about it.
OK, I'm new here, what's a Gator Cruise?
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Hi Docsangel - Katie started her DC school in Jan 2009 and was finished by the end of March. Left for Japan the 25th of April. It's nice when they are at A school so you can talk to them more often. The Engineering Divisions have restrictions on what they can have and receive, so check it out. I leave tomorrow for Japan to see my Katie. Their ship just passed their INSURV. Now they are hosting 150 for the upcoming Gator Cruise .
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Hi Ladies, My son starts DC A school at GL on 10 July 10. We just got back from Chicago last week for his PIR, emotions are still pretty high. This website and it's moms have been a real life line so far and everyone has been so amazing, I am hoping you moms can help me through this next new phase.
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Soon I'll be headed off to Japan to see my DCFN Katie. Her ship is hosting a Gator Cruise. Anyone else had the opportunity to go on a Tiger Cruise?
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Comment by Ozzy on June 7, 2010 at 1:20pm
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My son recently took the Navy Oath and chose the job as a Damage Controlman. I am grateful to find this site, and have been reading everything I can about the Navy and DC's. He will be going to Boot Camp on March 30, 2011, which seems so far away for him and too close for me! I will lurk and read around and ask questions as I need to, for now just wanted to say hello.
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Oh, I guess if I read all my posts I would have found the answer to my own question. Grintwig, I see your son is a DC out of WA on the John Stennis?? Katie is a DC over in Japan on the USS Essex and has been for over a year.
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