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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.
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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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Hello my name is Keisha and i am the creator of this group. Thanks for joining and i hope that all the advice this group gives is helpful
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Discussion Forum
Help needed!!
Started by Nia. Last reply by Nia Sep 7, 2022. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Hi everyone! My name is Nia, I’m new here. I just have a question that have been giving me anxiety lately. So my boyfriend has been emailing me every morning and sometimes night overseas, and then suddenly the flow has stopped out of no where. I’ve…Continue
advice!
Started by Mykenzie Apr 1, 2022. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Hi ladies!I just would love some advice on this current topic my significant other and i are having currently. without saying too much he’s enlisted in the navy and i am currently a university student. his work peers really value his work and his…Continue
Graduation coming up
Started by Kelly Jan 9, 2022. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Hi,Im new here and I am glad that I found a group that share my confusion during new path of couple life. My boyfriend is due to graduate on the 28th and I am so sad I can't make it to see him. Mainly cause he only had two invites and family comes…Continue
Hubby shipping off to BC June 24!
Started by TARA. Last reply by Kaylee Sep 29, 2020. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Hi Everyone,I am new to this group and would like to say how thankful I am for finding a community of Navy wives, fiancés and girlfriends who can lend support to each other. A short background of our Navy journey - my guy wanted to sign up as EM…Continue
New here!
Started by Linda Jane. Last reply by Kaylee Sep 29, 2020. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Hi. I just joined last night. I wanted to introduce myself. I’m linda. My boyfriend is in Great Lakes now for basic training ship 02 Div 950. Then after graduation he immediately ships off to A school in SC. This is all extremely new to me and his…Continue
Fiancé Advice
Started by Lauren C. Last reply by astc Sep 26, 2019. 5 Replies 0 Likes
My fiance just joined the Navy and was sent off to bootcamp this week. We've been together for almost six years and we plan to get married after bootcamp is over.> I was hoping you could tell me if waiting until bootcamp is over was the smart…Continue
Good neighborhoods around Great Lakes IL??
Started by Artfulmind. Last reply by WCK110658 Jul 9, 2019. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Hi everyone! Hubs, baby, and I will be stationed in Great Lakes soon was wondering if anyone new of some good safe family friendly neighborhoods to rent a place? We don't mind being a half hour or so away from base. Heard the surrounding…Continue
Hello Everyone!
Started by mommasett. Last reply by Anti M Mar 27, 2019. 1 Reply 1 Like
Happy Hump day to all!! I am new here and I am so glad that I have found this group! I am hoping it helps in my journey with my boyfriend and understanding his Navy Life a little better. Continue
POA to get a military i.d.
Started by Hafaadai. Last reply by Ib_vv_N Feb 23, 2019. 7 Replies 3 Likes
Hi! My SR left for BC on 28th of Nov. I received THE BOX on Dec. 6th. Still waiting on his form letter, personal letter and DEERS. He did not leave me a POA before he left because the recruiter said we won’t really need it until he gets out of BC.…Continue
sending photos
Started by lifesimplified Feb 20, 2019. 0 Replies 0 Likes
My boyfriend shipped out on 2/11/19. I just received his box but no form letter yet. As soon as I get his address, I will be writing him daily and sending many photos. I read somewhere on this forum that the recruits must show all photos to the…Continue
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Comment by ilovenick on March 15, 2010 at 10:36pm
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Nice to meet you Jenny! Do you have any suggestions for some nice places to live around Norfolk area? My fiance will actually be in Oceania but I am going to go to school at Norfolk so we were thinking somewhere in between..
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Thanks Jenny :) How old are you ? Where is your hubby at right now & what is his job? I will have to join that group!!
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Comment by Anti M on March 15, 2010 at 1:50pm
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Marking off a calendar for kids, well, you have to be careful. We all know the Navy can change things up, so any set date can change. I've heard of making paper chains, a link each day, then use them to decorate for homecoming.
Get pictures of Daddy in every uniform he has... I threw a fit when dad came home and was a chief in Khakis instead of in his crackerjacks which he wore when he left on deployment! I was so little I don't recall that now, but mom always told me the story. I don't know what mom did, but I know I hung on my brothers until they got sick of me!
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Hi everyone :)! My name is Emily & my fiance has been in the Navy since August 2009. We are getting married in July & he is getting ready to get deployed! This is his first deployment & we are both very nervous!! We are going to be stationed in VA !! Anyone here stationed there with their spouses?
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Comment by KatNMac on March 15, 2010 at 3:03am
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correction.. a group for anyone with loved ones one the USS NASSAU..
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If you have a facebook.. come join this group.. http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=USS+NASSAU&init=quick#!/group.php?gid=416407576280&ref=mf .... Its a group with anyone with loved ones on the USS NASSAU!!
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Comment by msmilegurl4 on March 15, 2010 at 2:35am
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Hey,
So I'm new to the site and also to the Navy wife thing. My husband left at the beginning of the month, and I'm trying really hard to keep my head up but it's harder than I thought it was gonna be. Any advice about what to tell my two year old who is looking around and asking for her daddy? I have been telling her that daddy's at work, but now when I leave her with the baby sitter and tell her I"m going to work we have a big break down. He doesn't graduate until the end of April so we still have about 6 weeks to go and my poor little girl is so confused..
Thanks for listening and any advice is greatly appreciated.
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And like your license, your picture is guaranteed to be as bad as humanly possible.
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Just remember, most of the Navy women are professionals, and wouldn't dream of hitting on a married guy. Sure, there's a few bad ones, but that's the same anywhere. And sometimes a girl is just friendly, and the guy instantly thinks she's hitting on him! I know that feeling pretty well. You just have to trust him, the same way he trusts you. You can do this!
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Comment by Mrs. STS <3 on March 13, 2010 at 10:39pm
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As said in a previous post.. if a man is going to cheat it doenst matter if hes military or civilian.. if he wants to do it hes going to do it nothing anyone can do to stop him.. but being a navy wife u need to have all the trust and support in the world for your sailor... Me and my fiance have been together for a whle now and there are plenty of girls that hit on him in port... and he tells them hes engaged.. if they keep it up he simply stops talking to them.... its as simple as that.... you need to have all the trust u can for your sailor.. 9 times out of 10 if u are worried about it and they know that then they are probably going to think the same thing whle they are away from u.... and u wouldnt cheat on your man right?! if they love u as much as u love them then u need to realize "hey i wouldnt cheat bc i love him" and think that if he loves u as much as u love him then he's thinking the same exact thing.. if u are worried about it while hes gone then its just going to make him worry that u cant handle it and that u are doing it back home... trust your man and trust that he knows when to set those other girls straight and that he has his values and family at heart at all times as im sure you do. :)
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