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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.
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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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GM Moms
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Group for Moms of Gunners Mates in A School or on Duty
Members: 212
Latest Activity: Feb 14, 2020
Discussion Forum
A school
Started by TravelMomma!. Last reply by Mamma073 Feb 14, 2020. 3 Replies 1 Like
A school
Started by Carlsmom. Last reply by Carlsmom Sep 27, 2017. 6 Replies 1 Like
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Comment by jlpmom3 on August 21, 2014 at 12:13pm
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Yay! A connection......I love it. I'm sure they do know each other. My son says it's a fairly small group. I wish there was a safe way to share names so we could see if they knew each other. Is he liking school? Are you by chance able to go to the graduation? I won't be able to as we live on the west coast and airfare is so expensive
So glad to connect with you!
Thanks for getting back to me!
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Mik3tn(ship12Div047
Has your sailor started school yet? After 4 weeks of ATT and another week of indoc mine is finally in! Week two and loving it! I wonder if ours in together?
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Comment by D C on August 20, 2014 at 3:34pm
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Hi ! New to group and my daughter leaves in 5 days !! Her first job will be GM I'm getting sad that she will be gone so long !
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Comment by jrw105 on August 19, 2014 at 11:52am
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Hi There,
I recently went through the PIR at Great Lakes. My son is awaiting A School. He told me after docs that he would be starting on 23rd of Aug. So he's waiting a few more days.
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Comment by jeepmom on August 17, 2014 at 6:14pm
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Hi there, new to group, but have another sailor who is AD. Daughter is graduating A school this week. Stationed San Diego(where we live) no hard copies on orders,yet.Cannot wait to see her! It's been 5 months
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Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on June 30, 2014 at 3:34pm
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jlpmom3, there are different kinds of GM's. Mine does small arms, but there are GM's that deal with missiles, etc. Check out the discussion forum for the discussion of what a GM can do.
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Thanks Ruth.....10 years in the Navy as a GM is a good sign to me that this is a good job! :)
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My son has been in the Navy for 10 years and a GM. He was on a carrier for the first deployment, but wasn't crazy about carrier life. He's been land based ever since, going to A-stan twice. He's in the States now, but we never know when he'll be sent in support of some special sailors.
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That's a good question! He was told he was on hold for a month but on friday after finishing in doc he got a paper that he was told would tell him his start date and it said "unavailable" on it. I hope he's not waiting months and months. I have no idea how one would go about finding out when school starts.
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Hi GM moms! My son just PIRed on 6/20/14 on hold for GM A school for a month. We are all excited for him. How are all your gunner's mates liking their job? What places have they gone?
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