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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.
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."
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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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
Started by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy. Last reply by lemonelephant Oct 28, 2013. 6 Replies 2 Likes
Here are the packages, prices and important things to know as of 8/26/10: Your recruits picture will be taken in their Navy Blue uniform and these are very nice, professional portraits. No order…Continue
Started by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy. Last reply by MomOfFutureAM (Ship12Div387) Oct 2, 2013. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Only O'Hare (ORD) and Midway (MDW) have USO centers, the airport in Milwaukee (MKE) does not. The USO at O'Hare is located OUTSIDE of the secured area in Terminal 2 above the Delta Airlines Ticket…Continue
Started by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy. Last reply by MomOfFutureAM (Ship12Div387) Oct 2, 2013. 19 Replies 8 Likes
Liberty is different than Leave. Leave is similiar to requesting time off for vacation at work, they must submit a chit and have it approved. Liberty basically means that they have "liberty" to…Continue
Started by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy. Last reply by JessicaB-Sailor Mom Apr 14, 2011. 6 Replies 0 Likes
This was put together by gigi65 (thanks!). These are the items you will want to mail to your recruit NOW so they can hand you the answers on PIR day. They will not know the exact answers until 1-3…Continue
Started by chew92. Last reply by chew92 Jan 26, 2011. 3 Replies 0 Likes
After PIR 1/21/11 my son moved over to his A school at Great Lakes. He was able to call me to pick him up after he was processed into his new quarters and I met him at the Visitors Center next to…Continue
Started by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours). Last reply by momofcurtis Sep 20, 2010. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Okay - My son is 818 Spec Ops was grad n go.... Here is how it went down... ****foot note on PIR**** - can you say TRAFFIC!!! geeze - I am sooo glad we took the rental car and not the shuttle... we…Continue
Started by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons. Last reply by momofcurtis Sep 4, 2010. 34 Replies 0 Likes
I wanted to to try and help the families of those who are grad and go with a charted flight. This is a new area and I guess the Navy doesn't charter flights very often. In fact the nice man at the…Continue
Started by bethe Aug 1, 2010. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Oh Lala, I feel your pain! I cried when I read your posting because we went through the same thing! My younger son and I walked all over that entire airport hoping to find my son. Finally at 0700…Continue
Started by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy. Last reply by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy Jul 28, 2010. 2 Replies 0 Likes
This was cut and pasted from the Navy's own site (see Hoppi's discussion on this groups page). The word "rate" is used in two ways within the structure. First, rate is a paygrade. Enlisted navy…Continue
Started by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy. Last reply by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy Jul 8, 2010. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Trying to paste the CNN video about BS-21, hope this works! <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="…Continue
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@ Kathy: My son is also an IT, so maybe I can help you. They are actually sent to Corry Station, a small base a few miles from the big base in Pensacola. My son loved it there, very home-like, friendly and close to the beach. Being a small base, they phase up for liberty faster. They also tend to "class-up" faster there too (start their schooling within a few weeks after arriving there). The classes are self paced, the average person finishes in about 10-12 weeks. Then they may still stay there for a week or so before they move on. Not all IT's go on to C-school, it depends on their orders. My son needed to learn specialized things so he could do his job on the ship he will be on. My son was a GnG, so we had Friday after PIR to spend with him, then met him at the airport at "dark thirty" in the morning. We were allowed to go through security and sit with him in the terminal until his flight left at 1pm. Please read the main info on this page, as we want people to remember that although there may be Norms, each sailors experience can be different.
Oh... and join the IT Moms group if you haven't already, there's a wealth of info there too!
@ Angie: Long time no see! Hope you are well. I'm rarely on this anymore, but I am trying to check this page at least once a week.
Happy New Year to everyone! 8 days until we see our sailor in Norfolk. Lisa/Sobe
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