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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

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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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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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ILLINOIS N4M

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Who wants to make an Illinois N4M site with me? Calling all Illinois Sailor families.

Members: 402
Latest Activity: Apr 7, 2021

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Comment by AngiePNMx2 on August 2, 2012 at 12:24am: Hi gals!! Have been out of town with no internet service of any kind...just geting. Caught back up....would love to go to lunch! Would even consider one of those "overnighters" we talked about at lunch last time....we will be back to I'LL tomorrow so I will watch for details!

Comment by Sanmor on August 1, 2012 at 10:22pm: I am up for anywhere, since we could possibly car pool too. More so if I don't know where I am going lol

Comment by medic mom on August 1, 2012 at 9:48pm: Well gals let's see what we can do about getting together before Sanmor and I get busy marching. LOL Does anyone have a problem with meeting up in Springfield? That way some of the gals down that way can make it. Or if there is another destination you would like to meet just let us know. I know that I could use a Navy Mom lunch pretty soon. Any dates that would work before September? Let's get together. Let me know and I will see about getting it together.

Comment by Dodie on August 1, 2012 at 9:33pm: navym29, I am in Carlinville.

An update about my son...He left for GL in early Oct 2010. He will be graduating from nuclear protoype training this Friday. His wife of 4 wks flew out to Charleston, SC to attend his graduation & the 2 of them will make the long trip back to IL where he will be home on leave for Aug before reporting to Pearl Harbor. Heaven only knows when he will be home again, so I am really looking forward to having him home for a bit. I guess I'll be planning a Hawaiian vacation some time next year...

Comment by PAM (GM MOM) on August 1, 2012 at 9:31pm: I would love to meet for lunch however I do work Saturdays until 12:30, if it was a late lunch I could make it or come alittle late. Just let me know and I will do my best to make it.

Comment by lauren on August 1, 2012 at 4:23pm: It has been awhile. So I would like to welcome all our new family. And I guess
Spend the next two days reading and catching up on everything.

Comment by Sanmor on August 1, 2012 at 4:20pm: You know I am there for a lunch {:oD

I am also in the same boat as medic mom, not available during marching season.

Comment by medic mom on August 1, 2012 at 4:17pm: Navym29 any time you wanna meet just let us know. It would be great to get together. Right now I have Saturdays free for a little bit. Marching band season doesn't get rolling until the first Saturday in September. Then my Saturdays get busy until the first Saturday in November. Just name a day and a place and time and I am sure we could get some of us gals together and enjoy a LONG lunch and Navy talk.

Comment by medic mom on August 1, 2012 at 4:15pm: Jn/Jf Mom that is great. My son is a Greenside Corpsman. He loves it. I got to hear the best description of a Greenside Corpsman from my cousin who is in the Army. He called them Marines trapped in a Sailors body. I get confused as to which branch he is actually in. My heart says Navy and I trust that. I am one proud Navy mom.