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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:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
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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
Discussion Forum
IL Navy Moms
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Hello Illinois N4MS Memorial Day is vastly approahing, are they any Moms interested in meeting again?
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Can someone point me i nthe direction of the facebook group?
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Hi! New to group
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Comment by Pat L. in IL on July 7, 2011 at 12:22pm
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YES, lunch at my house around noon then off to ROCK!! Please see "Events" for address and LMK if you are coming!!!
BTW, I have Molly's Adopt A Sailor interview on HLN Leaders with Heart on my DVR!! Apparently this is the only place to see it (so far, darn you Casey Anthony for messing up our scheduled appearance)
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Comment by lauren on July 7, 2011 at 10:07am
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YES.....and ready to ROCK........you all coming to ROCKING for the troops this weekend ....are we stilling having lunch at PAT'S ???????
come on all lets release some stress by getting our dance on......
I'm driving from Central IL if anyone wants to ride......
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Lauren, He looks good! Praying for him EVERY day, honey. Did you get the email that I have your ticket?
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lookie Pat he gets to Wear his don't tread on me patch ....he was happy about that....it's camo colors but still with him
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http://www.refresheverything.com/specialhugs
here you go thanks thanks thanks
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Comment by AngiePNMx2 on July 6, 2011 at 10:35pm
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Jessica and Pam thanks for sharing your pictures!! Love all of them! Love seeing our sailors in iniform!
Lauren can you post the link for the Pepsi voting??? I did it last time but I don't have it any more!
I am heading to Bethesda to see sailor #2 tomorrow for a few days! Haven't seen in in 7 months!! Soon I will be heading to SD to see Sailor #1's ship come in...it will be over a year since I have seen him....CAN'T WAIT!!
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Pam, Nice pictures!!!! Thanks for sharing!!
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Comment by PAM (GM MOM) on July 6, 2011 at 10:16pm
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These are a few pictures of my son's graduation from GM school at Great Lakes June 24, 2011
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HI EVRY1....
Molly's Adopt A Sailor needs your help!! (remember MAS supports all branches of deployed troops)
On July 1st, 2011 Molly’s Adopt A Sailor made it to the Pepsi Refresh Everything round for another $50,000. This grant will allow us to include our Combat Hospitals as well as our deployed troops!!
We are asking everyone to help us win this grant. Until our troops come home…we need to continue to send the love and support they need. We may have another Combat Hospital needing our help. But, we currently don’t have the funding to support them. If we win this grant we can adopt another hospital! How wonderful would that be?!!
Here’s how you can help:
Vote through the Pepsi Refresh website. You must register with your email to vote. You can vote daily, PER email address!
Vote via text daily! Text 107637 to 73744 (normal text rates apply). Put 107637 in the body of your text and text it to Pepsi (73744).
There are these beautiful things called POWER VOTES and you can get them on specially marked Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max 20 oz. bottles, 2 liter bottles, 12 can packages, 20 can packages, and 24 can packages. These POWER VOTE codes can be worth 5, 10, 15, 25, 50 or 100 votes! These will give us the boost we need. Please collect Power Votes and vote with them! You can use up to 10 Power Votes a day per email address!
Please help us win this grant…we need you and our troops need you to vote! They’re counting on us…and you!!!Question?????
Email me at ArmVymom@gmail.com
I will be happy to enter the codes for you ……
TYVM in Advance
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