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Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!
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.
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Comment by Reid's Ma on July 31, 2012 at 5:27pm
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PIR is the first awesome event for your sailor! Hope you and your family get to go.
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Comment by queenanne on July 31, 2012 at 4:34pm
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Hi! I'm Anne. Just joined and have a son, Brett, at Great Lakes, rescue swimmer, Ship 04, Div 818. PIR 8/31/12. I live in Indy with my husband and our other son, a junior in HS. Excited to be able to chat and have contact with other moms! Miss my son, am excited for him, proud of him, and can't wait to see him at PIR!
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Comment by Debbie D on July 30, 2012 at 9:58pm
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Reid's Ma. and Cathie379 .. I also live in Anderson. My son has been in for about a year and a half. He is on the USS DeWert and is an OS... Time seems to fly by at times and then drag!!! I will be visiting him at some of his ports he will be coming to in the next month or so....can't wait to see him...it's been since March!!!! I miss him soooo much.
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Comment by cathie379 on July 30, 2012 at 7:31pm
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Kimberly214 My sailor lives in LaPorte Indiana, real close to porter.
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My son Graduates 8-7-2012 as a OS,then he get's to come home for 2 week's(can't wait), Then he is off to be on the Michael Murphy Destroyer!! What a Honor to be on that ship,I am so excited for him.
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Comment by Sunshine Sandy on July 30, 2012 at 10:32am
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Kathy I am in Indianapolis. My son is on DEP, he leaves February 28 I still have some time to spend with him before he leaves. I know the next few months will go fast.
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Kathy, sure hope you're planning to go to PIR. It IS a great moment! Congrats!
We're in Anderson, but have family right between Seymour and Brownstown.
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Comment by Jules ( Ship 3/Div. 277) on July 29, 2012 at 11:29pm
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Hi Kathy!!...I don't know if you consider Jeff close-by, but that's where I am!! :)
My daughter left on July 10th and her PIR is Aug. 31st. My daughter is a little older than yours...More than a little, her 10yr reunion was this summer!! :) I can't quite imagine having one leave so quickly after HS grad...But only a few more days til you see her again...I'm sure it'll be a proud moment. :)
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Hello to all Indiana Moms. My name is Kathy Bierman and my daughter is ALMOST to her PIR. August 10th...the best birthday EVER !!! for this Mom. We live in Seymour so if there are any other Moms from close by I would love to chat with you. There are 3 kids from my daughter's class that have joined and one still to process thru MEPS in Indy. She is the first to leave for BC. she left June 13th...just 10 days after graduation from h.s. Miss her lots but we are now even more excited to see her. Hope all is well and I would love to know if there are any other's whose son/daughter is at BC now. My daughter is Div 245, Ship 03 .
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Comment by johns_momma on July 29, 2012 at 5:27pm
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Hi everyone! Still new to this site and to Navy in general, so figured what better place to start than with moms close to home! My son is 18 and leaves in 3 days for bc, then 7 mos in FLA for a-school. Wow! What an unbelievable cluster of emotions! Although there's of course sadness that he's leaving, I'm so overwhelmed with pride that I'm about to burst! But, the closer it gets, the harder it gets. Just nice to know I'm not alone and there's a world of mom's out there with advice. And let's face it...we all know mom's know best =)
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