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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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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.
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Comment by CeeCee on November 1, 2011 at 8:28pm
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there's a wolcott and a wolcottville, I live in the latter and wolcott is down by Indiana beach.............I'm about an hour and 15 minutes east of South Bend and 45 minutes north west of Fort Wayne
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Comment by ddemeuses on November 1, 2011 at 8:23pm
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Thanks cc. good ideas. He's assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt in Norfolk but that ship id in renovations until 2013. So he'll be going out on another one. Of course I can't mention which one or where from. I'm in Cedar Lake which is about 15 min from the Illinois border. Is Wolcottville down near Indiana Beach? I've seen the sign for Wolcott going there last summer.
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Comment by navymom9875 on November 1, 2011 at 8:00pm
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Ah, gotcha! I hadn't read down that far and thought the reference was just to the name of the ship.
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yes it is but dd mentioned the date it was leaving ................
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Isn't it ok to say the name of a ship as long as you don't talk about it's schedule or location?
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I didn't realize that there was a date associated with dd's post.....sorry.........I understand why I shouldn't have asked about the ship.....I apologize!!
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what ship is he going to be on? My son is on the Bush right now.......If you haven't already, join a group on here for his ship.........it definitely helps
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ddemeuses......my son is on a ship deployment right now..........not sure the $$ amount you want to spend but music, cdplayer, laptop, movies for laptop, ipod...........books if he's into reading.............anything that will help pass the time......cards, small hand held games........and then of course the usual care packages!!
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Hi everyone.....My son is going on his first deployment Dec 3-an 8 month world tour. Does anyone have any ideas on Christmas gifts for a young man on a ship for 8 months? I have no ideas. I periodically send him care packages, like snacks, personal hygiene items, etc. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Donna
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Comment by Kaye S. on October 17, 2011 at 12:00pm
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@ Jennie - Welcome! Be sure to join "Sub Moms," too. Even though it'll be a while before he gets to his boat (ships are 'ships,' subs are 'boats'), you'll be learning a ton while he's in school. Is he headed to BESS (sub school), in Groton, CT? Or Nuclear school in Goose Creek, SC?
@Brbr3 - If that little remark was Tourettes, then I must be completely whacko!!!
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