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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

...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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed.  Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).  

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED.  Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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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For all the Moms(and Dads) with a Sailor in Japan

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Comment by Anti M on December 22, 2011 at 1:33pm

The adventures of Louise made me smile!

Comment by T-Lynn on December 22, 2011 at 12:58pm

Good Morning

Whos' got snow?

Not here - none just cold and damp out.

You know we all once stated: "What would our sailors think if they read this site?  They think we only talk about them."  My son - I think would just shake his head.

The only reason I remember what each of you say - I take notes.

Have to ay - I have been laughing out loud. Oh geez the visions of all the humping and I will never see "tinsel" the same again.  

So sailors are a hunting. What has they bagged? Is that the correct term?  My friend shared that her hubby got a goose.

About crying - anything that your sailor has done - eaten - listen too - and smells - can set you on a crying jag.  If you knwo you are going to be in the public eye - wear something that says Navy Mom.  When others look at you then - they just go - " Oh Navy Mom moment.", and not think your nuts.

I agree - get out t here and live.  I am trying too.

Wish I had some gossip.  I am in one of those dull moments

I need to get - mom has an bank appointment.  Wish all  a good day

hugs

Comment by BADma on December 22, 2011 at 12:54pm

Blondie... those are hysterical!

I know what ya mean about not being able to get it all done. My mind gets manic with ALL the things that NEED to be done BUT my body rebels and says "HELL no". There are times that I wish Ty Pennington and his EMHE staff would surprise me with a TOTALLY accessible house...but I'm not holding my breath!

Comment by jeffiner-desert-wind on December 22, 2011 at 12:17pm
BADma, my dad always told that joke.lol. and my kitties like decorating the cat box with ribbon. Do they think its grass?
Ang, Josie desnt follow me around like that but my sailors dog did...until he got run over. I lved that dog so much and miss him following me around like I was his object of worship. He would run beside me while loping on my horses in the arena to the pont if dragging his back legs. I hated leaving him home when I rode, but had to.
Sometimes I wish I had my kids ten years earlier so the hormones wouldn't nterfere with the empty nest thing. Hubby just laughs at me. I am, however glad I waited so that I could play like ski, mountain bike, run rivers. We took the biys wth us nonetheless but we knew what we were doing and were able to teach them and later be able to keep up with them. 50 isny so old and I look forward to doing as much as I can until my body won't let me. I heard a 90 year old man say "If I knew that I was going to be this old, I would have taken better care of myself. " so I am doing the best I can with diet and excersise cuz I want to ski wth my grandchildren. Nt much snow here in Idaho ths winter for skiing this year...yet.
Menopause is something we can all laugh at ourselves about. My friend in bible study put ice in zip loc bags and out them in her armpits durng bble study. She is such an hailaious lady! Soo that's why y'all gotta see Menapausal Musical if it comes your way.
Comment by BADma on December 22, 2011 at 11:30am

 I have a Christmas funny. It actually happened when I was a li'l kid.

  we were having breakfast on Christmas morning and the cat meandered into the kitchen. He had a piece  of tinsel hanging outta his bum!! THREE brothers AND my DAD all refused to touch it. My ma pulled out the tinsel. Thank GOD she was finished with the cooking ;D If ya want something done right, have  a woman do it!!

 

Comment by BADma on December 22, 2011 at 11:20am

Ang....do ya know how to make a hormone??

 

Don't pay her.... Ba  dum bum...Thank you, Thank you.I am here till Friday.Enjoy the chicken parmigiana ;0

Comment by Anti M on December 22, 2011 at 10:04am

Robin, I so agree about getting out there and doing what you can while you can.  I am already missing out on things I want to do because of my health.  I am so fortunate that I had so many opportunities when I was younger, and yes, almost every one courtesy of the Navy!  

Heck, making toast this morning was torture.  I mean, toast? Who can't make toast?!  

I have a friend who met her true love late in life. Neither of them were traditionally good looking, nor did they lead traditional lives.  They were married a scant two years when he was killed by a drunk driver while helping a stranded motorist.  She mourned, then took her savings and went on a European tour to glass factories and museums and to visit English relatives.  Then she was hit by a train in Austria!  It severed both her legs, but somehow they saved her.  So now she is in a chair, yet she still goes to work, gets out to visit friends, and goes to Burning Man, which believe me, isn't easy for the able-bodied.  She just can't see letting grief and her physical limits keeping her housebound and not doing what she loves.  So when I am having a bad morning, I think of her and how she gets through her days, and I push myself just that little bit more.  

Say YES!  to living your life.

Comment by jeffiner-desert-wind on December 22, 2011 at 12:23am
Oh and to add. Today the classroom teacher gave gifts to her third graders...she found a bunch of beanie babies at yard sales. My son collected them so had to hold back tears in that classroom. Sigh.
Comment by jeffiner-desert-wind on December 22, 2011 at 12:21am
Navyblumom, I agree. Our parents have health issues and or pass on too. Gotta be tough...pant pant...sniff sniff. You aren't the only ine that feels like that when your sailor calls. I stull get weepy at times after we hang up even though it still makes my day, like T-Lynn just said.
Comment by jeffiner-desert-wind on December 21, 2011 at 10:20pm
Well about monopause and hormones.....first for me. Have had it pretty good. Thought I was done. About a year and a half ago I went two month wthout a period and wham! I bled a lot! My principal saved me with three pads and two tampons and said that I will need them and told me that she lost her girly figure. So I cycled every two months for six months and then went back to regular monthly ones. After PIR in June nothing until that horse bucked me off. Back to two months. Sailor comes home and now every month heavy for three days. Last break I had was just two and a half weeks. My female dog humps me and acts like she is giong into heat when I have my period but she really won't go into heat until April. She s trying to hump the cats too. I'm 51. Mags. My fdil had hormone troubles that the drs thought that they could solve with birth control pills. That messed her up more. I found out about a pharmasist that gives a kit for a spit test that you send off for 94 bucks and sends a lab report. The pharmasist then recommends a naturalpathic way to get the levels where they need to be including diet. Maybe you could do some research in your community and find something like it. Christmas has had me weepy ....and hormones. Anything that reminds me of my sailor brings me to tears. Any sad animal story ALWAYS makes me bawl. That is just me. Sometimes when a clients background hits me more like a reality I cry. Just last nght I was recalling my dads account of when he was wounded in Holland Dec 31, 1944 had me sobbing.
There is my Josie trying to turn me on lol humping my leg. Geez.
 

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