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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 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:
**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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This is for people who would like to meet other (politically and religiously) liberal people who have a loved one in the military.
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We are also known as the Warm & Fuzzie Obama Mamas - and are proud to support our president! Agnostic - Humanist - Atheist - Jewish - Buddhist - Democratic - Independent - Christian - Deist - searching .....all peaceful peeps are welcome!
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Comment by Anti M on November 24, 2009 at 8:53am
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Congrats to Rose and welcome Lydia.
Hey, there was an article about Burning Man in Arab News! Personally, that gives me renewed hope for the world.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=9§ion=0&article=127355&am...
Art is democratic here. This entire enterprise serves as a gargantuan art gallery. The art is interactive — you can touch it; you can climb it; you can shelter in it. The institutionalized world and all its preconceived notions about art are challenged here.
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Comment by TexasDocMom on November 23, 2009 at 8:54pm
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personally, I always liked my Wild Turkey with coke....vodka gets the orange juice....
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I've heard of it , Inga, but never tried it. Supposed to make it juicy, but so many commercial birds are already injected with saline and broth/oil that only fresh or natural birds should be brined.
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FB is working for me ....
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Inga, obviously you were not having near enough fun in the 60's if you remember them "well"...ha!
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I have a stocking mom crocheted for me sometime in the 80s, and a red flannel one she made for me when I was so small I can't remember a Christmas without it.
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I have a couple old holiday pics around, many of them got taken away by other family members. Somewhere I have one of me dressed as an angel. I will have to scan them in.
Inga, my Aunt Kay did the thing with the tree on Christmas eve, I stayed there one year and was very disappointed that I couldn't help decorate it... I was 16 and thought it was very strange. My cousins made a game of finding their presents before Christmas morning. I snuck into my cousin's room and packed a big box of her things and wrapped them up. Wow, was she ticked! Aunt Kay thought it was hilarious.
One year in Japan we picked up a real tree on base. To get it home, Larry stuck the trunk into the saddlebag on the Harley, I was on the back and wrapped my arm around the tree to hold it upright. Sure do wish we had a picture of that!
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I must agree with TDM, Inga, don't go there. I used to take a glimpse nowand then, but I feel far better now that I choose not to do so.
I've always had in interest in what is and is not considered "protected speech" under the First Amendment. Did studies and papers on it long ago, but have tried to keep up with the topic over the years, especially as the internet has made it easy to speak anonymously. Threats are not protected speech... but the trick is to distinguish between a "true threat" and political hyperbole. I found an article which does a nice summation of the key points, but I will only put the intro here:
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/speech/personal/topic.aspx?topi...
The First Amendment protects a wide swath of expression that many of us may find offensive, distasteful or even repugnant. The government cannot silence and punish speakers just because it dislikes their expression. Oftentimes, the First Amendment protects the flag-burner, the tobacco advertiser, the pornographer and the hateful speaker.
However, First Amendment jurisprudence has never provided absolute protection to all forms of speech. There are several unprotected categories of expression, including but not limited to fighting words, obscenity, extortion, perjury and false advertising. Another unprotected category is the true threat. The First Amendment does not give a person the right to walk up to someone else and say “I am going to kill you” or to announce in an airport, “I am going to bomb this plane.”
Yet the line between protected expression and an unprotected true threat is often hazy and uncertain. What if a speaker makes a seemingly threatening statement about a political figure through the use of hyperbole? What if a student says that if he receives a poor grade, he may “go Columbine”? What if an abortion protester talks about participating in a “war against abortionists”?
Interesting reading. However, what is not mentioned is the investigation of threats. Very difficult to find up to date comprehensive data on that subject.
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Kelly, some rates have jobs which require the sailors to wear their dress uniforms...depends on what he is doing daily. Don't confuse "working uniform" with "work", LOL.
The hat thing becomes automatic after a little while. I still reach for my hat when I enter a building.
The one thing about dungarees... comfortable. The biggest problem is we wore them to pieces. Didn't PT in them, we had issued shorts and t shirts for that.
I was glad when the salt and peppers went away, white shirt, black pants, tie. Very blah.
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Ah, the garrison cap. Yes, easier to keep clean and tuck in your belt when you don't have it on, but the nicknames for it. My, my, my. The dixie cup is a pain, but that's pure Navy.
The Pbs are simpler to keep clean than working whites (white pants, white shirt), but khaki is so traditionally chiefs and officers that they look funny to old vets .... just the newness, I guess. I do miss the Johnny Cash...black shirt, black pants, black tie. And dungarees? Now THAT said hard working sailor to me.
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