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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:

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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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Liberal and with an Open Mind

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Liberal and with an Open Mind

This is for people who would like to meet other (politically and religiously) liberal people who have a loved one in the military.

Members: 23
Latest Activity: Aug 16, 2023

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!

When you have achieved an open mind you can then open your heart to humanity. Commit charitable acts, volunteer, help those who cannot help themselves. Look around you and see the world as it is and do your part to make it better. Establish the values of great people who have wandered down this very same road before you. Begin where they left off, build a better world for those to follow you or teach them how to journey down their own path.

An open mind equals an open heart which ultimately leads to world peace.

Kephen Merancis

If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." ~ John F. Kennedy

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Comment by Anti M on November 20, 2009 at 7:26pm
LOL, I have a friend who worked on the Best Buy Geek Squad. I'm all set!
Comment by Anti M on November 20, 2009 at 12:14pm
That is a great pic! I'm still trying to get used to that new uniform. Looks like a Marine to me... (insert curmudgeonly mumble and grumble here, LOL).
Comment by TexasDocMom on November 20, 2009 at 11:56am
It's the Republican way, Inga...nothing has changed...why tell the truth when lying is just so much easier? or the old "if we say it enough it makes it true" crap that Cheney is so fond of doing...liars are liars. Nothing has changed with the koolaid drinkers, don't bother them with facts. It's like that pig...
Comment by Anti M on November 19, 2009 at 11:12am
>>>>>>Uli, Sarah signing in the "Mystery" section of the book store. That's rich. I would think "Fiction" was more fitting. LOL
>>>>

I was thinking "Horror and Fantasy".
Comment by Anti M on November 18, 2009 at 3:35pm
Inga, food can affect inflammation a great deal. Finding out which foods takes patience and monitoring what you eat and when. You can try a food diary ... for me, the reaction is six to ten hours later. I've never had the "official" elimination diet, but I've done it casually, and enough to know my triggers are nightshades and dairy. I also get sick as a dog if I consume sodium benzoate, a preservative in many diet sodas, but that's a different reaction. THAT crap gives me flu symptoms, body aches and sinus congestion!
Comment by Anti M on November 18, 2009 at 3:15pm
Lebkuchen... now to me, that's difficult. But then, I wasn't raised with it.

My soups don't use a thickener, I cook them, cool them, then puree and strain them and reheat. Labor intensive, but a good way to get me to eat my veggies.

I actually don't eat much cheesecake anymore, because soft cheeses, sour cream, yogurt and milk in any quantity greater than a couple mouthfuls makes my arthritis act up. This makes me very sad, even more than not being able to eat tomatoes and potatoes.
Comment by TexasDocMom on November 18, 2009 at 1:33pm
My grandkids's dad owns cheesecake shops...good thing...I put a piece of cheesecake on the table at a Starbucks once for the two of them to "share" when they were 2 and 4...turned my head, and the 2 year old grandson was literally shoveling it in his mouth and the 4 year old granddaughter was outraged!

I've always believed in homemade cheesecake for breakfast if it's in the house, it's pure protein, really...tell yourself that, it works!
Comment by Anti M on November 18, 2009 at 1:09pm
I make cheesecake from scratch, and Yule log cakes (hard work that!), and fudge, even chocolate truffles made with heavy cream. My cookies are industrial strength, so they hold up on the semi for hubby. I do like to bake, but my pies always boil over.

Mmmmmm......

And soup, I make killer thick soups, no cream or milk. Curried Coconut-Pumpkin and a Carrot Dill are my specialties.
Comment by TexasDocMom on November 18, 2009 at 11:33am
from a friend on fb...

If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, send it back..... It's under cooked.....
Comment by Anti M on November 17, 2009 at 1:59pm
The new mammogram guidelines would have KILLED me. I could never have discovered my tumor through self-exams, it was small and deep, and not in a "normal" place. I was 47. Three more years and I've had had a funeral instead of a lumpectomy. No history of BC at all in our family, cancer yes, lots, but not BC specifically. I have friends who had BC at even a younger age. Mammograms save lives, a false positive isn't fun or cheap, but is better than dying!
 

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