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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
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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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Group for moms who are in Maryland.
Members: 101
Latest Activity: Sep 8, 2021
Discussion Forum
Navy Mom From Harford County
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Southern MD
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Comment by Lindsaysproudmom(ship11Div345) on September 8, 2013 at 10:55pm
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lori- She is doing really well and we are just waiting for the "I'm a sailor" call to come in the next day or two! She didn't sound too nervous about BS, I think just little anxious about what to expect. I am expecting this week to fly by! Looks the weather is already turning up there, I looked at the forcast for Friday and it said 57!!
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Comment by lori on September 8, 2013 at 2:29pm
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Lindsay- how wonderful she got to call you! How is she doing? Is she nervous about BS? Well count down has finally begun for you! Are they still doing Meet and Greets the night before? This week will fly by for you. Check in with us just before you go if you can. And then when you get back so we can hear how it went.
Joanne- I don't think we've set a date or a place other than it will be towards the end of Oct sometime.
What language is Kev learning?
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lori- PIR is 9/13 and I am ready to jump out of my skin, I am just so excited to see my girl!! She did surprise us with a call tonight so that was awesome!! Her div won the Captain's Cup today so she was very excited about that. BS 21 is very soon so we should hear from her in the next few days!! Looking forward to meeting all of you MD moms! Has a date/place been decided?
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Welcome M Dunne. I am finally getting a chance to look at our group and see what's been happening. We have been getting a lot of new moms lately which is awesome!
Mickey- A surprise visit from your sailor! Wonderful! So when you got back home were you shocked to see him there? The next 15 days will be nice for both of you. Try not to spoil him to much!!! Did he pick Norfolk? I had hoped my son would get that but for selfish reasons of course! He is quite happy in SD.
Seems like us Maryland moms are spread all over MD. I was hoping to hear from guanggao as she lives the closest to me.
Lindsay's mom- so how many days now? Have you packed your suitcase yet?
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Comment by mickey71193 on September 6, 2013 at 8:11am
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My sailor is home!!!! So happy. He surprised us last night, and of course I wasn't home when he got here!!! So excited to have him here for the next 15 days. Then he is off to Norfolk. So glad he will be close to home.
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Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on August 29, 2013 at 12:54pm
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Welcome, M Dunne! It's so good to have you here. That is very cool that you live close to MD Mom. :) I'm Betsy and I live in Carroll County, MD. My sailor (youngest son of our 5 children) is on the carrier Stennis. His ship was recently put in dry dock, so he is now shore based for awhile in Bremerton, WA. They did just get back from an 8th month deployment in May, so those "see ya laters" are fresh in my mind. We all know how hard that is. ((Hugs)) to you!
Lindsay'smom, I still get goosebumps when I remember that day!. It will be the best experience of your life. I'm so excited for you.
guanggao, my future son in law was also an ET and is now considering going back in the Navy (he got out last summer) to train to teach ET's. Welcome to our group. We can't wait to get to know you. I actually did create a MD Maryland Mom's group on FB also, so our new members can join that as well. Please just send me a pm telling me a bit about you and your sailor, so that I can approve you.
Joanne, wow that is scary about the mudslide. I think I saw that on the news! It was pretty scary. I'm glad that you had a great visit with Kev. I am heading out to CO in Sept. to see my daughter and her former sailor (and now fiance, YAY! he pop the question and gave her a ring 2 weeks ago). It's a shame we couldn't have been there at the same time.
Here is the link for those that didn't get it. It may have gotten lost in the comments.
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Comment by MarylandMom on August 28, 2013 at 9:15pm
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Hi M Dunne, I live in Cumberland !! My son is on the USS WASP. He is stationed in Norfolk,Va . He had his PIR in Dec 2010.
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Comment by M Dunne Navy on August 28, 2013 at 7:17pm
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Hi, I have been following this group for a short time,I live in Frostburg, md and my son is deployed on the uss Nimitz. We lived in Frederick for 15 years before moving here 10 years ago. I would love to meet some other moms of sons and daughters in the Navy going through some of the same things. My son is suppose to come home in Oct. but who knows with what is going on. they have been deployed since March. We have not seen him since we flew to Seattle last Feb. to say our goodbyes. If you all come up with a date I would love to join you for lunch. Thanks
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Lindsay- not that you're counting down the days right! I remember the excitement of waiting to get on the plane to GL for PIR! I thought I'd be asked to stop bouncing up and down in my seat I was so excited! We weren't going to get the "I'm a sailor" call till AFTER we were already at the motel. Talk about on the edge of my seat! Battle stations for his div were happening the night before we left but it wouldn't be over till we were actually on our way there. I had that phone glued to my hand from the time we got off the plane. When I got the call I went out of the motel room [my husband was asleep as he had just come back from England the day before we left for GL] and just then a guy with a leaf blower started blowing the leaves! I kept running around the motel trying to hear my son AND have a signal! Ah the memories!
Will you be going to the meet and greet? I met some wonderful ladies I'm still friends with today from our time there.
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Thanks Linda! Looking forward to meeting you gals! Hopefully a date will go out soon!
So excited to see my SR in two weeks from this Friday!!
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