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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:
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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Comment by M's mom on September 23, 2020 at 10:30pm
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Kim8,
Congrats to your son! Scroll down in this comment line to June 25, 2020 and read my response to penelopewms about OCS.
I hope you will be able to attend his commissioning ceremony. You will just about burst with pride! It meant so much more to me than my son's high school or college graduation. Take plenty of tissues. Anchors Aweigh!
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Comment by Anna on September 23, 2020 at 6:51pm
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Kim8,
Congratulations to your son!!! Get ready for the roller coaster ride of being a Navy Mom!!!!
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Comment by jsefamily on September 23, 2020 at 11:24am
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Congratulations and best wishes to the whole family!
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Comment by Helomom on September 23, 2020 at 11:05am
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Congratulations, Kim8! The adventure begins!
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Comment by penelopewms on September 23, 2020 at 11:00am
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Congratulations!
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Comment by Kim8 on September 23, 2020 at 6:42am
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Hi all! My son received his FINSEL yesterday! He's in the 05-21 class starting on Oct 18th! ROM starts Oct 4th in 11 days! So, it's really real now. Just had to share with those who understand what this means & know the range of emotions I'm feeling right now.
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Hi M's mom! Sent you a message. Nope, they aren’t in CONUS anymore.
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Thanks, Helomom.
Very important info. We must encourage our sailors to do their civic duty and vote, and they need to watch those deadlines.
Is your Captain still in San Diego?
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Make sure your sailors get to vote this year! FVAP.GOV released the timelines for mailing ballots back to the US. They will need to have their ballots very early. I have the information for Europe and I was surprised. Deployed FPO AE has to mail them back by 9 October. Landbased Europe APO AE has to mail theirs by 19 October. If your service member needs assistance direct them to the Federal Voter Assistance Program at FVAP.GOV.
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penelopewms:
Congratulations to your son! OCS is tough, but tell him he must not quit, no matter what. There are times in OCS where they all get discouraged, the drill instructor is punishing them unfairly, etc., but that is part of the process, to see who will stick it out and who will just quit.
Write him lots of encouraging letters with all the news from home. They are purposely kept isolated from the outside world, so a letter from home is a real treat. My son went through OCS several years ago, and at that time, they were not allowed email or phone calls for about 4 weeks, but I don't know how it is now.
The first month is the toughest, so tell him to hang in there. It does get better. He must keep his eyes on the prize no matter what!!!
What is your son's designator? (What job will he train for after OCS) Pilot? Nuclear engineer? My son is in intelligence.
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