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Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!
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 mdamon70/SHIP11Div.134 on March 4, 2012 at 10:16pm
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Any mom's from Palm Beach County?
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Comment by PopwouldbeProud Ship11 Div65 on January 31, 2012 at 9:13pm
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Mine's in 65. We lived in Minnesota for a while. Glad I still have my good coat!
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Comment by Paula on January 31, 2012 at 8:57pm
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He's in the 806. I am ok with the cold- a "damned Yankee" transplant. I still have an alternate wardrobe after being in FL for 23+ years.
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Comment by d o on January 31, 2012 at 8:46pm
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Congratulations ladies, you'll never forget it!
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Hi from Coral Springs! My son's PIR is the 10th, too! Bundle up! Paula, what division is he in?
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Hi Ladies! My son's PIR is the 10th. I'm getting very excited to see him.
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Comment by normita on January 23, 2012 at 10:27pm
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vivo en tampa y mi hijo se fue el 10 de enero
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Comment by Aaron's mom on January 6, 2012 at 7:03am
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When my son graduated in October, we stayed at the Courtyard by Marriott in Waukegan. Very reasonable, clean, shuttle service to PIR for $3 per person each way, and they have an indoor pool and hot tub area. My son wanted deep dish pizza and to go to the mall. We did both of those things. We did not have time to go into Chicago with him, since he only had a few hours liberty. It was nice to be able to just visit. He thought it felt strange being out in the "world" and relaxing at the hotel was fine.
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The restaurant is called Wild Berries. (Since it's too cold....is what I meant to write)
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Holly, Great Lakes was a nicer place than I thought a Navy town would be. We got a hotel in Waukegan that turned out to be a country club (loved it, sorry I can't remember the name). When I drove past the hotels in Great Lakes that I had looked at online I realized I could have stayed at any of them and it would have been fine. I highly recommend the hop on hop off tour(double decker bus) sense it's too cold for the architecture tour, they give it on the bus. I also saw things in the aquarium that I haven't ever seen before, and I'm a diver. I liked it so much I took my 88 yr old mom on my second visit. Sears tower view and glass box was amazing, and there is indoor areas of the Navy Pier including a stained glass museum (free) that we still talk about. Also had a great meal in china town. I'll have to look up the name of the restaurant we loved not far from the base.
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