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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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
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- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
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Navy.com Para Familias
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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Seems as if a lot of moms are nurses.. Just checking to see where you live and what kind of professional setting you work in.
Members: 184
Latest Activity: Aug 15, 2023
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Comment by sondra on August 16, 2010 at 7:11pm
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So true Becky! While you appreciate what we do Rose I know I appreciate what you do to. The ER is just not my thing!!!!! lol
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Hi Becky! Yes I do love psych! I worked on a geri psych unit for almost 4 years before moving to school aged children!
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Hello everyone! My son has been at bc for a week now and I recieved my letter today. I was so excited! I am an RN working as a case manager for a behavioral clinic. I am hoping to go back to school starting in Jan for my NP in Mental Health. Need something to keep me busy! lol
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Comment by Jan (Ship 04 Div 802) on August 10, 2010 at 9:41pm
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Hello Everyone. I'm a newbie. My son Ryan is leaving for boot camp in November. I'm just checking out all the groups and finding my way around on here.
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Comment by NBPinPR (Ship13, Div 321) on August 9, 2010 at 2:38pm
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Hello, I am Brian's Mom! He arrived at GL 8/3 and will be going to be a corpsman. I have been a nurse for 30 years and just retired as a Director of Surgical Services. My husband is stationed here in Puerto Rico so I am Volunteering as a RN in the Clinic here helping with HEDIS and helping them prepare for Joint Commission.
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Comment by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on July 5, 2010 at 9:59am
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To all Navy Nurse Moms: MAS has jumped to #27 (see comment below). Please take the time to vote. Just think how many boxes will be shipped to our sailors with $50K ...!!! Do you know the sorts of "causes" ahead of us? A thriller movie festival, for one! Can't remember the others now, but this is the only project for our troops. So please vote and get your family & friends involved too. And, no, I have no shame in asking for anything for our military (items on wish lists or votes). It isn't hard - we just need to take a minute or 2 and do it. (Now I sound like Nike.) I just finished voting and so did my husband and son. Thanks for helping. This is such an easy way to help our "children" in the Navy.
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Just wanted to ask all you navy nurse moms if you would take a minute and go to the Pepsi Refresh Everything site and vote for Molly's Adopt a Sailor (MAS). Even if you haven't joined this group, MAS could use the help. They are in the running for a donation of $50,000 which will ship a LOT of packages to our sailors. Currently they are 31st on the list, but they have to get into the top 10. You are allowed to vote once a day everyday. Will you please try to help and forward the link to everyone you know? Let's try to get MAS that $50K. Here's the website (hope it comes through as a link): http://www.refresheverything.com/mollysadoptasailor
Thanks everybody!!
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I'm back from Boston & my parents' home, finally. It is 6:10p EST. The news isn't good. The tumor has grown substantially larger and that is with the gensyme (sp?) which is the first line of chemo for pancreatic ca. They can give him 2nd line chemo but it has such a poor track record it would have to be combined with a second chemo agent & the side effects are horrific. Radiation is out. The docs told us that this 2nd line would add only weeks or a couple short months to his life and make him very ill. He has decided to stop all treatments effective today. Right now he isn't showing a lot of symptoms which is good. They will treat the symptoms as they arise. They are going to set him up for the Bridge to Hospice so everything will be in place when it is needed. I talked to the doc privately and asked her to please put things in place so I can be his daughter - not his nurse - which she agreed to do. They will only rely on me for a nursing assessment in an emergency which is fine by me. I'm sad and a little angry, but mostly just numb & sort of a deflated balloon. Do you think that is normal? The docs give him 6-12 mos., but I know they really have no idea. No one does. "A man's days are ordered by the Lord God" so I'm not thinking in that timeline, because I believe only God knows. My Mom took it fairly well. We are hoping to get her feeling better and stronger so that they can take off and do things and enjoy however many days they have left together. They would dearly love to go to NY to see Matthew and Amanda, so we will likely work on that first. It isn't too long a drive - 3 to 3 and 1/2 hours with stops which will be needed for Dad. I really can't think anymore, my brain is as numb as my body. Thank you for your prayers and encouragement, I'd never have gotten thru this day without you all.
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Well, I'm off to Beth Israel Medical Center (in Boston). We are all a bit nervous. I think anticipation is the worst thing for patients and their families to go thru. Being on the nurse side was a little easier, but now I've experienced both. Only calm person is my Dad!! I'll talk to you all this afternoon when I get back. It'll likely be 3:30p EST or later because of the traffic. Gotta run. Thank you for your prayers, I'll carry them in my heart as we go. Love you all.
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Almost forgot - I'll let you all know what happens tomorrow. Good and/or bad. Talk to you all later.
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