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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:
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**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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Liberty during A School
Started by BlessedOne. Last reply by Carlouise Jan 7, 2016. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Confused about husbands boot camp pay - BAH, separation pay, base pay, etc.
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Comment by OCS WIFE on August 5, 2010 at 1:24pm
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Hi! My name is Andrea! Just joined this awesome site! My husband and I got married 2 days before he left for OCS! His class is OC class 20-10-B and he will be graduating early September! When I see him it will be like a second honeymoon! Does ANYONE have a son, husband, fiance ect... that is in 20-10-B also in Newport RI?
I REALLY, REALLY need someones help with something! Please let me know if you're out there!!!
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Comment by navywife1126 on August 4, 2010 at 1:15pm
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Hey ladies,
New to this group.
Surviving our first deployment...one day at a time...
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Comment by proudmom2be09 on August 3, 2010 at 3:15pm
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kimbob- I really enjoyed writing my husband letters every day while he was at boot. I felt like it compared to talking to him, just in a different way. I also made a scrapbook which I really had fun with! I put all the letters I got from him in there and anything he sent to me :). I made it from the beginning of our relationship to present time and LOVE looking at it and thinking of all our happy times! I also have little videos of us doing silly things on my cell phone and I play those daily when I need to hear his voice and smile. Listening to good music also helps, and of course this awesome website :).
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Hey girls, my fiance has been been gone for a month and I leave next week for boot camp so that means another 2 months that I cant see or talk to him. Just curious what do you girls do to keep going and keep positive?
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Alicia H when did your husband leave for bootcamp? It takes them time to get everything processes and setting up where the money is deposited is one of the last things they do in processing.
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Comment by navywifebeth on August 3, 2010 at 11:35am
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My husband also left June 22nd and we didn't get paid the 1st, but we did get our first check the 15th of July, then again this past weekend. We did have a bigger check the first time and a smaller one the second time. So the 3rd one will hopefully be bigger again! :) It's all a guessing game until A school... well really then I think it's all still a guessing game! :)
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Comment by randolphnavy(ship07 div270) on August 3, 2010 at 8:24am
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Military pay is the 1st and 15th.With Boobt Camp it depends...My son did not get a first check.But he has since gotten 2 deposits.Deposits vary so when u do get a deposit don't bank on that being the amount he is gonna get each time.The first deposit was like $1000 2nd one was $300.They take out for alot of things in the begining.Uniforms,the stuff they get at the store,things like that.When ur hubby graduates he will have access to his LES(leave and earning statement)and you will be able to see what he is making and what yall will recieve.Once they leave bootcamp and get into school it starts to balance out.It does go in automatically.We have Navy Federal and I can see what our deposit is a few days before it is deposited.My son went into Bootcamp Jun 22 and did not get a check until July 15th.
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Comment by AliciaH*Ship09Div306/PIR9-10-10* on August 3, 2010 at 4:52am
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Ok, so I was told that my husbands check would be automatically put into our checking account on the 1st of the month...And I still haven't recieved it. Anyone know about how long it actually takes?? Any advice would be most appreciated!
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hey ladies, are any of you familiar with Horizon Village apartments in Zion, IL? Checking into apartments in the area without actually seeing them is kinda tough so any recommendations will be appreciated!
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Comment by Diannadb on August 3, 2010 at 2:06am
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I'm still waiting on a check from the Navy for the stuff they broke in our move from Japan to San Diego.
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