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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.
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:
**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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Soooo sorry to have missed your going away party, Navygal88....my whole family had the flu last week.....knocked us for a loop. Hubby was home all week, both kids and then wham I went down. Still fighting a lot of congestion. Didn't want to send you off with it....it would go like wildfire through the barracks....
All the very best to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you enjoy your time going through bootcamp...
MOM>>> make sure you keep us posted on her letters, etc. We'd love to hear how she is doing....and you make sure you keep in touch with us so we can chat with you too.....
Spring can't come soon enough! Had just about enough of this white stuff. What's halfway between Keene and Concord?
Navygal88, please have you Mom post your address!
My son has been able to post on Facebook a couple of times and he's gone from Greece to Spain and is LOVING it! He said he can't understand why he seems to be the only one excited to be on deployment! Guess the Navy really is in his blood!
Tiramisu, welcome to our group! Glad to hear you're in a warmer climate, as you can see, we're all getting a little sick of all the snow we've had! I'm from Hooksett, right next to Bow!
Navygal88 definately have your mom post your address for us. You'll be getting so much mail, you'll be able to share it LOL
Welcome Tiramisu, Arla and I are both from the Keene area.
And we should definately plan another get together but we don't have to do it right in Keene, how bout half way.......any ideas?
And are you all just a little tired of shovelling yet? LOL not me hubby does it all:)
Hi ladies! I haven't been on here for a while, been keeping busy. My son came home for 2 weeks (yeah), it was a total surprise! He called me around 9:00 one night and asked me if he could call back around midnight, he really needed to talk and couldn't do so at 9:00. Of course I waited up for his call but instead of calling he walked in! What a wonderful Christmas present! Does saying goodbye ever get any easier? He has graduated from A school and is going to be based out of Norfolk, VA! Only about a 12 hr. drive from home. He is being flown out to his ship tonight somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea (he told me I'm not suppose to say where!). He is so excited to be joining his ship at last! Unfortunately his ship will only be out to sea for another 21 days but at least he'll have a chance to get his sea legs!
My best to all of you, sounds like some of you are pretty busy with grandchildren. It's nice to read everyone's updates. Navygal88, Best Of Luck to you, you'll do just fine in boot camp. I won't be able to make your going away party but I'll be thinking of you. Maybe your Mom can post your address on this site and we can send you boot camp mail. My son said that's what got him through. I wrote to him every day, sometimes twice a day. He said when they finally released their mail he had 27 pieces waiting for him!
Has anyone talked about doing another lunch? I thought we said we'd do something closer to our Keene friends the next time so they won't have to drive so far. I'm up for suggestions as I don't know the area. Now that things have quited down here I'll be checking in more often.
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