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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 Ahnnae on July 30, 2013 at 6:42am
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5kNavy my daughter also has PIR Friday and is MA so our daughters will be together.
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Comment by Nancyship04div283 on July 29, 2013 at 6:16pm
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Hi 5KNavy - my son graduates on Friday too. They will be in A school together. Looking forward to PIR and so proud of my Sailor!
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Sandra - I will pass on the advice to my son. He is looking forward to San Antonio. I plan on visiting while he is there. Thank you for the information.
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My son loved San Antonio...not so much the pepper spray, but the pride in his voice for going through it and the pictures of it were great. He has so many good memories. There are lots of tests, so tell your son to study and he'll do great. After a couple weeks got the list of items to send him since he was now able to go off base. Hope your son has a great experience as well.
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Hi Sandra, Thank you for sharing. It's good to hear he is still excited about becoming a MA. My son is graduating from boot camp next week and then heading to San Antonio for MA school.
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My son just got assigned to his first duty station. He's currently in class and will officially start working in August. He's incredibly excited and still feels becoming an MA in the Navy was the best decision he's ever made.
I like it because I've got to visit Chicago and Texas and plan to visit at his new base sometime next year. The friendships that he has already with other MAs is incredible and the stories are hilarious. He's had frustrations, but the good experiences more than make up for it. Love my MA!
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Comment by herbgarden(Ship12Div085) on July 9, 2013 at 9:31am
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Also talk to lemonelephant, on the San Antonio MA's group. lemonelephant is from an MAA family & is extremely knowledgeable.
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Caroline, if you haven't already, check out the groups MAA Moms, and San Antonio MA's
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Hi Caroline! My daughter is an MA at her first duty station. She is not a gate guard, she drives around in a car with her partner. I too have family members who are/were police officers. One was an MP in the USAF and is now a civilian police officer, but also could have worked for homeland security, or border patrol. Once your sailor gets through boot camp, he will go to A school. They get real police training there.
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Comment by Caroline on July 2, 2013 at 3:54pm
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Hi I am Caroline. My son Tyler just joined the DEP on 7/1/13 and selected MAA as his career choice. He is scheduled to ship out July 2014 after high school graduation. We are a police family and he is very interested in law enforcement. I just hope this career is more than just a gate guard.
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