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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 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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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A group for moms, family members, spouses or significant others of Naval Flight Officers. A place to share stories, information, and to support each other.
Members: 43
Latest Activity: Dec 13, 2021
My son graduated in 2004, was winged in 2006, has been on one deployment, and was recently selected for Test Pilot School- yes they take NFO's! It's been an exciting and sometimes emotional few years.
Please tell us a little about yourself and your NFO. If you have questions about training, deployment, or anything else, please ask. There will be several members with experience to help out the newbies.
Discussion Forum
Travel on USS Theodore Roosevelt - Parent of Officer
Started by ProudStepMom. Last reply by ProudStepMom Feb 14, 2018. 4 Replies 0 Likes
My son said there was a possibility that a family member could travel on the aircraft carrier from Hawaii to California (at the end of deployment). He didn't know if this opportunity was limited to…Continue
Merry Christmas, all!
Started by PattyM Dec 25, 2010. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Hope you all are having a wonderful holiday! Tracy DID get to come home for Christmas weekend :-) I LOOOOOVE having her on the West Coast for the first time in 4 years :-) Love to all....
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Comment by lou2949 on April 12, 2010 at 10:06pm
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Sorry, Betty...I meant you must be about a month " ahead" of us......my mistake.....
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Welcome, Betty...hopefully the NFO's are a bit more secure in their chosen path..time will tell I guess.....what is your son hearing about when he might class up??? You must be about a month behind us....my son graduated from OCS on March 26th so we're very new at this...in fact, my son just arrived in Pensacola tonight.....very happy and excited for him though.....can't wait to visit him there.
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Comment by Betty Midwest Mom on April 12, 2010 at 9:51pm
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Thanks for starting this group. I, too, am a green mom. My son graduated OCS in late February, and is now in P'Cola for the long wait. I'm trying to learn all the lingo and figure out what everything means. It's nice to hear other moms with kids at the same stage. All the rumors about cutting pilots make me nervous - do the NFO's have a little less competition than the pilots? Wouldn't that be nice? In the meantime, I know my son is enjoying his new adventure. He found a furnished apartment, so has left all is college furniture in our basement!! I may have a garage sale soon...
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Comment by snowmc on April 12, 2010 at 8:22pm
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James is moving iin with a table and chairs, plus a small couch from his college days. He is planning to buy some new stuff once they get settled. I keep suggesting a pull-out couch for the office...hehe! He is really looking forward to a nice place and enough income to live comfortably. Saw some pictures of houses just down the street from them....looks great!
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lou2949...I know the emotions you are going through today. My son left last Thursday. Hang in there...message me if you need support!
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Wow, Alice....you've been at this for a while.....I'm sure you can give us newbies some great advice and info along the way. My son just left this morning for Pensacola to begin API, whenever that will be....will be a long wait from what we're hearing. Sorry your son is so far away but is wonderful he's so happy as an NFO.....sounds like a plum job, one that my son is very excited about.....
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Comment by Growlermom711 on April 12, 2010 at 9:08am
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Hi everyone, it is wonderful to have a forum for NFO's. My son was winged in 2002, and has been heavily involved in the Growler. He is currently back at Whibey Island after a tour in China Lake and a deployment. He is really enjoying this new plane, but also misses the Prowler a bit too I think. It is hard for us because he is so far away-we live on Long Island and don't get to see him much.
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Thanks for starting this group Donna. It's so nice to have a place for us to all talk and share what is happening with our kids and loved ones.
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My son will be arriving in P-cola tomorrow after a five day drive from Idaho. He will be sharing a house with Prof M's son..what does that make us..co-house moms? I know he is ready to get settled and find out what is in store for him next.
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Comment by PattyM on April 11, 2010 at 7:00pm
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Just wanted to say hi! Donna, my daughter, Tracy, is following a similar path as your son. She was a prior nuke enlisted, but had already finished a BS before she went in. She applied to OCS during nuke school, was accepted, but finished prototype first...went to OCS in Newport and finished last year in February. She immediately went to Pensacola for IFS and API, and is in JAX now, and will start her next training for EP-3's tomorrow. She'll be stationed at Whidbey Island for a couple of years after this. What an amazing journey! I can't wait for her winging in September :-)
Patty
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