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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
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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.
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RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
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Norfolk Sailors - Family & Friends
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For families and friends of Sailors who are stationed at Norfolk; for either Sea Duty or Shore Duty Sailors. Just make sure to keep OPSEC issues in mind and not disclose ship movements in advance.
Members: 1316
Latest Activity: Jan 13
RED CROSS CONTACT INFO:
In the event of an emergency within the sailor’s family, where you feel the sailor must be notified and considered for Emergency Leave, you must notify the American Red Cross through the national headquarters in Washington, DC (1-877-272-7337) or via their website www.redcross.org.
Discussion Forum
Norfolk Navy Lodge info, base tours, plus what to see and do in the area
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"Navy Lodge Norfolk" - Information, rates and photos
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Barracks?
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Comment by Micki1465 on February 9, 2012 at 12:32pm
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Can anyone tell me the best place to get ongoing information about the HSC22 det on the Iwo Jima?
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Comment by Grasshopper on February 9, 2012 at 11:53am
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Jess...He will be still be on shore duty in Naples.
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Comment by Jess_0411 on February 9, 2012 at 9:51am
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Grasshopper: If he isn't on a ship, I don't believe they have an FRG. I'm currently on the Executive Board of the FRG for my husband's ship, and he keeps asking me what I'm going to do in 2013 when he goes to shore duty and I can't be apart of a FRG anymore. When he goes to Naples, will he be on a ship or shore duty?
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Theresa...My son is an MA and stationed on base not on a ship. Do you know if they have an FRG for those Sailors not stationed on a ship. He will be leaving for Naples, Italy in a couple of months and I would love to be able to be a part of something like that in Naples. Where would he need to list me for this?
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Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on February 9, 2012 at 12:11am
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Who knows what the future holds for our Sailors. A lot of the talk of downsizing our Navy is upsetting to us all. However, remember that the needs of the Navy change from year to year. Maybe next year things will be better.
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My mother died on January 25th. My mom was a very important part of my life and my children's. The Navy allowed my son to come home for her funeral. Of course we had to go through the proper channels. ie notify the American Red Cross.
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pschip, I am so sorry about your son. I will certainly keep him in my prayers.
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Comment by pschip on February 8, 2012 at 11:53pm
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Kept my son in your prayers he was working today and a cable snapped and he was cut pretty bad it took 47 stitches It hard being here and him there
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As a mother you are eligible to sign up to receive e-mails from the FRG and Ombudsman that contain information on not on the ERB, but different going-ons with the ship and what not. All you have to do is e-mail the FRG and they verify your information with your sailor. This information is not only valuable to Mom's, but to all family members.
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Actually, the Navy counts as family whoever is on the sailor's page 2. The page 2 is not just exclusive to wives and children. The sailor can add parents, legal guardians, brothers, sisters, whoever is in his immediate family. These are also the only people that they (technically) allow you to take emergency leave for. Like when my mother-in-law had a stroke, since she is on my husband's page 2, he was allowed to take leave to see her. If you are not on your sailor's page 2 and therefore not classified as "family" by the Navy, that's an issue you need to take up with your sailor. As for the person who said that at boot camp, they were not only wrong but rude.
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