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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.
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Events
**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).
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**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.
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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.
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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 Melissa (Tucson) on April 16, 2009 at 3:41pm
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Roosevelt Strike Group
heading home
Updated: Wednesday, 15 Apr 2009, 8:51 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 15 Apr 2009, 8:51 AM EDT
NORFOLK, Va. - Six thousand sailors are heading back to Hampton Roads this weekend after a seven-month deployment.
The Navy said Tuesday the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group is returning to Norfolk after supporting maritime security in the Navy’s 5th, 6th and 7th Fleet areas of operation.
Due to arrive Friday are the guided missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) and the guided missile destroyers USS Mason (DDG 87) and USS Nitze (DDG 94).
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) is scheduled to arrive on Saturday.
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Bernadette: is your daughter staying at TPU (Transient Personnel Unit)?? what is her job and did she get stationed on a ship? I can't believe they told her to find a place off base and she's an E-2. Wow.
My nephew is stationed in San Diego and when he returned from the Gulf last October the same thing happened to him that happened to my son. He had submitted all the paperwork for barrarks and then after his ship came in, they didn't have any paperwork on him so he ended up living on his ship for quite a while and he is an E-5! It took a couple of months and he's finally in the barracks but he's very unhappy with the Navy because of that situation.
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He'll get it worked out once he gets some sleep and has time to ask around the ship for help. thanks again!
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I'll pass our info on to him and he can check with his command tomorrow. Thanks for your input! He's hanging out over at the rec center right now, free wifi and TV, etc. He said he was going to go back to ship after eating and hit the rack since he's so tired. :)
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Matt just came back from a 5 month deployment April 1st and then came home for leave. He flew back to Norfolk late yesterday. The supply chief that supposedly send his barracks request packet just went on 2nd leave, so he won't see him for 2 weeks. He doesn't know yet if someone else can help him on the ship. I told him I'll call his CO if he doesn't start asking some questions about how to get into the barracks. So he went to the barracks and they told him he has to get on the waiting list. He's an E-4. Can he live off base or is he stuck on the ship?
I did drive his car to Norfolk before homecoming so he at least has a car. But he doesn't know he way around yet. He called me when he flew in to Norfolk last night and I gave him the directions to his ship. He can tough it out on the ship for awhile till he figures out what's going on. I know he's tired, he didn't get to his ship till about 1:30am this morning and then had to work today. Well, he calls it work, you and I would call it something else....lol
Let's give Matt a few days and see what happens....I'll let him know about your son. You may be Matt's lifesaver....lol
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I know a lot about ships. I love them.
Yes, he needs a place to crash and he can pay. He's thinking of staying at the Navy Lodge!
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Naval Station Norfolk occupies about 4,300 acres of Hampton Roads real estate in a peninsula known as Sewells Point. It is the world's largest Naval Station; in fact, based on supported military population, it is the largest naval installation in the world. When the 75 ships and 134 aircraft homeported here are not at sea, they are along side one of the 13 piers or inside one of the 11 aircraft hangars for repair, refit, training and to provide the ship's or squadron's crew an opportunity to be with their families. Naval Station is homeport to aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, large amphibious ships, submarines, a variety of supply and logistics ships, C-2, C-9, C-12 and E-2 fixed wing aircraft,
and H-3,H-46, H-53, and H-60 helicopters.
Port Services controls more than 3,100 ships' movements annually as they arrive and depart their berths. Port facilities extend more than four miles along the waterfront and include some seven miles of pier and wharf space.
Air Operations conducts over 100,000 flight operations each year, an average of 275 flights per day or one every six minutes. Over 150,000 passengers and 264,000 tons of mail and cargo depart annually on Air Mobility Command (AMC) aircraft and other chartered flights from our airfield. It is the hub for Navy logistics going to the European and Central Command theaters of operations, and to the Caribbean.
Naval Station's Nimitz Hall is a major stopping-off point for people destined for ships, aircraft squadrons, and stations overseas. Nearly 9,000 people are processed through the Transient Personnel Unit annually en route to their destinations.
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You better love me, we may we spending A LOT of time together. Now I need some help......Sailor son just came back from deployment and tried to check into the barracks. He was told they have no paperwork in his name. He met with some supply guy on his ship during deployment and filled the the necessary packet. Now what is my Sailor supposed to do besides sleep on the ship. Does he have any priority being an E-4? When can he live off base and get an allowance?
There, now you can't call me Know It All anymore! lol, lol !!!
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I am not Little Miss Know It All, I am however VERY good at finding anything on the internet....lol :)
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April 14, 2008:
Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding – Newport News in Newport News, VA received a $453.3 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the FY 2008 Extended Drydocking Selected Restricted Availability (EDSRA) of USS Enterprise [CVN 65], the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Work on the 80,640t ship will be performed in Newport News, VA and is expected to be complete by August 2009.
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