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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.
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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Location: Northcarolina
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Started by PamperedMom. Last reply by percussionvalentine Jul 17, 2014. 16 Replies 5 Likes
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Comment by proudascanbe on September 4, 2012 at 5:31pm
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My son just got order for Cherry point...the end of October. He is a corpsman with C school in optometry....Can you tell me about Cherry Pont Base. He and his new wife will be looking for a place to live etc.
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Comment by zette Ship 14 Div. 344 on September 4, 2012 at 1:13am
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Hey oceanby, he is undesignated at this point so I don't know what he will be doing. His recruiter told me he will be training for several jobs and will eventually get to choose one. Right now I am taking the wait and see approach.
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Comment by Oceanby on September 2, 2012 at 8:38am
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Zette, I sent you a friend request. I saw your son was staying in Great Lakes for A school. What will he be training for? Mine is also staying there. He is training for Quartermaster. They'll be there together!
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Thanks Oceanby :)). I have been unmercifully stalking the mailman hoping to get my first letter. You are right; boot camp does change things. This is my sr's first time really being away from home. It is quite possible that I am freaking out a lot more than he is. I can't wait to see him at graduation.
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Thanks Oceanby :)). I have been unmercifully stalking the mailman hoping to get my first letter. You are right; boot camp does change things. This is my sr's first time really being away from home. It is quite possible that I am freaking out a lot more than he is. I can't wait to see him at graduation.
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Welcome beachbum and zette! So happy to see you on our page! My son is at Great Lakes now too. His PIR is 10/5. I just received my first letter yesterday-so zette, look for yours next Thursday. My son told me he wouldn't write, but in yesterday's letter he told me he has a bunch of letters to mail, they just wouldn't let him mail them all! My....how boot camp changes things! If you see other moms on here close to you, try to do a dinner and get together. (I think that is what we are trying to organize here) Welcome!
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Hi everyone! I am from Cherryville, NC. My son left for BC on 8/20 and is presently in GL. His PIR is 10/12. After that, he will go to A school also in GL. I also have a daughter in the National Guard. It is exciting to be part of a group of Navy moms. Looking forward to meeting other moms in the area.
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Comment by beachbum on August 23, 2012 at 8:31pm
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Hey Everyone !!! I am a Mom who lives outside Fayetteville NC. My son is currently at BC in Great Lakes Illinois. He will be headed to Groton CT when he PIR's. Very excited to be part of a great group. The Navy is all new to me, as I am a Army veterans wife. But I am learning the lingo slowly.
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Comment by HonorHim on August 20, 2012 at 11:44pm
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I see your post Hismom and Oceansby (and western moms). I will check out the Holiday project Chris! thanks so much. This is a busy busy week....so I'll be able to plan for something soon. Stay tuned. I'd like to get us together :)
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Hey All it's been a long time since I have been on this sight. My son joined in Oct. 2010. He has been in Italy a little over 9 months and I miss him very much. He is our only child. I'm from Kinston so I'm not to far away. It's good to know that there are other navy mom's close by.
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