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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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Pittburgh and west. Pa navy mom's
Started by hollyP(03/025). Last reply by Rjsnavymom Sep 3, 2019. 35 Replies 0 Likes
Any Pittsburgh Navy Moms Out There?
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Comment by LLovesmysailor on June 17, 2009 at 8:06pm
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We had sun and it was in the high 70"s yesterday. At the moment its flooding all over the area. I know we have Moms down there, hope you're all OK?
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We have very bad weather rolling through the Pittsburgh area. I'm up in Cranberry and its pretty bad up here. I've heard that there are tornados in the area closer and to the east of Pittsburgh. Are you Mom's down there OK? I'm keeping all those in Allegheny County and Westmoreland county in my thoughts.
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Comment by Kim on June 17, 2009 at 3:09pm
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Jana.. great idea. I sent you my email.
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Hi Jana and Cathy. I guess this is where we let you know about The Box. A few days after they leave you will get The Box that contains their civilian life. I always suggest that you prepare with at least 2 boxes of tissues. I cried for days and I come from a military family. Three generations to be exact. But there is just something about that darn Box. I cried again when his brother's Box arrived.
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Hi Jana! I live in Collegeville (10 minutes from you). Welcome. This is a great group. I think you will like it here.
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Comment by Marcy on June 16, 2009 at 9:09am
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Hi all, my son is also up for 3rd class petty officer in September. Does it take them 6 months to get their pay for that? WOW.
Candice, sorry to hear about the state trooper, that just happened not to long ago around Pittsburgh too and I had never seen soo many troopers and others in my life either. It is great to see they all come out to support each other. Where did this happen? I don't get to watch much tv so I unfornutaly did not hear about it on there. My best friends husband is a state trooper and when my son gets out of the Navy he wants to do that also. It scares me but if that is what he wants to do that is fine with me. Well everyone have a great day.
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Hi Everyone, I just heard from Alex. He made 2nd class. It was a very short e-mail but great news.
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Welcome Barb to the group. My son is a CTR and is West Virginia. He is up for 3rd class petty officer in September and an E4. So proud of him. I just wanted to say welcome and have a great day. This group and others are a wonderful help for all involved.
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Lyn, I didn't know that. My insurance dropped my son because he was not in school. That was 3 days before he left for boot camp. They did not tell me that boot camp was considered school. However, when I inquired about putting him on Cobra for three days they told me not to worry about it. The whole process takes 3 months to drop him. If anything where to happen, I could always back pay the cobra for the months that he was dropped. I had Aetna at the time. You really have to be your own advocate when it comes to your healthcare.
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Linda, Glad to hear everything worked out so well for your son. The problem seems to be in that BC time frame. Whether the Navy knows about an old injury or they discover a pre-existing condition, the Navy just discharges the recruit. The only things they will treat are injuries or illness that obviously are connected to BC. I don't think most parents realize that during BC their child is a seaman recruit. Not actually in the Navy quite yet. So the Navy has no contractual commitment to them.
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