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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.

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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

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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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ALUMNI OF PIR 01/13/2012 TG 08 — 07 Divisions (037–042 & 908)

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This group is for families and friends of Sailors who graduated on January 13, 2012. We can share information, concerns and ways to connect as we continue the journey from bootcamp to PIR and beyond.

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir01132012
Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 82
Latest Activity: Mar 6, 2016

Welcome families and friends to PIR January 13, 2012!

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Comment by kev323 on November 22, 2011 at 1:00pm: Checking in...Raining AND crappy here in Chicago.

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on November 22, 2011 at 12:32pm: Ken'sMom, We are practically neighbors, lol. I'm currently in Columbia, but we are looking for a house now in the Sykesville/Eldersburg area. My hubby works in DC.

barbydahlzz, Wow, already and in KY? That's craziness.

Comment by KensMoM (09/042 ~ PIR 1/13/2012) on November 22, 2011 at 12:25pm: @Betsy - I am in Maryland also! Yup, it is nasty and gross here..I am in Rockville, you? Well, Moms! I just sent out 4 letters this morning to my SR!! Well, 3 letters and one Thanksgiving card! Today was an easier day for me...getting his form letter last night perked me up knowing I will at least be able to communicate with him via letters!! Sooo rain or not, it is a Fine Navy Day!!

Comment by NavyBear7 on November 22, 2011 at 11:50am: barbydahlzz...that is the nastiest four letter word ever! YUCK! :)

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on November 22, 2011 at 11:39am: barbydahlzz, ok, yes I'll admit it, I'm a little more than "a bit" jealous, but I was very lucky to have made a trip out there to see her in September, so I guess, in all fairness, I can't cry about it too much.

Comment by NavyBear7 on November 22, 2011 at 11:14am: GOOD MORNING everyone! Hope eveyone is doing well. Fingers crossed for the remaining letters that need to be received. Have a groovy kind of day :)

Comment by Barbydahlzz ALUM 09/075 USS JPJ on November 22, 2011 at 11:12am: raining like crazy in Kentucky too... storms later.. then i heard the "S" word for monday... NOT the dirty word... SNOW...LOL

I LOVE DISNEY .. but not a member of the vacation club.. bought a timeshare in Orlando years ago.. but sold it to buy a house...hahah... Betsy... Id be MORE than a weee bit jealous... I'd be saying TAKE ME TAKE ME HHAHAHAH

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on November 22, 2011 at 10:57am: Good Morning, Ladies. I hope everyone is having a nice morning. It's raining like crazy here in Maryland again.

Btw, I am also a big Disney person. We belong to the Disney Vacation Club and have been taking our kids to their resorts since the early 1990's. My daughter is living in Hawai (fiance is Navy) and she is going to their new resort on Oahu next weekend for her birthday celebration. Yes, I admit I'm a wee bit jealous!

Comment by Barbydahlzz ALUM 09/075 USS JPJ on November 22, 2011 at 10:20am: Good Morning NAVY MOMS and KEV...

Hey Kev... i sooooooooooo agree with your comment on Have a Glass of Wine (or 2) when you open the box...

SNICK.... Honey ur letter is coming!!! stupid snail mail

LADIES OF DIV 039.... you guys beat me to it.!!! Im soooo excited..

ok, i reread my sr's note he wrote on the form letter all the time... especially the line that says "he's having fun" wonder if he is still?

Comment by diannep on November 22, 2011 at 9:21am: Springhill Suites and Residence Inn are the hotels that seem to have the most positive feedback on this site. They are close...each about 4.5 to 5 miles from RTC. Both have PIR shuttle service. Springhill is by the Walmart shopping center where there are restaurants---that is also where Sarge's MeetNGreet is held...in one of the restaurants/bars there. Residence (where we stayed) is in a quiet office park area just up the road, about 1/2 mile closer to RTC. They also have a free hot/cold buffet breakfast in the lobby. PET FRIENDLY too.

Good morning, everyone!