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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.
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:
**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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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Ship 13 (USS Marvin Shields) Division 111 and 112 (Brother Divisions)Welcome to the Division Discussion for Divisions 111 and 112 These two divisions are brother divisions and will be training together from t… Started by ellen0502 |
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Mar 23, 2014 Reply by Praying for Hunter |
Ship 09 (USS John F Kennedy) Divisions 117 and 118 (Brother Divisions)Welcome to the Division Discussion for Divisions 117 and 118 These two divisions are brother divisions and will be training together from t… Started by ellen0502 |
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Mar 19, 2014 Reply by wickwook |
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!Hi Friends!! These are the tips from the March 8, 2013 PIR! It went by so quick, but is now a treasured memory! Here are some of my thoug… Started by CatMom509 |
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Mar 17, 2014 Reply by CatMom509 |
Ship 03 (USS Hopper) Divisions 115 and 116 (Brother Divisions)Welcome to the Division Discussion for Divisions 115 and 116 These two divisions are brother divisions and will be training together from t… Started by ellen0502 |
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Mar 16, 2014 Reply by Lovingmysailor(SHIP03 DIV 115) |
^^^^BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST ! ^^^^This is their final test. After this, they graduate and are sailors! It is a 12 hr overnight drill testing them on all they have learned… Started by diannep |
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Mar 14, 2014 Reply by diannep |
My son is also in DIV 112,What is the recommended time to make flight and hotel reservations for PIR on 03/21/14 I will be coming in from Texas. Started by cjsmom |
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Mar 8, 2014 Reply by ellen0502 |
Coming from CaliforniaI don't know if this is the appropriate place to ask this question, but is anyone traveling to PIR from California? I'm flying out of Sacr… Started by LisaAnn |
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Mar 5, 2014 Reply by ellen0502 |
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 919Welcome to the Division Discussion for Division 919 Your SRs, soon to be SAILORS, are becoming friends, and some of them may be heading to… Started by ellen0502 |
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Feb 22, 2014 Reply by ellen0502 |
Ship 09 Div 118My son called over the weekend. He was tired and very stressed. I told him to take it day by day. He said most of them were taking it meal… Started by wickwook |
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Feb 18, 2014 Reply by ellen0502 |
Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 113 and 114 (Brother Divisions)Welcome to the Division Discussion for Divisions 113 and 114 These two divisions are brother divisions and will be training together from t… Started by ellen0502 |
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