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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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PIR 10/1/10
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This group is intended to unite those who have loved ones with a PIR date of October 1st, 2010.
Location: USA
Members: 125
Latest Activity: Jul 30, 2013
THIS IS NOT ME YELLING...HOWEVER IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!!
ANYTHING POSTED ON THIS FORUM IS PUBLIC! EVEN IN THE DISCUSSION FORUM ABOVE! UNLESS YOU EMAIL OR PRIVATE CHAT, THE INFO YOU SHARE ON THIS WEBSITE IS 100% VIEWABLE BY ANYONE! ON THE INTERNET, IN THE WORLD, INCLUDING RDC'S IN GL! I WILL DELETE POSTS CONTAINING NAMES OF SR'S, RDC'S, OR EVEN FAMILY OF SAID. IT IS IN EVERYONES BEST INTEREST AND SAFETY TO KEEP CERTAIN INFORMATION PRIVATE.
THANK YOU FOR YOU UNDERSTANDING AND ATTENTION!
With all that out of the way, I am thrilled to have access to the information, support, and friendship on N4M. I want to keep it safe for our SR's and families, and for future SR's and their families. Please read and respect the OPSEC guidlines posted on N4M's main page. These guidelines are a foundation for your SR and family now that he/she is just days away from becoming a United States Sailor.
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Discussion Forum
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Started by Lauren - Sub Wife - Bangor, Wash. Last reply by USnavymom63 Jul 30, 2013. 28 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Tifani on September 8, 2010 at 11:16pm
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Nevermind I figured out the meaning. Sorry.
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I'm sorry what does BS21 mean?
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Awwww.... Thank you ;o) I would love the link. My husband has researched it quite a bit and we saw that it is very hard to get in. All we can do is say a prayer for our son. Whatever plan god has for our son I know he will do well. Just the not knowing is driving me crazy.
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Comment by LTLY on September 8, 2010 at 11:02pm
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Guestimation here, based on what JessicaB posted earlier and also looking at other PIR dates before us...until further notice (from our recruits) BS21 should start on 9/23. I know we get excited when the calls come in, but the next call we get try to remember to ask your SR if they know when their div goes to BS21. Ask the same in the next letter or card you send.
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Thank you ladies for the nice welcome. @ JessicaB-Sailor Mom.... Yes it is Ceremonial Gaurd. I'm trying to learn all this new lingo. My husband is in the Army Reserves and everything is so different. @ LTLY..... I just purchased our plane tickets, reserved a car & motel room this pass weekend. Is it best to download the parking pass and drive to the base the morning of the graduation or should we just ride the shuttle? I was wondering if all of you ladies have been getting letters & phone calls often? I miss my son terribly but am also extremely proud of him ;0) I can't hardly wait for Oct. to come .
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Welcome Tifani! First off if you are planning on attending PIR make your hotel arrangements now. Some places are allready full. If you are traveling by air, tickets are increasing in price each day, sometimes by the hour. Consider not purchasing refundable or exchangeable tickets and just get regular ones. If for some reason you have to change your flight, it may be cheeper to pay a fee of $100 or so than purchase ref/ex tix in the first place. Those seem to be running $800 or more per ticket. Prepare to head to PIR at 6am to avoid long lines of traffic. We are all so very excited about this day and soooooo very proud of our future sailors!!! Ask any questions you have and we will all be glad to share our experiences and opinions with you!
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Comment by txsailorsam-Donna on September 8, 2010 at 10:31pm
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I don't know if everyone has a Hobby Lobby around them, but, they carry the Navy scrap book, too.
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Hi Everyone, I am brand new here. My son is in Ship 13 Div 323. I have only received 1 letter from him so far. He has been able to write his wife & call her at least once. We recently found out his PIR is 10/1/2010 and can hardly wait. I was wondering if anyone of you have a sailor in my sons Division? If so, what have you heard about the day of graduation? The last letter we received he told us he was waiting to hear if he was accepted into Honor Ceremony School. If he is accepted we will only get to spend 6 hours that day with him. If he isn't we should get to see him all weekend. The waiting and not knowing is hard.
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Comment by Elaine-PIR 10/1/10 on September 8, 2010 at 10:23pm
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JessicaB, we only have 10 Divisions. Does that make a difference when they start BS21?
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@ckwcas- 946 doesn't know when they have BS21 yet. They kind of throw them in there somewhere during that week. Keep asking your SR in letters to notify you asap. Then let us know so we can post it for everyone.
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