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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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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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The Blue Star Flag
This is a site where you can order a flag for your window that lets your friends and neighbors and anyone else passing by that you have a family member serving in the military.
It is free, but takes approximately 4 to 6 weeks to get here.
The Navy protocol is that the flag can be displayed as soon as the recruit becomes a sailor, after Battlestations 21.
Before that they are a recruit, a *prospective* sailor, and are not yet afforded the honor.
So when your sailor gets their "cap" you can hang your flag and have a ceremony of your own.
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Permalink Reply by mamawalrus on
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Ordered my flag yesterday!! Woo Hoo
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Permalink Reply by Arwen on
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I got one of the free banners. I hate to say it, but it's pretty poor quality, printed on stiff, cheap material and rather small. It took more than 4 months to arrive. I guess I can't complain about a free flag, but I was pretty disappointed. I gave it to a Marine mom who didn't have a flag.
There is a much better banner, embroidered and sewn, not printed, at www.serviceflags.com and they got it to me before Battlestations. You can also have it embroidered with your sailor's name.
The tradition is that you order the flag early in boot camp, and begin displaying it when they finish Battlestations 21. They technically aren't "sailors" until they have passed Battlestations, so that's when it's displayed for the first time.
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It was a banner not a flag and what is the charge for this?
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Sorry about the confustion about banner vs flag. My post should have said "banner" in all instances.
The charge for an embroidered banner from serviceflags is:
$16.95 traditional embroidered felt
$21.95 embroidered nylon
$23.95 traditional embroidered felt with personalization
$28.95 embroidered nylon with personalization
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Thanks Arwen,,it looks awesome hanging.
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Went to the indoor flea market here in Arizona on Christmas vacation and found most of the flag booths do carry the Blue Star Flag and the Garden type that Arwen displayed in her pic! Just an FYI
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