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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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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PIR Feb. 11, 2011
Members: 172
Latest Activity: Nov 11, 2015
Discussion Forum
Ribbons - PIR 2-11-11
Started by aprul(ship11,div63). Last reply by J-04/128 Feb 26, 2014. 19 Replies 0 Likes
Hey PIR 2-11-11,I am making ribbons for anyone who wants them. Some of you have requested information from me and I have tried to email or message each of you personally. You can send supplies or some of the ladies are sending money orders. The…Continue
Nuke A School FAQ
Started by NF Mom. Last reply by SailingHi Ship 9 Div 071 Feb 25, 2011. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Nuke A School FAQ click the Above LinkContinue
who has a Sailor staying in great lakes for A-school???
Started by Mrs Eubank. Last reply by Mrs Eubank Feb 19, 2011. 9 Replies 0 Likes
my sailor is staying in great lakes for AECF and his rate is ET. anyone out there with that or just in great lakes????????
*******BattleStations********
Started by diannep. Last reply by vydeoynkhorne Feb 16, 2011. 150 Replies 0 Likes
This is the final test for your recruits. When they pass this, they are sailors and trade in their recruit cap for their sailor cap in a capping ceremony afterwards. The ship they do this on was designed by Disney, so it is very realistic. During…Continue
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Comment by BBWinthemoon on December 16, 2010 at 5:50pm
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YEA!!!! got the form letter today! PIR is 2/11. Short note, says he is fine, they can't write yet, but he will as soon as they let him. He arrived GL on the 9th, so those of you who were on that day, you should be getting your letters soon.
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Comment by mamawalrus on December 16, 2010 at 5:46pm
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sailorgirl@ Hi and welcome! When did your BF leave and what is his rating? Did you get your confirmation letter on his PIR and the box of cloths?
Dress would be nice but maybe wait and see what the weather will be like as we get closer.... :)
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Comment by nicole~a sailors girl(: on December 16, 2010 at 5:41pm
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sailorsgirl - I DO NOTTTTT SUGGEST WEARING A DRESS!!!!!!!!! Unless you wear leggings or something under it. For 2 reasons. One - it will be COLDDDD ASSSS HELLLLL!!!!!!!! Two - When you're jumping over people/running around crazy to find him.....Sometimes things happen, such as falling, dresses flying up etc..showing people what shouldn't be seen. Y'know?
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Comment by diannep on December 16, 2010 at 4:26pm
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Waiting all day for my son to arrive for Christmas leave...delayed in VA this morning by snow/ice...by 3 hours. That caused him to mss 2 connections to home...so hoping that he makes the next one...he will have then endured almost 12 hours of travel today rather than the 6 it should have taken...not too much fun, but it could have been alot worse
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Ok, my son obviously didn't pay attention during the "ironing" class, Lynne. Said he spent 45 minutes ironing his dress blues at his duty station and STILL failed...said he tried "my hardest!" He resorted to paying his roommate to do it, who obviously didn't miss the class! Yep, he passed then!
Nice poem, Nicole! That about captures it all!
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Hello ladies - if you have any questions about anything(Even weather, feel free to ask, I live about 3 hours from GL, and have been through it with a Sailor:)
They got on the bus & away they went,
They stepped on base, and the "kid - in - a - box" was sent.
A quick call home to say they've arrived,
Immediately after we all felt deprived.
One long week of P-DAYS and not a word,
Navy For Moms is sad, LET US BE HEARD!
On to week two and letters are being written,
When we recieve them we're certainly smitten!
Now to week three the yelling begins,
Recruits learn the ropes and are at wits ends.
When week four rolls around it begins to quiet down,
PFA's are in route & Uniforms are brought into "bootcamp - town".
Week five is here,
& Live fire is near.
Hooyah week six - we're almost there,
The Confidence Chamber & Fire Fighting, oh what a pair.
Finally week seven and coming to a close,
Battle Stations is here, and each division rose.
Week eight is the last, and that's all I can say,
NOW TO GET READY FOR PIR DAY!
The SAILORS march in and you begin to shed a tear,
They're so close, they're so near.
The band begins to play,
You're in shock at how still they stay.
"NOW HEAR THIS, NOW HEAR THIS, LIBERTY CALL!"
Everyone rushes down, & try not to fall!
Searching for your Sailor is one tough task,
Amongst those who scatter, you find yours alast!
As you leave the base to have a fun day,
You look up to God, sit there and pray.
Thank you lord for helping them through,
It's been tough for us, but we made it too.
You've blessed us here on this site.
We can't thank you enough, you showed us the light.
Something I did for a school poetry project, thought it may give you a feel for what happens during the weeks, and how exciting it is:)
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Comment by dee'smadre on December 16, 2010 at 10:33am
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Hee Hee, ironing and bed making. As much as I miss him, it does a moms heart good to think he's learning what that strange shaped appliance is. Thanks for the morning giggles.
Luckily my mail doesn't get here 'til its dark. :-)
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Comment by Postal1 (Ship 11 DIV 065) on December 16, 2010 at 10:21am
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Pench- There is a link in the discussions above. Click on view all right above the comment box.
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lol! love the 12 days from the navy! needed a good laugh I think that I am going to send that to my SR. Is it only 12 sleepless nights? I am at about 8. OH boy I thought when he got his drivers licence I wouldn't sleep, that was a walk in the park!
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Comment by himmiemom on December 16, 2010 at 10:16am
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Lynne....I laughed my a** off when I heard the news on that one also!!! Only my mailman is a woman :( Now, the UPS man definately!!!!!
Got a great laugh last night. I LOVE Jeff Dunham. For those of you who don't know who he is you gotta go to youtube and type in Achmen The Dead Terrorist goes to boot camp. It isn't Navy boot camp, I believe it is Marine boot camp, but still it felt sooooo good to laugh before I went to bed. Haven't done that in awhile.
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