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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.
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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."
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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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I hear ya...my wasn't home for 3 Christmas's....) I was always on deployment.
momof2sailors...that's AWESOME you got to pin your son!!
So sad about the shipmate....so hard on everyone.
I remember when mine got on the carrier they loss a pilot as 2 jets crashed into each other...my son talked with the pilot right before they went up and was heading to the galley when the "birds in the water" call came over the ships PA. He couldn't believe it....there's counselors for them.
There's an organization called CSADD: http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=78589...
part of what this group goes is train them to look for signs of suicide or destructive behavior.
BeachBunny, Hi No he will not be coming home :(
It's getting harder for me this will be the second Christmas that he's not with us. Hoping to Skype. How about T will he be coming home? Have a great Holiday
I just got back yesterday from seeing my son and pinning him. Everything was good until last night. I found out that after my son dropped me off at the airport yesterday and he got home only to find out that one of his shipmates (a friend of his) they think committed suicide. Will know more after the investigation. It was another shipmate that found him. I feel at a loss for words to say to him. I just want to put my arms around him and shield him from the pain. He won't talk about it. A friend of his mom reached out to me to get his phone number so that her son could call him.They were stationed together in Japan. The squadron are all off work till Thursday so hopefully they can try to work thru it. And seek counseling if needed.
Hope everyone have a great Holiday
No but good luck congrats & have a nice time
Thanks BeachBunny it helps I know he's on nights now, but all we keep asking is when we text just text back something anything... He is my oldest & first to leave the nest. It's hard for me because we were so close before he went in. We would love for him just to check in, his dad got hurt over the weekend and we haven't heard back from him since it happened. We tell him just a short text would be nice. I guess I will wait for him.. It's so hard beening on the East coast. Thanks have a nice day
Hi ReneeHum....glad he hear he came home for a visit......hummmm that's a hard one, maybe he's asking for some space....At least he said something instead of ignoring the text...Is he your first kiddo to leave home?
I hear from mine maybe once a week and we skype when he's on deployment in a port, really only a few times. I do stalk him on FB...lol..not really but can get an idea of what's he's doing if he post anything. I'll send him an IM but I don't post on his main broad. Most of the time he's working night check and sleeping during the day time. Then there's the duty rotation schedule so mainly he's working a lot!
I did pop down there a few weeks ago to help him. He asked me too. I bought back home some stuff he won't need for awhile since he'll be on detachment or deployment so much as he was downsizing his living space.
There's some months I hear more from him then ours. I let him take the lead. But if I don't hear from him. I'll just text "hello" then after a few days. I'll text "knock, knock". He'll call me laughing...I'll answer "hello stranger" with a chuckle...I like to keep the phone calls "lite" in subject and ask open ended questions like "what's going? or what's new?"....hummm once he said," New, I got another tattoo"....:)
Sorry I don't have an answer but to share my experience...
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