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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
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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."
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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A place for past, present and future mom's of NROTC students to exchange information and support. Family, friends, and others can gather general information about Navy ROTC and officer programs. Everyone is welcome !!
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Latest Activity: May 21, 2022
Discussion Forum
How to pick NROTC units for scholarship app?
Started by rudyinok. Last reply by Suzie Nov 20, 2018. 31 Replies 1 Like
Hello :) I am very new to this forum, but my son has been wanting to be a Navy officer for several years now. He is now a junior at a special math and science high school. He will graduate from this high school in May 2014. so, this coming…Continue
PRK for Aviation
Started by willysmom. Last reply by 2017Commission Aug 18, 2017. 8 Replies 0 Likes
Hi my son is a sophomore at USC and is planning on applying for flight school (I'm sure that is not the correct term for it) but he will need prk or lasik. He has been told that either is fine and that we just find a doctor to do it and get it…Continue
Looking to join navy, need help
Started by Hopefulnavyrecruit. Last reply by 2017Commission Aug 18, 2017. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Hello everybody. Thanks for reading this, I'll try to keep it short.I am 17 years old, and I did not receive a normal, steady, education because of moving around so much all the time as a kid. I finally learned fractions last year, and am now on…Continue
Son not selected for NROTC scholarship
Started by luckymomx4. Last reply by Suzie Aug 2, 2017. 13 Replies 0 Likes
Our youngest son, Mark wasn't selected to receive the Navy ROTC Scholarship. He applied to 5 colleges and so far has received letters of acceptance to 3 so far. No clue as to why. We really thought he was going to get it. He applied in August 2015…Continue
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Comment by kgrmom on August 1, 2011 at 3:23pm
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Welcome Mom of 2 :) and no you didn't join too soon ! There is just a lot of chat sometimes on this group so you might need to scroll back quite a ways to find some information about applying. I know there is some here. Any questions you have can definitely be answered as most of us have been there in one way or another. Good luck to your son in the process.
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Comment by ArmyNavy mom on August 1, 2011 at 12:25pm
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June4th, the 3 nonactive years are if for any reason at all, the Navy decides to do a re-call for whatever reason, she will be re-called back into the active Navy. This can happen for deployments, any type of emergency disaster, or anything the gov along with the Armed Forces deems necessary. The thing is, not everybody is called, it is per her specialty, some will never get a recall, others, who's specialties are in 'high' demand may. I would imangine submariners, aviation and a few others deemed high priorities will get called first. Operation Iraq/Afghanistan Freedom had the most recalls to date, but you can see why. It also has to do with how the numbers of officers look in her field...are they over/under strength? 15 years ago, (before OIF/OAF) people didn't ever worry about getting called back in....today, it's a possibility, as you well know. Rest assured, they will explain what the in-active status entails, and she should def ask and lay out all her questions....yeah, it does tack on more years...
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Comment by June4th on August 1, 2011 at 11:08am
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I have a question....my daughter is going to be a soph and she is now getting nervous about the signing.....I know the commitment is 5 years but what does the 3 years of non active entail?
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moleskin def...bandages..maybe part of the first aid kit, not for blisters...and don't forget a small safety deposit box that only they have a key to. Most dorms don't have any drawers that lock and some rooms have no closet doors or doors that can't lock. At my son's school, it's mandatory to have one to keep all important papers, money, whatever...
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Comment by TwoForTheNavy on July 30, 2011 at 6:11pm
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Pattie,
Sorry to hear about your son, my prayers are with him.
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Comment by bora's mom on July 30, 2011 at 5:51pm
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Pattie sure hope your son recovers quickly. I share the anxiety of hearing that a kid broke away from home. Many here have gone though it.
I've been off for a while and catching up. My daughter is a second year now, it has gone by so fast. To the incoming kids, I agree, don't buy tons of new clothes, do practice ironing and run lots. Shamefully my kids didnt have a real working knowledge of laundry. Put together a mini medicine cabinet for them tailored to what they used this year. Blisters, tweezers? Show them how to use a small sewing kit and of course send duct tape with them.
Look back through here for the fall posts about the homesickness/I'm struggling phone calls. We all have been there. As with any list we all have different voices however we have a common bond. We love our kids and want them to be happy and strong without too many bumps, bruises and only reasonably sized/fast healing blisters.
Kris who cried every time kids left for college the first time.
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Pattie..yes, very sorry and I hope he does recover quickly..that just plain sucks...but AT LEAST, he will have another opportunity....wow, sorry for him
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Comment by J/J Mom on July 30, 2011 at 10:46am
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Pattie -- i'm so sad for all of you!! For him to have to go back to OCS will __, well, i guess on the positive side he will get to go back!! lol
Hugs and definitely prayers your way.
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Comment by suvwi on July 30, 2011 at 12:08am
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Carolyn~ Mountain Warfare is (Marine Option 2C cruise) is held in Bridgeport, CA. The training center has a web site, it is beautiful. Brit loved it, hard work and rain but he got to repel down cliffs. He also got his first 3 coins, which are a big deal.However the biggest deal to his younger siblings was the MREs he got to bring home. They loved them. Now trying to mentally prepare myself for next summer and OCS, since that will be most of the summer.
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I think it depends on the airlines. Brit flew home on Frontier with his gear for Mountain Warfare (plus all his stuff for summer) and was prepared to pay to get that stuff through since he wasn't active at that point. They took without a thought, thanked him for his service. I think he flew Southwest to and from Mountain Warfare and had no problems either. I agree with you Carolyn airlines are very random these days.
On another note Carolyn didn't your son go to Mountain Warfare?
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