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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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Discussion Forum
Break down week by week
Started by lemonelephant. Last reply by lemonelephant Jul 25, 2018. 196 Replies 36 Likes
Flights from Bootcamp to San Antonio for MA School
Started by julie. Last reply by lemonelephant Jan 19, 2017. 7 Replies 1 Like
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Comment by Caitsmamma on August 29, 2013 at 1:29pm
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Folks, let's all remember that a lot is lost in the translation when we are reading written posts. The nuances of facial expressions and body language are all missing. It's easy to interpret criticism when it definitely was not intended. Nobody is "grading" anyone here; the intent of this site is to support each other and share important information. And there is nothing wrong with good natured ribbing, either. Let's all remember that and give each other the benefit of the doubt. Be kind.
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Comment by chriscwick on August 29, 2013 at 11:42am
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This was a godsend almost four years ago!
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This is really a good site to be during these days. The "week by week breakdown" link is an essential for new Moms on this adventure! Welcome aboard, you have good company here.
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Comment by TexanMom Ship13 Div 333 on August 29, 2013 at 11:37am
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My son will be heading to SA for A school Saturday and need all the guidance from everyone on what goes on and what support the family can give.
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Comment by Brysmom on August 29, 2013 at 9:16am
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We are all here for support and guidance from the experienced ones. I assumed since I grouped it with baby shampoo, dawn and getting sprayed you would have understood I meant visine. I apologize for hurting your feelings.
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Comment by lemonelephant on August 28, 2013 at 11:11pm
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You do just great.
Sometimes tensions run high, nerves on edge. What seems like a simple comment to us can trip a switch in someone else. Reading something typed lacks the personal contact a face to face has where you can read expressions, see emotions & know that the person "speaking" really cares. Even for a complete stranger & their loved one.
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chriscwick, thanks for that. I think that this just proves to me that for my feelings to be hurt that I must not be handling everything as well as I want to think I am.
(((((hug))))) for anyone needing one.
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Gabesmom and mom2cdjk, thanks.
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Take a breath y'all, please. Shall we regroup & start again. Emotions run high, we are here for a reason, please remember.
Lemonelephant has been & hopefully continues to be wonderful source. With OC spray, which is very painful no matter what you do, I feel she just wanted clarity for this significant trial for your sailors to keep them safe & as comfortable as they can be.
Mine's gotten it several times in his soon to be four year career as MAA. He prefers tear gas, with which he got nailed as collateral damage from the many often violent protests in Bahrain. He says it's a breeze compared to OC. Even with remedies it takes him almost three days to recover completely. He felt like home made dirt.
Lemonelephant, if I've never been verbal with my thanks, let me do so now. Thanks for your info, insight & support. Feel better soon.
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