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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:
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Don't discuss future destinations or ports of call!
Don't discuss future operations or missions!
Don't discuss dates and times of when we will be in port or conducting exercises!
Don't discuss readiness issues and numbers!
Don't discuss specific training equipment!
Don't discuss people's names and billets in conjunction with operations!
Don't speculate about future operations!
Don't spread rumors about operations!
Don't assume the enemy is not trying to collect information on you so he can kill you, he is!
Be smart, use your head, and always think OPSEC and COMSEC when using email or phone!
Rules of thumb for parents and loved ones:
*If your sailor indicates to you they can't tell you something, believe them. Don't try to coax them into telling.
*If it is published by the navy about where a ship or unit has been (not going), that is when it's okay to share.
*If your sailor is in a high security area, say a nuke or EOD, consider using a nick name for them and you, a seperate email without your name on it, and don't even tell where YOU live. Let them tell you what they want you to tell others or if they are worried about info, always let them know you are on here. That's why they are careful on here about only putting first names on your profile page.
*Be aware, the OPSEC 10 points are about what they can't talk about. Think about what YOU might share as a parent or loved one of a military member that could cause trouble. You also have a responsibilty.
*Be respectful and teach other parents if they don't know and say too much, no need to be disrespectful or mean to them about it. Just guide them and let them know they maybe need to rewrite or delete the post. There isn't a member on here that wants to cause trouble or harm. They just aren't thinking or don't know.
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Comment by candy (ship 07/div 163) on June 28, 2012 at 5:58pm
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So is mine =)
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Comment by Momofahousefull on June 28, 2012 at 7:53am
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Candy: welcome aboard! My son is a SeaBee in Gulfport. He's a BU (builder).
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Hello all. My son just graduated from bootcamp on June 1st and is training in Gulfport, MS right now to be a SeaBee.
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Comment by ebigirl on June 18, 2012 at 10:57pm
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I'm glad that it's working out for him. I just think that what they are doing to the Seabee Unit's in general stinks. But what do I know? I'm just a mom!! LOL
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Comment by mama bear on June 17, 2012 at 6:16pm
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sorry to hear that your Seabee was shown the door, hope all is going with him now and his family including yourself. Hang in there better days ahead.
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Denise...I'm hoping you will hang around here to help guide us "newbie" Seabee moms. I feel bad for your Seabee and the way(s) he was shown the door. Glad to hear that he's good with it. That makes all the difference in the world. :-)
Ebigirl
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Comment by SeabeeWife20 on June 14, 2012 at 11:15pm
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Usually they do get a leave period. They give them a 96 the weekend after they arrive. So this last deployment's homecoming,my hubby came home the week of Thanksgiving. They arrived Tuesday and didn't return to work until the next Monday. Then they were able to take leave for Christmas. It just depends on the higher ups, time of year, and demand for people to be on base. Since they won't be doing much those first few months after returning, they are pretty easy going as long as you have the time to take the leave.
Now, as far as the actual homecoming goes, there won't be a lot of detail until just before they arrive. We may know the month for awhile, but that can change. For example, they weren't supposed to arrive until December last year and half way through deployment it changed to November. There is a care line to call as it gets closer to the return that will give you approximate times and days they will arrive. Again, nothing is ever set in stone. You can also talk to the ombudsman's of the battalion to get information. Personally, i find i know more by talking to my husband about whats going on, but most people discuss things with the ombudsman. About a month before they return, homecoming signs are painted. They start placing them at gate entrances and quarterdecks about a week before they come home. They arrive in groups known as AP (advanced party), Main Body (the bulk of the battalion), and DP (delayed party). Your Seabee will have to tell you what group he's in so you know when they announce on that care line that it's his group. There is also a list for people who don't have base access that you'll want to get on. Your Seabee has to give your name to a specific person or fill out a sheet stating that he wants you and whoever else to be at homecoming, you can check with an ombudsman as it gets closer to make sure you're on the list. He will find out this information while on deployment, so just kind of make him aware of it now. Then if you come down for homecoming, you just show your ID at the gate and you'll be able to get on. We wait at the training hall. They give a time frame for you to be there. They will announce when they land, when they are moving, when they are at the gate, and then you'll see and hear the rest. It's amazing, beautiful, tear-jerking, exciting, and every other emotion you can imagine would exist with such happiness. There is nothing like it in the world. You swell with pride and the moment they step off the bus and find you in the crowd it all becomes worth it. I hate the goodbye's, but those hello's are just something I wouldn't give up for the world.
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Comment by julieb1019 on June 14, 2012 at 9:00pm
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Thank you it will be a great and memorable trip! I am proud of your husband too. He must be an amazing guy. Hope he gets home soon! Btw how do homecomings work. Do they get leave soon after they return?
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My husband is having the same problem. We can't take any leave until he gets home from deployment. He had a chit put in and everything, then they put him into "C" school and had to cancel. He explains "C" school like this, " It's "A" School on steroids!" basically they learn their job in a lot more depth than they did in A school. He is the youngest person in his class and possibly one of the youngest to ever go through C school. Most people who go through C school have been in the Navy at least 5 to 6 years. He hits his two year mark next month and is already an E-5. He was advanced with this last cycle and we were so excited. He is doing great things in the Navy and will go far! Sorry about my bragging, but he just makes me so proud. I hope you enjoy your visit on the coast!
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Dona congrats to your Seabee. Enjoy every moment of leave. Mine can't take leave until after he gets back hense the trip to Gulfport. My son also said that he heard Mobile is a fun day trip too.
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