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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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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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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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 KarlaJean (Seabee Mom) on April 12, 2012 at 4:16pm
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Thank you Tobianne! We have always been really close and I definatly look forward to the phone calls...even one would make me so happy at this point, she has now been at bootcamp 7 weeks and I have only received one call, at least I get letters every wednesday, or I would probably be locked up by now, haha, thank god I get to see her next friday!
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Comment by chelsealoo on April 12, 2012 at 9:54am
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Oh that's good news! Hopefully it works out as well for us!
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Comment by sondra.marie on April 12, 2012 at 9:43am
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My husband actually got a house the same day he applied and so did my neighbors! It was super easy and the ladies at the lincoln military housing are super helpful:)
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When did you apply for housing? Did it take six months or were you able to get right in? I actually want to live on base. Seems like it'd be way easier:)
Plus having neighbors in the same battalion would be awesome:)
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i was just thinking about you miss chelsea i havent been on here in awhile! we actually live on base in bruns park area i love it i know some people dont really like living on base but its just so convinient for my husband and I! We have a 3 bedroom townhome but there are smaller ones we also have neighbors that are in 4 so its pretty awesome!
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Hey Sondra. How's PH treating you so far? :) good I hope! I wanted to ask you if you lived in base housing or off base. This is our first move and im stressing about finding a place to live. :)
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Comment by Tobianne on April 10, 2012 at 8:01am
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I sent a box to Shepherd for my daughter. I would suggest sheets. They have twin beds and if I remember, they can borrow sheets until they get some. Let her also know she can use the her cell right from the start, just know that for a laptop, the internet connection is horrible. We got a "hot spot" for my kiddo and it rarly connected. The girls are on the first floor and the windows do not open so it is hard, she can go outside and may get connction. Phase up is different for all. She will know how it all works soon.
I will tell you this, cherish the time in A-school (if you ae close with her), in the start they have much downtime. I got calls 3-5 times a day. Now I get calls about every 2-3 days, mostly FB. She is deployed and that is not even typical for most.
She will be busy as class starts, lots of information to learn. You will likely here how she is "bored" then class will kick in.
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Thank you thats good to know I didn't even think about pj's
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Comment by michelle on April 9, 2012 at 12:27am
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karla,when my son went off to A school w gave him his lap top cell phone,whatever she can fit in her bg and her pack back she cantake they dont get to were clothes until they get phased up but pack her items to sleep in they can were those to bed and yes her underwear
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Thank you. I already asked her and she wants me to bring the bag she had packed before she left...which is a full suitcase stuffed full. So I was trying to thin it out I bought her a black back pack (someone had said at one point they could have one) and I was just going to put the stuff in it she could have, and let her either take the bag if she could or pull the items out at the airport.
LOL yeah I know she wants different underwear for sure!
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