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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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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.

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For "We Build, We Fight", moms!!

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The Ten OPSEC and COMSEC Points:

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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Gulfport house for lease

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Ft. Leonard Wood

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Comment by mom2nw on October 24, 2011 at 9:58am
MamaBear:  my son had A-school at FLW, too.  and then combat training in Gulfport and now he is stationed in Gulfport.  He is also an EO.  I was going to drive down for his A school graduation, but then the weather was pretty bad during January (I'm from WI).  He was able to come home for Christmas which was about a month before his A school graduation. In A school they get different privileges at each phase, like Denise said....like being able to be off base. Unfortunately the other name for FLW is Fort Lost in the Woods--haha, nothing much to do in the middle of nowhere and the base is huge. The good thing is one of the phases was that they are able to have phones/computers, and communication seemed to be better. Another of the  phases, if I remember, is they could wear civilian clothes. LOL-it seemed to be a big deal for my son.
Comment by mama bear on October 23, 2011 at 4:33pm

Thanks for the information I will ask her to that checking on her status

 

Comment by mama bear on October 22, 2011 at 9:06pm

Fort Leonard Wood, in Missouri

Comment by Terry'saproudmom(Ship02-Div936) on October 22, 2011 at 8:15pm
MamaBear: Which base is she doing A school? That might help narrow down what is done from that base and then someone who has been there with their loved one might be able to give you a good answer.
Comment by mama bear on October 22, 2011 at 7:30am
Good Morning, not sure if this is another group I should be in for support, but I will give you some background information and than together we can decided if I need to be here.  My daughter is at A school right now, she is going to be a heavy equipment operator.  I don't understand what happens next after A school.  I haven't been able to see her since she left in March and due to her not graduating with her class because of injuries in her legs, and hip we didn't get to go to Great Lakes for the graduation.  Some people say you get to visit them in A school, some said you do not.  Some said they get to come home for a few days after A school, some say they do not.  I miss her terribly for many reasons but the most is my health isn't good and just in the last 18months we have become very close again.  So when she decided to join the Navy Branch I was very suprise.  As a mother you usually have mixed emotions, although I am very proud of her to enter in this journey of life, I am also very scared because of what is happening in the world today.  I know in my heart she will succeed in what ever comes her way but that doesn't stop me from wishing her to come home forever.
Comment by ronbri22 on October 15, 2011 at 3:19pm
Half way point for nmcb 4. I only wish they would let him reenlist! Two tries left.
Comment by Jaz04 on October 15, 2011 at 9:20am
no seabeewife, he is in Gulfport.  How long will you be in LA then?  Yep civil ceremony will probably be next weekend.  Thank goodness because I hear there is a lot of paperwork to take care of.  My son took the time to talk to the insurance yesterday.  Good to know the pregnancy will be covered.
Comment by seabeewife88 on October 14, 2011 at 10:00pm
Jaz I am Franklinton, la!! About 45 mins from bush! And that's what we did, just had a quick wedding, our big wedding date is in August because he will be gone until then. Is your son in Port Hueneme?
Comment by Jaz04 on October 14, 2011 at 7:04pm
seabeewife, it is short deploy, he is in batt 7.  Where abouts in LA?  She is from Bush (around the Covington area).  Denise, they are talking to her parents tonight about a quick civil ceremony so that he can get all the paper work taken care of, but then having a church wedding in December.  I guess a group of them has a class today about getting everything in order before they leave.  I reminded him that he will have to change the names on his POA that he already has because she will be next of kin.
Comment by seabeewife88 on October 14, 2011 at 3:29pm
Jaz04 what kind of deployment? Just a 8 or 9 month deployment, yes he will get it. My seabee gets deployed next month and I'm going to be staying in Louisiana. We will get the bah for port hueneme bc it goes by his home port and not where I live. But if he is getting deployed for a couple years I'm not sure about that, since she should go with him...
 

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