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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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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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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 Kelleypen on September 18, 2010 at 11:11am
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Son's paternity leave is over on Tuesday, then it's back to deployment. I think it will be even harder now, but I'm glad he had this time with his baby.
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Comment by RobinM on September 18, 2010 at 10:01am
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j'smom. Sorry to hear about the girlfriend thing. I'm thankful our son didn't have that going on when he left. Hope things get better for him. Dylan had a buddy he met in A school get stationed down there with him in the same battalion. He was pretty excited about that as well.
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liongirl, we were allowed to go to the gate with our son. He was able to go through like the employees security line or something and we had to do the normal security things, but he just went and got us passes that let us back with him until he left. I would have been the same way if I hadn't been able to go to the gate!!
j'mom...how are you doing? Yeah our son is in Gulfport and doing well. He likes it but his sinuses and allergies have been giving him fits. Otherwise he's good. He's likely deploying in December, so we hope to see him a couple of times before then. How's your son doing?
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Comment by Jaz04 on September 17, 2010 at 3:00pm
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liongirl, I have heard you can go to the gate.
Thanks everyone on the car information. My son will be so happy as he hates the cost of the cab.
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Comment by liongirl3502(ship10Div331) on September 17, 2010 at 1:27pm
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My SR did tell us to meet him at the airport and we could give him his cell phone there but what I want to know is can we only walk with him to the security line or are we allowed to wait with him at the gate, somebody please tell me the gate or I will be heartbtroken!!
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My son was allowed to take his truck down to Gulfport with him after A School. No problem at all. Trust me if he's going to Gulfport, it will be good for him to take it so he can get off base if he wants without taking a cab. There's not a whole lot to do on base really...or places to eat and such. Plus they are so close to the coast...great place to sight see!!
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Does anyone know if students are allowed their vehicles on base after A school? My son wants to take his down there so badly and I am trying to talk him out of it as we know he will be deployed at some point.
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liongirl, you may be able to spend time with your SR at the airport too. So if he is G&G, find out what time they are going to the airport.
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Comment by LynB on September 17, 2010 at 8:04am
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Kelley that's what my son said...I couldn't be there for his PIR but he had a great weekend out and about with his new buddies and mentioned how surprised he was that so many people thanked him for his service etc. Said he figured it would be old hat for people living around RTC!
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liongirl--don't worry about being stuck with nothing to do. Chicago is wonderful. Spend as much time as the Navy allows with your grad, then enjoy the city. We went to the museum of art, the aquarium, the Sears tower, Wrigley field, the Navy Pier . . . People were really nice too, especially when we had our son with us. Jazz players would see him in uniform and change what they were playing to a hymn or a patriotic tune. Total strangers came up to him to shake his hand and thank him for his service. It was really awesome.
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