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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
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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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Graduates PIR 08/19/11 TG 40
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Latest Activity: Feb 27, 2018
Discussion Forum
Encouragement Questionnaire
Started by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons. Last reply by Charlie Feb 27, 2018. 10 Replies 26 Likes
Places to Eat in Great Lakes
Started by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW. Last reply by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW Aug 19, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 10, DIV 267 Navy Mom
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Ship 10 Div 266
Started by Pmbell 02 (SHIP 10 DIV 266). Last reply by momma'o~32020 Aug 17, 2011. 62 Replies 0 Likes
Reading Material for FUN! Navy Basic Acronyms, Laughs for the Hard Days and Top Ten Lines Home From Boot Camp...
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Comment by BtownSandy on August 20, 2011 at 2:35pm
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exactly about the backpacks. My daughter has a 17 inch laptop which is ginormous and it fit in the backpack along with a bunch of other stuff.
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Comment by Momof3kidz(IT) on August 20, 2011 at 11:19am
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Dianne, the issued back packs are huge. No need for future parents to purchase to back packs for their recruits.
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Comment by diannep on August 20, 2011 at 10:50am
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CarolP: Some parents do attend A School grad, but at my son's, no one did and the one he observed before, no one did. But he had a "short" A School...just a couple of months...maybe that makes a difference. Families are welcome to attend though!
Your sailor will find out about making "leave" flight arrangements when he arrives at A School. I'm assuming that he won't have started classes yet in Sept? When they finish A School, the Navy will book their flights for them...but the Navy only pays for the portion from A School to duty station. Sailor must pay the difference in the ticket because of home leave. All of this is explained to them at A School. I wasn't involved in my son's at all.
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Comment by LeahScottsdale on August 20, 2011 at 10:43am
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Never mind..just read your older post
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We circled too and ended up in some parking lot who knows where. My husband spilled coffee on our sons hat and already had to go back to the base and buy him another. Luckily hes back with a new one. Flight just got cancelled!!!!!!!
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Comment by CarolP on August 20, 2011 at 9:46am
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Ours is too. Trying to park right now. It's awful. Hubby.is going to drop us off and park. We've been circling.
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Icarol we at ohare and our son is on a 2;00 flight to pensacola.
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Thank you fireteamleaderwife. I'll check the site out. We are going to the airport to spend time with our son. He's only been calling since 5 am. I'm already getting upset at the thought of leaving him again...
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Comment by Pmbell 02 (SHIP 10 DIV 266) on August 20, 2011 at 8:50am
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Heading to the airport to spend some time with my son. He's heading to Mississippi. so glad I'm able to see him but I miss him already! I am so thankful for this site and so grateful for all the wonderful friends I've met on here.
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Picked up my SA at the base this morning at 6 am. Spending the day at WalMart and Navy Pier. After she gets out of the shower of course!
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