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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
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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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Comment by jacketfan24 (corpsman mom) on January 7, 2012 at 7:45pm
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I wasn't able to go myself but a lot of people I know did...there was a huge show of support for the family.
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Comment by Sue(Daniel's Mom) on January 7, 2012 at 1:17pm
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Our prayers are with this family and I wish I could be there to show support.
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DescriptionThe Funeral for Justin Whitmire, the Army Medic who was killed in Afghanistan, will be this Saturday January 7th. To show our support we would like as many people as possible to line main street Simpsonville and Fountain Inn with American flags, as they travel from Simps...onville First Baptist to Cannon's Cemetery. We will line up approx. 1:30. For further Details call Scott Reid: (864) 449-7989These are the Approved parking Locations: Discover Church Old Hart Graphics Building (beside Discover) Heritage Park Danny's Muffler Shop Bethlehem Baptist Church (grass in front) Bi-Lo (Ftn Inn)Please join us as we show our support to Justin, his family, our troops and our country. Anyone wishing to send cards, flowers, etc. can send to Faith Renewed Outreach Church 505 S Main Street Mauldin 29662. Att: Whitmire Family
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Comment by StarChild (Ship9 Div007) on January 5, 2012 at 10:22pm
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After serious & cautious consideration... Your contract of friendship has been renewed for the New Year 2012
It was a very hard decision to make... So try not to mess it up!!!
My Wish for You in 2012
May peace break into your home and may thieves come to steal your debts.
May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills.
May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips!
May happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy
May the problems you had, forget your home address!
In simple words .
May 2012 be the best year of your life!!!
Happy New Year!! Love My SC Navy Sisters!
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Happy New Year Sisters. I hope all had a wonderful holiday season. Louis is here now and we had a wonderful Christmas Dec. 27th when he arrived home. When he leaves next week, he won't be back on land until May. Looks like I will be taking a road trip in May. He talked to me about his 'girlfriend'. For years he has told me that they are 'just friends'. Now they are talking about getting married and having children. He wants to give it 2 years before he marries but he is looking for a place in Norfolk so I CAN COME AND HELP TAKE CARE OF THE BABY!!!!! He does not want to leave me in Columbia. PLEASE LEAVE ME!
Susan so glad to hear from you. Take care.
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Thanks everyone! He is going to start going to study groups next week, but he has been studying non stop since he started. He says that some of the ones that actually go out and get drunk on weekends (they are of age) are doing better and they are studying much less. He doesn't go out at all. Maybe he's studying too much! He knows the material and is active in class.
It was really hard to let him go this time, but I'm okay now. His roommate will not be back until Sunday, so he's alone there.
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Comment by MONICA on December 30, 2011 at 10:04am
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jacketfan24- There are study groups to help them out and I think that they do go in order from the highest grades and they get to choose first what they would like to do from what is on the list. The navy has a list of what is needed and they get to choose from that. Tell your son to hang in there. I'm sure he will do fine. My thoughts are with you today while you send your son back.
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Comment by Tamme on December 29, 2011 at 5:45pm
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He's probably referring to FMTB with the Marines. On the grades, they should be also offering study groups which also consists of tutoring. If I remember right, my son found the beginning harder so hopefully he will see his grades improve. I'll ask my son tonight but I don't think his grades will effect FMTB. More so they would if he was looking to go to C school or other base of choice.
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Hello everyone! My son has been home for the last two weeks and it has been wonderful; he leaves in the morning to go back to San Antonio. I have to drive him to Charlotte since it was cheaper to fly from there than Greenville/Spartanburg; the flight is at 7am.
Monica and Susan...I have a question about corpsman school. My son is not getting the grades he wants and his are actually better than most of the sailors in his unit. He is studying like crazy and knows the material, but is just not doing well on the tests. He is passing them, but he REALLY wants the marine school next (I forget what the initials are). He says the other instructor of the other unit tells them what to study for the tests, so they are all scoring really high. His instructor doesn't do that, so he is studying everything. Is this normal or is he doing something wrong? He's only had two tests; they started classes two weeks before they shut down for Christmas. He is getting frustrated at the test scores not reflecting what he's learned.
Hope everyone had a great Christmas and will have a wonderful New Year. Susan, it is great to see you back and I hope you continue to recover.
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Susan/Corpsman Mom- I'm a Corpsman mom also. Do you live in Columbia? If so we don't live to far apart. I live in Jefferson(near Pageland). Hope you get better soon!
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