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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.
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 Tamme on February 14, 2011 at 4:36pm
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It's fantastic he will be close to home for three years.
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I figured there were a lot in that field. It totally a new interest to him so I am going to be curious to see if he likes it. Going from wanting to do Marine Biology in the Coast Guard to EM in the Navy is far apart. It will be very interesting to see where he gets stationed. He said he didn't want a aircraft carrier because it is extremeley noisy. What will he be doing here in Charleston?
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Where is your EM stationed? I know so little about the job. He just started A-school.
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Comment by CC0727 on February 14, 2011 at 2:31pm
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2byzmom - yes, i am glad they will be close too. i live about 9-11 hours away from where they will be, but i am happy with the same coast. they are my onlys, so while i know that they will at some point go to other places much farther away, for me and my apron strings this is a good transition. LOL : )
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BobstersMom - Have a great trip! PIR is amazing!! : )
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Hi 2byzmom! Same boat here (no pun intended LOL). My Sailors are twins and are just finishing up A school last week & this week. They enlisted together and went through boot camp and A school together and now will be going their separate ways for their stations. They were hoping to go to the same place, but due to timing and what billets were available when, one will be in Georgia and the other in South Carolina. Still close enough for a visit though, so it is ok. The mom in me still wishes they were together though. : )
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Comment by Terri,Bobster's Mom (AWF FTS) on February 14, 2011 at 11:45am
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Four more days ladies and I will be seeing my sailor! He called twice last night to tell me what to bring. He may be a GradNGo and won't know for sure until the Wed. He said he didn't know if he would be able to call home to tell me, so I'm won't really know how to pack.
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They enlisted about a year and half apart. They both wanted Coast Guard but the first one decided go to ahead with the Navy and the other tried to wait it out. The Coast Guard was just not hiring yet. I preferred the timing of the second one because he was 20 instead of 18 years old. What is MC?
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Welcome 2byzmom. I have twins in the Navy. One a Corpsman who graduated September 11, 2009 and an EM who graduated January 14 and is at A-school in GL. There is another mom who has joined this group recently as well with twins in the Navy, both Master of Arms.
Awesome picture Cindy.
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Thanks to all of you! I am still smiling BIG this morning. Yep, got the lint brush packed! I think there is suppose to be a warming trend next week. All the way into the 30s. :-)
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