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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:
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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Love to hear from from anyone in the area! We need to support one another & share our experiences
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Would like the address so I can send my son a card before three weeks.
Started by Regina-ship11Div049. Last reply by Pam Nov 12, 2012. 2 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by eljac913 (Ship 12 Div 053) on August 15, 2013 at 6:03pm
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Hi Linda...I work in Dunedin currently and would love to meet you also. I sent you a friend request. So your son just graduated from Boot Camp in July? My son went in Dec 2011 and is in Jacksonville currently. I am originally from Boston. Luckily I get to see my son more often than most people because he is 4 hours away.
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Comment by navymom2013 on August 15, 2013 at 8:34am
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Hi eljac913 - My name is Linda and I live in Dunedin - not far from Palm Harbor.
I too have items for donating and I have a pick up truck and would love to meet you. Have you met Dana yet. I went to one of Molly's Adopt a Sailor get togethers and these are some real nice hardworking people that are sending the sailors that are out there in the middle of no where cool things that they can use.
If you want to friend me - I am not too good at this one - then I can talk to you privately and maybe we can get together. My son is in sub school in Groton, Ct.
I now hear from him that he may be going into Navigation but his school is going to be about 9 more months - He will be coming home for Christmas - this will be the first I have seen him since his PIR 7/12/13. He likes Groton. He says he needs his car so he can move around and see the sights (NY and Boston) and his biggest wish is to have a kitchen in his room. His microwave is broken and he has to eat their food. He is kind of picky and drinks alot of protien shakes and vegetables to maintain his body weight and he can't get comfortable yet with his food. He used to be 260 in high school and now he is 160 lbs. He doesn't eat alot of red meat - no pork, no pizza -- la de da.. I have problems with feeding him when he comes home to visit me but you have to admire his strong will in this regard. I am overweight and it is not as easy as it looks to lose it.
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Hi everyone, I would love to attend an event for supporting the troops. I live in Palm Harbor and would love to meet other families with a loved one serving. I have already started to collect items for donating.
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Comment by Michelle_TJsMom on August 14, 2013 at 9:02pm
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Hello everyone! Just joined the group. My son is in bootcamp currently set to PIR on 9/20. We live in Wesley Chapel. So glad I found a place to connect with local families. I have met some wonderful friends already on other boards from the area as well.
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Comment by Mom from St Pete on July 24, 2013 at 9:13pm
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I had such a wonderful time in Hawaii visiting my son.... Wish I could have stayed in paradise with him :) Hawaii is beautiful so glad I got the chance to visit. Thanks to my great son being in the Navy!
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Comment by Dana on July 22, 2013 at 7:22pm
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Hi Karen. We're sorry too. I'll continue to post anytime there's an event. Seems like I'm getting a lot of calls lately to support the troops. Yippee!!!! Keep an eye on Molly's Adopt a Sailor here on Navy for Moms and also Facebook if you are on it. Thanks and hope to see you soon.
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It's a community gathering where people donate care package items, raffles go on, there's going to be music at this one and Molly's will be set up under a canopy. Look for the Molly's Adopt a Sailor tent and you'll find me there. If you bring care package items, you receive a ticket for the chance drawings. You may ABSOLUTELY bring your family and friends. It'll be a good time. The real work is after when we pack up the APO/FPO boxes and ship to our adoptees. We're shipping to the USS Stockdale. Here's the link: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/mollysadoptasailorproject then join the group. Once you join the group, you can get to the monthly adoptions. Here's this month: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/mollysadoptasailorproject/forum/to...
It will be great to meet you!
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Wow - that was fast- I am not sure what we are talking about here but I will try to be there to see this. I will be with my husband if that is OK? Thanks for the invite, I hope I will see you there.
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Hi Navymom2013. You are in luck! We have an event in Largo happening tomorrow from 2-5:00 p.m. I will be there with another Navy mom who are members of Molly's Adopt a Sailor group on Navy For Moms. Check out this month's adoption and there is a link to the event. Or, https://www.facebook.com/events/512736298780097/?ref=22. It's going to be held 13819 Walsingham Road Suite 150, Largo, Florida 33774.
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Hi! Tampa Bay Area Moms - I live in Dunedin, Fl. My son is in Groton Sub School. Just completed boot camp GL
I would love to attend and/or help out with setting up the next packing party or any other get-together.
I don't do facebook or twitter but I am a member of this group so I will keep checking on a regular basis to find out what is going on.
See Ya!!!
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