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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:
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 sjr23 on July 21, 2010 at 11:43am
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You'll get a form letter in about two weeks (from when they leave). It will have the address that your child will have written in the available blanks. Ours also had the date of his PIR/graduation and about three sentences written by him about how he was doing. After we got that form letter is when we began the letter blitz.
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Comment by Maureen62 Proudmomofasailor on July 21, 2010 at 11:24am
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Lynn....called Davids recruiter and got it from him . Have you tried that yet ? You gotta be forceful sometimes, they dont rush to give us mama bears info
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Comment by Lynn Ship 09 Div 303 PIR 9-10 on July 20, 2010 at 11:28pm
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Maureen - where did you see address and PIR date at? I cannot make anything of the address on the box except Great Lakes, IL. Was that info on the label where the return address is at?
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Received Davids " Box" today as well as his address and PIR, which will be 9/10/10....and surprisingly no tears lol
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Comment by Trace's Mom on July 20, 2010 at 12:10am
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Maureen, The Albany is now a submarine. Guess this is a "small world" moment. My son just past his 4 yr mark and I'm sure it was just yesterday that he left for boot. It does get easier, but I still miss him every single day. We were all so naive in the beginning because we had never had a close family member in the navy. Neither of us knew what to expect. It was awful. But we got through the worst of it, and I am so very proud of him and my other non-military sons.
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I wont send any pictures or anything embarrasing lol. Nicola...my step son is an AM....My hubby is a retired AS ( Aviation Ground Support). I think thats so sweet that your son left a I love you background on his phone. Im starting a writing campaign trust me, he may get more mail then he wants lol.
Wanda....I think thats great. He found his calling and is where he should be. My sons plan is to be a Corpsman, go to college and get his psychology degree and then change to officer. Thats the plan at this moment, could change I suppose.
No Traces Mom I dont but whats funny...is that my Dad was aboard a USS Albany in WWII but then it was a battleship...is it still ?
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Does anyone else here happen to be going to the homecoming for the USS Albany?
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Morning everyone ! Hope all had a nice weekend.
Cathy and Rebecca...thanks so much for your thoughts and prayers. That means a lot. Im just taking this roller coaster ride one day at a time.
Cathy...your two sons are Corpsmen ? Thats what my son also went in as.
Rebecca and Cathy...where are your children at , at this stage ? In the fleet already ?
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Hello All
Just popping in to say hello and thank you all for your thoughts and prayers...its been a very very rough couple of days but with each day, I think it will get easier. ( Until his box arrives lol)....Ive been writing him letters so that I can mail them out. I am actually starting to look forward to graduation already !
Will check in tomorrow all, take care and have a great day !!
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Well....yesterday I took my son down to his recruiters office...then they checked him into a hotel. Off to MEPS in a little while to watch him swear in and then off he goes to BC.....was a hard day yesterday and I know emotionally it will be today as well. Hopefully I will not cry in front of him !! Gheesh they ask a lot of us moms sometimes lol. Here is my son yesterday with his recruiter. Pls keep David in your thoughts and prayers as he begins this journey !!
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