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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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- Graduation Info
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Comment by all5roc on February 8, 2012 at 4:47pm
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Hi Sancy, so far no letter to confirm, but ship11,div 102 may have PIR 3/30. We will be going!! I know where you are at, I have an older son that lives in New Braunfels. He has friends from Dripping Springs. We are in Rockwall/Rowlett, east of Dallas.
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Comment by lala 4 on February 8, 2012 at 4:26pm
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I have been doing so good lately about not thinking of my SR every minute of every day, but the past couple of days have been a little harder. He has been gone 3 weeks. I have had some letters and I got to see a pic on facebook, but that excitement has worn off and I need to be re-charged. Like some of the other parents mentioned, this is not his first time to leave home but it's the only time that my ability to communicate with him has been so limited. So thankful for this website so I can talk to people that understand.
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Comment by Sancy on February 8, 2012 at 2:59pm
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Hi Texas Moms!!! I am just west of Austin in Dripping Springs. My son graduates 3/30. Are there any other families traveling up there at that time?
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Comment by LilBigMansMom/Ship11/Div101 on February 7, 2012 at 7:12pm
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That would be Great!!!
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Comment by deanna on February 7, 2012 at 1:27pm
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I will start trying to write down all of the moms out here so we can contact each other for a future dinner in Midland or Odessa!
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I would love to meet with some other moms in my area!
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Comment by Jess' Proud Mom on February 7, 2012 at 11:29am
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My son graduates on 3-2!! I am so excited!!! He is in the 07/080.
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Comment by Cece on February 7, 2012 at 1:14am
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We enjoyed the Navy Pier and the Sears Tower. We also spent time at that outlet mall. We just parked downtown and took a little trolley to places because of congestion---they were having a parade!. It was the week before Thanksgiving.
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Comment by Rhonda on February 7, 2012 at 1:04am
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We enjoyed the Navy Peir & spent the whole day there because there is so much to see. My son graduatged in the sumer so we were able to go to 6 flags as well while we were there. Also we went to the movies. Everyone in there had just graduated LOL It was great. Take lots of tissues & enjoy your time no matter what you wind up doing!!
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Comment by debschnell on February 6, 2012 at 11:12pm
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Re Waukegan --- Some good tips have been offered. I will add that we travel with our Chihuahua, and have to stay where she is welcome. We stayed at the Motel Six, and it was quite reasonable, clean, and very convenient. Our sailor just wanted to hang out with us. You might consider taking a laptop if you have one. Our guy asked for computer time and shorts and shirt to sit around the room in. We did a lot of driving and sightseeing, which gave us a terrific chance to visit in private. Also toured the industry and science museum which was wonderful. Our boy said he'd do the serious sightseeing later because he was doing additional training there.
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