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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
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- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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Comment by Alysia-Redsmom (VQ-4/ATO) on January 17, 2012 at 2:05pm
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Good Afternoon everyone!
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Comment by Pearl Harbor MA on January 16, 2012 at 5:03pm
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The waiting seems easier once the letters start coming.We were very blessed and got the one short "I'm here " call but then we got 4 long calls over the course of the next 6 weeks.They were probably 30 minutes or longer.That is NOT the norm. They had a guy kind of freak out and eventually got sent home so they all got to call home the very first Saturday morning that they were there.Then toward the end you DON'T want any calls because that usually means they failed something and may not make PIR!!!
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Comment by bpa1955 on January 16, 2012 at 2:25pm
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Call your kids recruiter, he should be able to give you ship and division.. Mine did. Now I have heard that it is subject to change, but for now it works. I haven't got a form letter yet and hoping it will be this week. Can't wait for the real letters and phone calls. It is so great to know we all understand what the other one is going through. Thanks for the support!
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Comment by Brenda Sue on January 16, 2012 at 10:52am
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Welcome Ladies!! I hate to tell you but the waiting only gets worse! My son is on his fifth and last year - fourth deployment right now! He is still waiting to get his box I mailed him for Christmas - I mailed it Dec. 13 and he was only in Virginia at the time.
Suggestion - start writing letters - number them so he will know what order to open them and read them. Send pictures printed on paper - not actual photos. Copy cartoons and send those. Just anything to connect him to home.
Learn to shower with your phone! I still do and I know he doesn't call while deployed - but just in case!
Again, Welcome!! Check out Molly's Adopt a Sailor group for something else to keep you occupied while he is gone!
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Comment by lesliet--son came home:( on January 16, 2012 at 10:40am
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Hi Gavinsmom, no nothing yet:-( I was hoping to get it already. I sure hope it's there Tuesday. The waiting is terrible!!
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Comment by gavinsmom68ship07 div080 on January 16, 2012 at 8:49am
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Hi lesliet. Any word yet on his division? I hope to get the letter in the mail Tuesday!
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Comment by Rhonda on January 15, 2012 at 1:34pm
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Welcome Ladies!!!! Ask any question you may have because someone here will have the anwser or know how to find it!!
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Hello Gavinsmom! My son left Jan 9th, from Dallas, as well & is going Into the nuke program too. I agree this site had been great! I have gained so much in just a couple of days just being on this site!
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Hello, new to this site. My son left for boot camp on January 9th from Houston. He is going into the nuke program. I've recieved the box but still waiting for the form letter. thankful for the information about boot camp I've found here.
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Thank you. Who is he? I'm sorry I haven't had time to read enough to know who he is. I received the box, & yes it was hard seeing all his stuff that has been him up til then! I know all this is good for him & is for his good. I am so proud of him!:-) I look forward to getting the letter, I was hoping it would be here today causeail won't run again til Tuesday:-(
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