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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.
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Navy Speak
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Comment by CDMom on December 11, 2011 at 6:20pm
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I so get missing our service men during the Holidays. I was really emotional yesterday for some reason. This is the first time he has ever been away fron hone for all three holidays; Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years.
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Comment by Brenda Sue on December 11, 2011 at 10:38am
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Thank you everyone for your kind words. After I posted it - I almost deleted it - because I don't like "Debbie Downers". But at this time of the year, I get really down. Not sure why - I get two weeks off from work (I teach). Friday evening and yesterday, I completed almost all my Christmas shopping. Today, I am going to wrap and get ready to mail a box to my sailor.
I'm headed to church this morning - and our Christmas program is tonight. I do have lots to be thankful for!
Again, to all thank you!!
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Comment by navymom12592 on December 11, 2011 at 7:38am
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I am making a mum to wear at my sons PIR. I found some beautiful ribbons. Im excited. 5 days and counting. I haven't held my son in 3 months.
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Comment by jean on December 10, 2011 at 11:46pm
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thank you Brenda Sue for your timeline of your Sailor
it helps with the rest of us whose sailors will not be home on Christmas Day.
thoughts and prayers for your sailor and you Brenda Sue
Thanks
Jean
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Comment by debschnell on December 10, 2011 at 11:37am
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Brenda Sue --- You're a good inspiration for being brave and devoted. Another inspiration which might help others: The mothers in my family have sent their sons to every war our country has been involved in back to the Revolutionary War. It helps me to think of these women and their sacrifices and bravery whenever I feel blue. My own mother sent 2 sons to WWII and one to Korea. You brave Navy mothers also inspire me, and it's wonderful that we can all lean on one another.
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Sorry, ladies - this is my FIFTH year WITHOUT my Sailor!!
2007 - boot camp
2008 - he came home about Dec. 30 (I put the tree up on Dec. 25)
2009 and 2010 - deployed
2011 - he came home for Thanksgiving - so that was good.
2012 - he will be out of the Navy!!!
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Comment by txsailorsam-Donna on December 10, 2011 at 8:51am
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I do stiill have the reason we celebrate... Nothing or no one can take that away. Happy Birthday, Jesus.
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This will be the first year without my sailor. It will also be the first year my other two boys will be gone. No grandson either. It will be...
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CDMom, a big Texas howdy and welcome to you and your sailor!
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quiltblue, that is a fabulous door hanging. Just might try to make one myself if you don't mind. My sailor won't be home for Christmas which is really hurting my heart. This is the first time ever without him.
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