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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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Comment by Brenda Sue on October 11, 2011 at 7:25pm
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yea - but do they REALLY like Italian food??? you know, I wouldn't want them to be unhappy!!
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Comment by Kimberly on October 11, 2011 at 7:22pm
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Brenda sue my labradoodles are great
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Comment by TXNavyMom on October 11, 2011 at 7:19pm
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Darn Brenda Sue, and I thought about leaving the husband at home and bringing one of my five mini daschunds. They have much better table manners...lol
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Welcome to our new moms! You will LOVE this website if you stay here long! Wonder if ANY of you are interested in joining us for dinner with an Admiral (corpsman) and a few other sailors. When: October 27th at 6:00 pm
Where: Tre Trattoria
Who: ANYone interested (and their spouses, kids, relatives, etc - just no pets please)
Downtown San Antonio
at The Fairmount Hotel
(210) 223-0401
401 S Alamo
San Antonio, TX 78205
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Comment by ProudNavyMom on October 11, 2011 at 5:26pm
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Elaine-PIR 10/1/10 - thanks. yes, when I first posted on N4M several gave me great advice on which groups to join. It has been a great help for me knowing what to expect. I have started writing letters and I can't wait to get his adress to start sending them. Thanks again! I will definitely join the PIR group as soon as I know it.
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Comment by Brenda72 on October 11, 2011 at 2:00pm
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Anybody know anything about planes tickets... I am trying to help my son get tickets from Pensacola to the Houston area as cheaply as possible.
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We went to Wings over FT Worth in March and it was fun...so I think we will go to the one in Dallas ... :)
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Comment by Elaine-PIR 10/1/10 on October 11, 2011 at 10:43am
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bsanford-I checked your profile, you have joined a bunch of good sites for information. Yesterday was a USPS holiday so you will probably get your "kid in a box" today or tomorrow. Start writing letters now. Keep them short but positive. When you recieve the form letter with his address in it put them in envelopes, number them (1,2...) and mail them the next day. They will receive mail everyday as soon as they appoint a mailperson in his division. They will only be allowed to write on Sundays for about 4-5 weeks and then can write more often. I sent letters about 2 times a week. Join your PIR group as soon as you know the date he will graduate.
You are not doing anything different then the rest of us did when our kids went to Boot Camp. Hang in there. We are here for you and please let us know how you, and he, are doing.
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Hi Ladies. My name is Becky. I live in Pearland, Texas (suburb of Houston). My 19 year old son left last Thursday for Boot Camp at Great Lakes. I miss him alot and find myself thinking about him all day long and wondering what is he doing right now. I can't wait until I get his address and can start sending letters and cards.
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Comment by debschnell on October 11, 2011 at 9:44am
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The engine on our main car just recently blew a head gasket and was prohibitively expensive to fix (sob!). We haven't replaced it yet so I will need to rent a car, too. If several of us want to carpool, I'll rent one large enough. I live off I-10 and Voss in Memorial.
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