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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 Matt's Mom/Cathy on June 20, 2011 at 7:29pm
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Donna we want the rain too so send it our way if you see it. Matt is coming home on leave this Saturday and the only thing he wants while he is here is to see the sunshine and do anything outdoors he said. Where he is stationed they have a lot of rain and very little sunshine.
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teach2 we took our son his car while he was in A school in Pensacola. I don't know if the rules are different depending on what base they are on but for him the car either had to be in his name or if not then he had to have a letter from the owner stating it was okay for him to have the car in Pensacola, proof of insurance and the most recent registration receipt. It will also depend on what phase your daughter is in. Hope this helps.
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Comment by teach2(ship 11 div 200) on June 20, 2011 at 5:01pm
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Loved, loved the pie recipe!!
Do any of you wonderful ladies know anything about bringing a vehicle to your sailor while in A School? My dot is in SA for corpsman training and we could drive from Arlington to bring her truck to her, but wonder if it's okay and what the rules regarding it are. Any help would be appreciated.
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Comment by Alysia-Redsmom (VQ-4/ATO) on June 20, 2011 at 9:36am
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Good Moday morning Texas Ladies ~
Continued prayers needed...rain in the near forecast up to 50% ~ AMEN to that!!
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TGIF ~ itz RED FRIDAY Texas Ladies & my Sailor is coming Home :-)
Bravo Zulu to all the new sailors who will graduate today!!
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Comment by USNavyMom (USS Essex) on June 16, 2011 at 10:53pm
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Thanks teach2. I'm ok now. I got a call from his recruiter today with the address... it gave me such peace of mind. I don't know why.. but it did. I still get teary eyed every once in awhile, but I'm definitely bettter than the past 2 days! He was laughing because when he gave me the address I told him "I totally LOVE you now!" :D
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Wow! You are all so right!
USNavy Mom- you sound so much like me. I cried for the weeks before my dot left and then two weeks after. If it makes you feel any better- I don't cry every day now (wink) Hang in there. It's so hard, but you will make it, and you'll have a stronger relationship.
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Comment by mumziepooh on June 16, 2011 at 12:01pm
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woohoo Justa - that is a great surprise! Have a wonderful time with your son! Make sure to meet him at the airport - he may leave the barracks at 2am but the flight won't leave that early - go hang with him at the airport - you will meet guys he spent BC with - hear stories - it is worth it!!!
USNavy - this is a really hard time for you. It is the plight of all moms - we work ourselves out of a job. We care for them and teach them and love on them all knowing that one day they will walk out that door and BAM - it is over. It will never be the same. It is a very difficult time in the life of a mom and I really hope you have a few friends, a church family, a real family, that you can lean on. It is soon going to be time to work on YOU.
2011 has turned out to be a year of transition for us around here! My son graduated from college and moved home for his DEP time and left in February. I have only seen him at his PIR for a few hours and the airport for a few more. I am so excited to see him next week!!!!! Then my daughter graduated from college and is about to move to Washington DC. Sigh. One more at home - she is a senior in hs. No matter how hard I try, time marches on.
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Happy Thursday Texas Ladies....
USNavemom - yay for the phone call and that he arrived safely in Chi-town.
Justatexan - whoohoo for PIR...it's an amazing exeperience! Don't forget the tissue :-)
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Comment by Brenda Sue on June 16, 2011 at 12:03am
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WOW!! Congrats!! PIR is still worth it! You know you can go to the airport and see him off! I bet you are wanting to run home and get things ready for him there!
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