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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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Moms of Faith
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Navy Moms sharing their faith and prayers in support of our Sailors.
Members: 203
Latest Activity: Jan 23
Discussion Forum
Prayers needed Please
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Local Churches - Norfolk, VA
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Surgery prayer needed
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Comment by Rhonda8881 on July 3, 2010 at 2:02pm
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Will do Proud.Mom.
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Yes, Yolanda, this is his first deployment. He has been out in the past, but on short trips.
I hope you hear from you sailor soon.
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Wishing everyone a Happy and Safe July 4th Holiday weekend.
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Hello fellow "Moms of Faith". My sailor is now on deployment. He is on a fast attack submarine for a 6 month deployment. I will be able to send him emails, which he may receive at some point during this deployment, but there is no guarantee when he will receive them. Navy business comes first, so family emails have to wait until there is a place for them in the communication pipeline. With 150 +/- on the sub, that is a lot of emails.
Please continue to pray for the USS Olympia and the loved ones left behind while we patiently(?) wait for communication from them when they do reach a port. (It could be as long as 3 months, maybe more).
ProudMom........My son's division sent a recruit home 3 days before graduation. He was caught fraternizing with a female recruit for the 3rd time (according to what I was told!). I can't imagine spending 7-1/2 weeks in boot camp and then throwing it all away. I can only guess that he really did not want to be a Sailor!
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Comment by TxNukeMom on June 22, 2010 at 11:52am
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ProudMom, my son's division started with over 80 recruits and ended up graduating around 55. The problems ones will be dealt with. The RDC's have a knack in knowing who they are! LOL May God be with them, and they'll be in my prayers, as will all the recruits. Going through those 8 weeks of bootcamp was my son's worst nightmare!
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ProudMom, those 10 will either shape up or be shipped out. Don't know which would be better for them, but it will happen.
I will pray for them as well as all sailors and military members of this great country.
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Hello everyone! Just found this group!!! So excited! My son starts A school tomorrow at Goose Creek. He PIR'd 05/27/10. We also went to the Catholic service that last weekend and sat up in the balcony. Really nice Mass! Now he's attending the Mass at Goose Creek and they just asked him to help count the collections after Mass. Any other Catholic moms with kids at Goose Creek???
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Comment by KLMkathy on June 18, 2010 at 10:38pm
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Hello, I just joined this group and I am so thankful that I found it. My son enlisted in May and is a depper until October. We are catholic and as soon as I opened this site and saw the metal of St. Michael I knew I was in the right place. St Michael is my son's patron saint and his middle name. To say I got chills is an understatement. I will be honored to pray for our wonderful children who are serving our country. I just told my son about the prayer huddles and he thought that was great. Bless you all. Kathy
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Comment by Mermaid on June 18, 2010 at 4:01am
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When they are first deployed is a very hard time for Moms/Grandmas~~ lots of tears. This is the place to come for support. People don`t understand what it feels like unless they have a loved one of their own deployed. I know I never understood until my grandson was deployed to Iraq. Prayers for our servicemen and women.
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Please keep the sailors of the USS Olympia in your prayers for Protection and Safe Travels as they are being deployed sometime soon. It is my son's first deployment and Mom is already missing the conversations we have. I know God will be there with them wherever they go. I am hoping a few of His Angels will be following me also, so I don't cry on everyone I see!!!
May all our military members and their families receive the Blessings and Love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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