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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

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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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USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)

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Welcome family and loved ones of sailors serving on USS Kearsarge, homeport Norfolk, VA! Please be sure to review and observe the OPSEC guidelines below to keep our sailors safe :) Introduce yourself and join in the chat! Current group Admin: Marcy ~ Corpsman Mom

Location: Norfolk VA - and everywhere!
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Latest Activity: Oct 19, 2022

USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)

"Reveille to Taps" - This is a very cool three-minute timelapse video of Sailors performing their daily operations onboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge.

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Comment by Carolyn on September 19, 2010 at 11:17pm: My son is a Marine on the Kearsarge. Hope I'm welcome. :) This is his first deployment. Just wondering if someone has any idea how motomail works. I sent him a letter on 9/16 but it still shows to be in stage 1 status. Is it usual for a letter to be in stage 1 for 4 days? Is there some way to find out if he really got it and just the status is wrong?

Comment by Brenda(MomofTravis) on September 19, 2010 at 1:15pm: Thanks Elizabeth :) I've no response to emails on my side yet. I'm assuming they are still in River City.

Comment by Brenda(MomofTravis) on September 18, 2010 at 6:55pm: Elizabeth(MomofJosh) oh it wasn't your post. It was information read elsewhere. Thanks to all who answered questions about River CIty, we're a little less freaked out and more at ease now.

Comment by embarkguru on September 18, 2010 at 6:18pm: Cindy, River City is not a location but is a operational term. Basically, the ship has restricted a certain percentage of the communications that leave the ship. The crew can still receive email, they just can not send anything. The length of River City is NEVER the same. Sometimes a day; sometimes a week.

Comment by embarkguru on September 18, 2010 at 6:01pm: Sissi, you are correct about the small pox. They limit exposure because they are vaccinated with a live virus. Still nasty stuff. The other wonderful one that they get is anthrax. According to my husband, this is the worst one yet. He's had anthrax vaccination before but for some reason this one just made him sick.

Comment by embarkguru on September 18, 2010 at 4:57pm: Cheryl, they will probably do every thing on the ship.

Comment by Lori on September 18, 2010 at 4:42pm: It means that e-mail is down for a liitle while, the ship will get e-mails but can't send them out. Keep e-mailing them.

Comment by Brenda(MomofTravis) on September 18, 2010 at 3:21pm: This is all new to me, FB says the ship is in River City. We're worried sick here not knowing exactly what it means.

Comment by DCT MOM on September 17, 2010 at 11:28pm: NavyMom glad to hear that you heard from your son, i still havent heard from Dustin.

Comment by jkl2z7 on September 17, 2010 at 10:54pm: Lori. I hope everything is ok with your grandson. I will be praying for him. Also,sorry about your son's friend. I will be praying for your son and his friends family. I know how upset he must be to be so far away at a time like this. I know my son would want to know. NavyMom I am so glad that you finally got to hear from your son. It is great ain't it. Well. ladies have a great weekend.