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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
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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 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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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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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Comment by DCT MOM on August 13, 2010 at 9:09pm
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can some one explain this to me. are they out for the 7 months now or will they be coming back next month? I only got to talk to Dustin and he said he wasnt coming home and he said something about us coming to see him. But maybe for a few hrs. and then he tried to get ahold of me yesterday and i missed his call i was at work.so i reallly dont know what is happening!!
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Comment by decorusXdea on August 12, 2010 at 10:28pm
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Oh okay, as a wife I'm just oober conscious of it since my husband is on the security force and none of us have heard about the press release, lol do you have a link for it?
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it's okay just letting you know, cause I know of ships that have lost ALL internet privileges for a month while deployed because of OPSEC being breached. And I know all of us want to be able to hear from our Sailors as much as we can while they're gone.
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@ precillaz just as a friendly reminder, ship activity that is in the future or current cannot be posted online, until it has already happened so until it can be said in a past tense you can't post it. Just OPSEC rules
But yes the news is bad and its really hard on all of us especially with young children, just hopefully this goes by fast! Cause I know my son being 7 months old gets used to my husband just as he's about to leave again, I'm just worried of when they return how he'll take to him again.
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With PPV, if you are gone longer than 60 days I think you have to move out
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Yeah I lived in Oceanview right next to gate 3 of Little Creek Base, not a good area at all =[
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I used the word "ghetto" cause it was. I'd walk down the street and I'd see a 4 yr old chasing a 2 yr old with a broom handle and adults in the parking lot encouraging it along with smoking joints and drinking 40s. It was bad, after seeing that my husband wouldn't let me walk to the store by myself, also once 7pm rolled around you'd literally see hookers on the street corners. To me it was easier using the word ghetto than typing all of that out.
There was no office to go to for the place we rented out. The "company" consisted of a retired Navy officer and his wife and son and the only POC address we had was a PO Box. We didn't have a working AC unit for the first month we lived there, our fridge the entire time we lived there would fill with ice in the fridge part and we could never get someone out to fix it, he'd say he'd call his repair man but he'd never come than we'd see him at another on of the apartments and mention it and he said the landlord never told him.
I highly recommend Virginia Beach, the neighborhood I'm in now is quiet and the schools are great.
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Oh and also Portsmouth is pretty bad too
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@ Cheryl,
Avoid Oceanview in Norfolk, and Breezy Point Apts in Norfolk.
I used to live in Oceanview, ghetto as hell and the landlord we had only cared about money not about if the fridge was building up ice in the veggie draws or anything.
Breezy Point Apts seems nice on paper, minutes from the base's gates, is a gated community with pool and tennis courts but the apartments are run down and are infested with bugs.
Also though Hampton is nice, its a decent drive to work and you always have to use the tunnel and the traffic can be horrendous.
We live in Virginia Beach now and love it even though we have a decent commute (about 45 min to an hour to the ship)
I don't know anything about Chesapeake but do know to stay far far away from Newport News, it's rather bad from what I've heard, like you can't walk down any street at night bad.
Hope that helped, if you have any more questions feel free to send me a message =D
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Comment by Lori on August 8, 2010 at 1:15pm
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Hi All my son just join the ship a week ago. I'm looking forward to chating with all of you. I am still wating on e-mail address for him. We live in Tampa Fl so we don;t see him that much:( do miss him alot. I'm hoping to come to the base next month I will look forward to seeing him.
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