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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.
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:
**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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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As we get closer to homecoming please remember OPSEC. Dates are never to be posted anywhere online until that information is officially released by the ship. This could effect their homecoming date and make them stay out longer. Please remove that post so this doesn't happen and be extra vigilant to keep this information confidential. We need to do our part to keep our sailors safe until their return!
Got a call from my son (finally) on Saturday so now we're sure he made it to the Makin Island with no problems. Of course, not speaking to him over the Christmas holiday was really nerve wracking for us, but now we are relieved. Whew...
Anyone have any ideas how long it normally takes for mail to get there? Just curious... Thank you.
My son just left last weekend for the USS Makin Island. Will be looking through the past posts to see if there is information on what to expect as a parent while he is there. Merry Christmas to everyone!!!
I am one of the moderators for the MKI parents group on face book. After we left Hong Kong the group page was being overwhelmed with strange requests to join.
If anyone on this site is a parent with a child on the MKI and wants to join the group please private message me and I will help you get onto the group. If you do request PLEASE remind me that you are a member on this site .
I'm already on the secret group. I was just hoping there was another group here. Sometimes the posts they make frustrate me.
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