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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.
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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ne I am new to all of this and would like some help please :) so my husband is currently in A school in San antonio and recieved preorders for FMF in 29 palms Cali and I am hoping those orders change…Continue
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Best Mother's Day Gift ever!!! My son facetimed me with the news he earned his FMF pin - pinning ceremony was yesterday afternoon. Pride x infinity!! So happy for him! Navajosunshine - you'll be getting the same news before you know it!!! Good luck to your corpsman!
Hi Tiffany110491 and chunkypr5,
My son graduated from FTMB at Camp Pendleton this past March and is currently on his first deployment (he left last month). Since deployed, he's been working his eligibility of an FMF pin. I'm proud of him and all the hard work he's done and is still doing.
So did you get to attend your son's April 15 graduation, chunkypr5? Hope you enjoyed it and took lots of pictures.
Tiffany110491, I've just driven through 29 Palms and the town looks like it has good places to use - restaurants, stores, gas stations, and I'm sure more. But I'm sure during the summer time it is exceptionally hot. Overall I'm sure it will be good, and you'll be right there with your husband :)
hello there, my son is in basic training right now and if all goes well graduate April 15th, he will be becoming a hospital corpsman.
Welcome sockmonkey!
Hi there! I'm new to this group. My corpsman son is at 29 Palms with the 2/7. He has a horrible time receiving mail. We've used his base address, his buddy let him borrow the PO box, and no matter what, it takes 2 months or so for him to have mail in hand. If anything is sent Fedex or UPS and is not routed through the Twentynine Palms town post office first, to get a USPS tracking number/stamp, it is refused by the base post office. Does anyone have any tips? Does anyone know who I should call to file a complaint? He's been there for a year and leaves for the Middle East in August or September. Has anyone any ideas? Thanks!
Rachel in Wisconsin, son at 29
Corpsman son home from 2nd trip to that horrible sandy place! He and all the Marines are safe and sound - thank goodness! Soon he's off to Rota, Spain. Anyone with tips or suggestions?
Here's the latest email my daughter sent from half way around the world; "I just got pinned!!! :D.. our ENTIRE medical team came for my ceremony plus some Marines came, the room was so full, the formation started to go down the hallway Lol.. but our Gunnery Sgt came and got a lot of
pictures. "
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