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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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@Nancy thank you for sharing your pics. Your link worked and I searched through the hundreds of photos. I didn't see my sailor (he was div 812), but I spotted a great pic of the div flag! So thank you very much!!! Pics are wonderful and show aspects of the ceremony. You must of had great seats!!
@fishingurl04 your link didn't work for me. Can you please check it? Thank you!
here is a link to my pics from PIR ... http://www.facebook.com/media/set/edit/a.10150956834455159.478119.5...
Awesome! Thanks Arrowonred! Been waiting for them since I didn't get the greatest ones during the ceremony.
Anyone who has Div 812 photos that arent blurry if you post them I will be eternally grateful. Thank you!! My son was stick with drill flag and the RPOC blocked him completely from our view!
Thanks ladys im sure it will get better. It's just hard right now.
KiKi - My mother in law ended up driving with me there so I didn't ride alone ,but thanks. It was so nice to meet you and johnathan . The kids were talking about him all weekend ..lol. It was a crazy but awesome weekend . I was up from 3 am friday to 7 am saturday . Finally rested and back at home its nice to get back to normal ,for a few weeks at least .
Hey mom's of sailors headed to Pensacola. If you want to see possible pics of your son at the airport (Midway), I took a few and your son might be in it. Email me for my full facebook name and I'll accept you as a friend so you can look! amydudel@gmail.com
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