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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.
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 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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Comment by BunkerQB on August 4, 2010 at 5:09pm
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Thank you, thank you. If anyone would like an autograph (no charge), please send self addressed, stamped envelope! ROFLMAO. We still haven't heard from our sailor. It has been 4 weeks. Presumably, he is out somewhere.
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Vent away, ladies. We have all been there.
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Comment by madre37 on August 4, 2010 at 6:13am
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cekj5 if you have facebook we have a facebook page OCS Class 01-11 Family and Friends-----we have quite a few moms, husband, wives, girlfriends. Lots of information and comfort for one another
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cekj5,
Join this group.
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/ocsgraduatemoms?
A group has already been started with OCS candidates starting this week. Good luck.
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Comment by cekj5 on August 4, 2010 at 12:16am
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Hi, my son started OCS on Sunday also. I heard the first week is especially tough. I am new to all this. If anyone hears anything could you please post it here. I just sent off a letter but I know it might be some time before they get mail. I am hoping they will be able to call this weekend but heard they have to earn this right too. I am so thankful I found Navy for Moms!
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No more sweating about it, eqbot. The first time I heard the term "beat up" I was ready to take the next plane to Pensacola - nobody beats up on my boy. Ha ha. ROFLMAO.
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Comment by egbot on August 3, 2010 at 4:41pm
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Layke, perhaps you didn't see my apology written an hour before your comment. I did not intend to hurt anyone and the Candidates use the term getting "beat up" as a matter of fact. I simply used the terms they use. Again, if my comment bothered you particularly, I apologize again. I can't do much more than that.
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Oh hey I am not upset with anyone!!! I understand, I am now walking in the shoes that everybody else has been there. Now its real to me, before it was just reading and like I said now its the real thing. Congrat egbot being so close to the end of the OCS journey. So please don't think you upset anyone. I am just over protective mom as my son can take care of himself. He is a husband and father and I just worry--don't want him sick, just endure and do his best and get this part of his navy career over. I am very proud of what he has accomplished in the Navy and this is another part. I guess its the not knowing how he is doing is making havic on my sleep. Its now day 3 already. Thanks all for the words, I can't wait until I can say 2 weeks to graduation!! You all have a wonderful day and I will continue counting the days to the end of his journey at OCS and how proud I will be!!
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N4M was not in existence when my son went through OCS in Dec '6 to Mar '07. We didn't think it would anything our son couldn't handle. He was a top athlete in high school. We were right but it was much harsher than we had imagined.
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Comment by pgrlisa on August 3, 2010 at 12:13am
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When my daughter was in OCS, I just told myself that this is part of the journey. Her goal was to be an Officer in the US Navy, and OCS was the only way she was going to get to that goal. It's worth the pain in the long run. Now she has her "butter bar" and is out to sea.
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