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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.
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 JJ on July 25, 2010 at 6:30pm
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Kathy B...just a reminder...this is normal to "go crazy" and have your sanity pushed to there limits! She is in a position where she is no longer a little girl and turning into that wonderful young women that you have been working on for 18+ years. Congrats to a wonderful mom. Now it is up to her to show you what she's made of. It might take a little bit, but soon she will reap the rewards of all the hard work that she will be putting into becoming an officer! She has two weeks to let go of that little girl inside her....that might seem like a long time
to her, (but not to us moms).
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Comment by spensmom on July 25, 2010 at 2:34pm
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Wendy,
I sent your request about the dogs to my sister who rescues animals and has a lot of contacts with other people who do. They work hard to find homes for animals. Good luck!!!
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Comment by burnsey on July 23, 2010 at 6:08pm
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Sorry for what your son and your family is going through:( Pet Finder is a good resourse for listing pets. I used it to find my second dog and it would reach a wide audience specifically looking for dogs. The website is www.petfinder.com
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Comment by lsP3Orion on July 22, 2010 at 6:29pm
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Congrats Shelia!!!!
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Comment by LZ27 on July 22, 2010 at 3:29pm
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Today is the the big inspection win their whites for OCS 19-10. They finish finals today and tomorrow. then onto Candio's!!! Yeah..so far so good. I can't wait to see him on Aug 20 for graduation. The Ensign box I had made is in the mail and I am anxious to see that. I also called our congressman and he sent a certificate too. Oh yeah also a flag flown over the capitol is on it's way. All this wonderful shopping for gifts and I got a new dress out of the deal!
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Finally got an e-mail from my son!!! Yea! He seems ok. Got his first care package and loved it.....especially the jelly beans! That really was fairly quick. Go Navy mail!
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Comment by pgrlisa on July 22, 2010 at 10:32am
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Good morning all. NavyMomXXXY - glad you're healing. My son in law chatted me up on FB last night. He told me that the weps have crushes on my daughter and call her the Amazon Princess (she's 5'10")! Also, I found a press release about the ship, so I know a little more about where they are going and what they are doing, She still isn't assigned to a division, but is learning about the operation of the ship. She's happy, so I'm happy. Have a great day!
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NMXXXY - Glad you are doing better! Have fun! but maybe not on that vehicle of yours. :) Glad you enjoyed your visit with XY. Would it be any other way?
All's quiet around here. I was so excited to get to talk on "skype" with my son for @ 45 minutes when he was in port but no communications for over a week. I wonder what they are doing??? Guess I will get used to this eventually.
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Comment by BunkerQB on July 19, 2010 at 12:21pm
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Meet and greet are lots of fun. If you like having many meet and greets within your geographical area, you can create a your own calendar for the year. This was a little more work than I had anticipated. I will probably simplify our whole meet and greet program next year but here is what I post on the San Francisco Bay Area Navy Families site and a link to one of the Events. The calendar was created using MS Publisher and saved as a JPG file for uploading as an image on N4M.
San Francisco Bay Area/Nor Cal Wine Country Meet & Greet on Jun...
California Central Valley Meet & Greet on August 28, 2010 If you are in California, please join us.
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Meet and Greets:
1. Assign a host/organizer
2. Name tags & Sharpie pen
3. Restaurant or at a private home? Pros and Cons of each.
Restaurant - pro: no one is stuck with paying a lot. Go dutch, you come, you eat, you pay - con: not very intimate, time of event may be limited, some will not come because they can't afford it.
Private home - pro: wonderful, warm friendly environment - con: the host/organizer has to do a ton of work.
Thoughts: have it at a coffee shop, pastry shop - less expensive. I personally would not drive 2 hours to have coffee but ..... at a private home, make it a pot luck to cut expense for host/organizer, let people sign up for what they can contribute (some will do main course, others will do salads, desserts, drinks, snacks, etc.
4. Getting the word out, setting up the meet and greet on N4M EVENT calendar
Below is a MSWORD file, click on it, save it to your MY DOCUMENTS for future reference, print it out and follow the instructions. I would send a message to the group (Use the "Send a message to the group" on the upper right) 3 weeks prior to event or immediately after setting up the Event (assuming you have input the Event already). In this WORD file, there is a suggestion on how to send address/phone number to attendees. I don't recommend disclosing address and phone numbers on an open site.
guidelines_meetgreet.doc
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