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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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
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- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
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Navy.com Para Familias
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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LeysaNavymom
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- A little about me:
- I am mother of 3 children, and I also have two step children.
We have a total of 5 children...busy. Our oldest son John is 18 years old and just left to his A school. My other children are 18 years old Becky she is senior in high school, 15 years old Jack freshman in high school and our twin girls Carrie and Megan 6 years old in Kinder-garden.
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- Enlisted
- When I heard “Navy,” I...
- Was proud and encouraged it
- The Navy offers opportunities that...
- My dad was in the Navy so I remember him been away from home for a while. I think the military life will be good for our son John.
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Hi LeysaNavymom, Wow thanks for the article about Okinawa, so your son is going there when they are sending thousands out of there. Caleb is not going there he is going to Iwakuni, Japan it is near Heroshema. It is a Marine and Airforce clinic he will be working at. He has to stay an extra week and work at the VA Hospital and comes home also on May 16 so we only get to see him eight days. He has to report for duty May 25th.
My stomach rolls over like one standing at an extreme height every time I think of him going so far away. I wish there was another Sailor going too, he is not looking forward to leaving his friends, He is the only one he knows of that is going to that duty station. Even coming to San Antonio he traveled with other Sailors going the same place. We just place them in God's hands and know it is all good. Our boys are growing up. Blessings Dale
Hi LeysaNavymom,
Our son graduates May 5 also. So they get to pick orders this Thursday. Our son would like to go to Japan, so if he gets a chance and not many pick Japan that is probably his first choice after Italy and Spain. His first pick was Europe. He too would like to work with the Marines as an MFM, but he knows there are few spots open and little need now. Glad to hear the most difficult test is over. Best wishes to your Sailor. CDMom
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Enjoy your time here! I look forward (along with the community) to reading more about you! :)
-Colleen