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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:
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**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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- I am the proud mother of a Navy man leaving for boot camp in 3 weeks. He completed the US Naval Sea Cadet Program and DEP. I am married and have a 14 year old daughter as well.
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I am not necessarily new to all this, but I am if that makes sense. My son was in the US Naval Sea Cadets since he was 11 and completed that. During that time, he did their two week trainings each summer.
Now that he's enlisted and going to boot camp, I feel like I should know more, but seem to be finding out things I had never thought of. I sat down and talked with my son about the POA and MPOA. How concerned should I be to get these done before he leaves. Of course, he doesn't seem to think I should be so worried. He did agree to put me on his accounts in case I need to do anything for him that way. He does tend to think I'm over reacting a bit with the other.
Also, I mentioned to him what I read about the wisdom teeth here. He said I need to not worry about that either that the Chief at his recruiter's office told him that it's only a possibility that they will take out his wisdom teeth and that if they did it would mean a week off and a week's delay in his graduation date. I would like to be able to give him a more firm answer, but he is tending to believe more of what comes from the recruiter's office. My cousin's step son is in the Navy and recently did boot camp and A school and said not to always trust what info comes from the recruiters.
He also said for him to take his phone with him so he could use it to call and they would send it back home in the box. Is that a safe thing to do? I don't want it to get lost or damaged.
Any information you all have would be greatly appreciated. I am really starting to get anxious and just want to make sure I am not overdoing stuff, but don't want to miss anything either.
Thanks...Robin
By the way, there's a monthly informal dinner in Avon which meets on third Mondays. I know it'd be a bit of a drive for you, but if you're ever in town please just drop by. Click Mar 15 on the Events calendar (right-hand column) for those details. We're also discussing a future shopping trip to the Edinburgh outlet stores, so stay tuned!
The 8 weeks of bootcamp are tough for the sailor AND the mom, but they WILL pass! Just write as much as you can, keep telling him he can do it, and that you're proud of him and love him, no matter what happems. And if you attend PIR ("Pass In Review" = graduation), you'll be so proud that your chest will hurt!
Jump in with any questions or comments you may have. I think you'll find we're a nice bunch of folks and always willing to lend an ear to listen or a shoulder to cry on. Hugs! k.