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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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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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jagcrazy- sooo sorry for your loss. My father in law is 92 and my son and I talked about what ifs and decided it best to wait until after PIR, So far so good. but I admire your decision to wait, It will be hard but will be for the best in the end. Can't wait till 3-15, hugs till we all get to meet.
Hi moms, my son also left on the 22nd out of DFW. I got his box today and am now anxiously waiting for his letter. Even though this isn't my first time to send one to boot camp (Oldest went Army), it is still really difficult to walk past the empty bedroom. Thanks for all the encouraging words.
I have been sending cards back to your requests...Have you checked in your spam folder...maybe they went there...??...Let me know if you still didn't get them, I will figure something out....if I have to I will just copy the numbers and send them that way..lol
Jag...send me a request to callsforrecruits@gmail.com and I will get them right back to you...:) k
I hope that it all works out for you and your future Sailor. It is possible that he could be in a Push division and only be at the RTC 7 1/2 weeks since he is arriving at the beginning of the week, so you may be fine. Be sure to check out the discussion, Things to Do in the Last Month Before Your Future Sailor Leaves for the RTC, as you prepare for him to leave. Take care and blessings to you and yours.
Thanks for the Friend request; I hope we can be around for some time to support each other. You will not know your future Sailor's PIR date for certain until you get the form letter about 2 weeks after he arrives. To guestimate his PIR date, count 9 Fridays after he arrives to get the most likely date, March 22, but know that it could be the week before, March 15, if he is one of the last to fill a division from the previous week, which is possible for him since he will be arriving on a Tuesday, or the week after, March 29, which is less likely to happen for him than if he were arriving later in the week. If there is ever anything I can help you with, don't hesitate to ask. Take care and blessings to you and yours.