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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 Aaron's mom on August 5, 2011 at 8:58am
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Dale, you made me cry! I had a really good day yesterday. I didn't cry at all. It's not even 9am and I am already bawling today. Once upon a time, August seemed far away. Here we are now, 3 days from our boys leaving boyhood behind. My pocket isn't big enough to hold my sorrow. Hang in there, dear friend. We will get through this just like so many other mothers have done. I pray October flies to us with the same wings that August flew in. Until then, deep breaths - in and out.
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Comment by SonandSea on August 5, 2011 at 10:20am
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Girl, this IS tough!!! My son and I had this long talk last night sitting on the stairs in our house. He is so ready to go. I am not so ready to let him go, but I know it is such a good thing for him.
His room is totally NOT cleaned out (or up!) but that's okay.
This is one heck of a ride! Hold on tight, my friend! It is going to get bumpy!!
BIG HUGS~♥
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Comment by Spencer's Mom on August 6, 2011 at 2:58am
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I am right there with you~ Many tears~ my house should be sparkling by the time I am coping with my son leaving!
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Comment by JUDY on August 7, 2011 at 5:29pm
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Hang in there ladies. I am a Navy brat,Navy vet, Navy wife and now a Navy mom. Being a Navy mom is the absolute hardest thing I have ever had to face, it's also the thing I am proudest of. My daughter left on the 27th of August and today is the first day so far that I haven't cried. That being said, I have a catch in my throat. I got her box last week. She left a note for her father and I on her Ipod. We are looking forward to all of her Navy steps and hope to hear and share in her own Navy stories. Stay strong moms.
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