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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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Back from PIR
We arrived back home from PIR late last night. All I can say about the entire experience is Oh My Gosh!!!!! It was Absolutely Amazing!!!!!
My Sailor has grown up. As much as it kills me in some ways, he is no longer the boy that I went to see sworn in at MEPS on 7/2/12. The person I hugged after PIR ceremonies on 8/31 is now a young man. He is one that I am VERY proud of.
Saturday, I watched him board the first of many planes I will watch him board over the next several years. It broke my heart to see him leaving me, but at the same time, I know that it is time for him to open up his Sails and go where he needs to go. I know that the Navy will watch over him and he is much safer and in better conditions that his friends are that went off to college. We are making tentative plans to go see him in about 6 weeks and then he will be home for Thanksgiving and Christmas. That is as far as I'm planning out for now.
To be perfectly honest, it feels weird knowing that he will never be back home permanently and things will never be like they were before he left. But I know that he is doing what he needs to do and I'm simply walking in my parents footsteps from when I was his age. Life is simply coming full circle for me.
Bravo Zulu PIR 8/31/12.....Job Well Done.
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Comment by ebigirl on September 3, 2012 at 3:19pm
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I felt the exact same way about PIR. The ceremony itself was a real "ete opener" for me, and amazingly executed. Not only was I extremely proud of my son, it reminded me just how lucky and proud I am to be an American.
The Navy does a great job with their recruits in 8 short weeks. Joining the Navy is the very best thing my son could have ever done for himself and his future. Congratulations!
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Comment by t'snavymom on September 3, 2012 at 5:21pm
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Oh my goodness, I truly agree with your comments about PIR; and I feel the same way about my son! I have to admit your blog made me cry a little but it does a wonderful way of describing our life with sailors!
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