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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.
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BBKS MOM
Hello everyone ,Iam an emotional train wreck you know
happy, sad, scared, proud name an emotion or feeling and I think I've had it. PLEASE MOMS CONTINUE TO
POST iT REALLY HELPS.My son left for BC on 12/2/10
I will continue to pray for our new recruits and our military.may god bless and keep you all.
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Comment by Hampton on December 3, 2010 at 2:35pm
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My daughter is graduating today. I sent her cards,Jokes Quotes Pictures Cartoons at least 2 or 3 a week it made her happy and it made me feel good. I went on her F.B and encouraged all her friends to write. Don't worry about
Boot Camp it's hard but they adapt and it's good for them. They really appreiciate more at the end.
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Comment by bella [mrs. ae2] on December 3, 2010 at 4:30pm
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Hello, I am not a mom...but I can relate to the emotions you feel right now. When my husband left I felt all of those feelings, plus I felt abandond and left behind. It is more then normal to have mixed feelings about our sailors first steps into the Navy. I think I cried myself to sleep every night for the first 2 weeks. It is hard when you don't know how they are doing and where they are and if they are okay. But let me tell you,
YOUR SON IS OKAY!!! The navy has been training people for hundreds of years. If there is one thing that the Navy is an expert at, it is boot camp. He is safe, and VERY WELL FED. He has a bed to sleep in at night and he is learning life skills that will turn him into 10 times the man he was before he left. I PROMISE! I am not going to lie, boot camp is hard, on them and on us. BUT he will be okay, he will hate it and love it at the same time. And every night when he goes to bed and all the other sailors are saying their prayers, he is praying for you, he is thinking of home and his family and friends. THOSE thoughts are what keeps him going. Be sure to send small pictures, news paper clippings, lyrics to his favorite songs, and lots and lots of letters. I wrote my husband 2 letters for every day, one in the morning and one at night. I dated and timed everything so he could know when I wrote the letter. I know its hard, but both of you will make it through. Be happy that your son has chosen to do something so honorable. Be proud that he is making such a selfless choice and willing to protect our country. I hope these are encouraging words for you. Just remember this:
HONOR, COURAGE, COMMITMENT.
These are the three things is takes to be a sailor...and to love one.
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I'm praying and crying with you BBKS Mom. I'm a month behind you and I'm dreading the day. Thank you all who repled to BBKS Mom...I'm am using your words too as I prepare.
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Hang in there Mom. I just returned from my son's PIR and I can't tell you how proud we are. He is a man now..so happy content and devoted to what he is going. You will make it. It was the longest eight weeks of my life but if you spend the time making your plans, ssending a letter every day even if it is just a card or news or posting on his or her facebook site..it will make the time pass. Welcome to the journey
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Comment by rickiemae ship4 div 803 on December 6, 2010 at 8:27am
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My son leaves this morning and I too feel like a train wreak, we are a career Navy family and still find this one of the hardest and proudest moments of my life... I will be looking to all of you Navy moms for support and hope I can to support some of you too....
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