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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!

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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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Feeling very overwhelmed

 

I just signed up for this and I thought it would be helpful, and on an intellectual level, it has been, but emotionally, I am so overwhelmed by all the things I didn't know.  And more so by the things I know I still have no idea about.

 

My son leaves on Monday for GL and while I'm so excited, I'm so sad.  I've been reading about "The Box" and all the things that get sent home and smelling his clothes and crying and I think to myself, What has he gotten me into??

 

I have so many pieces of conflicting info...like the Navy says to send his banking account info and his ATM card and stamps and writing supplies and money and an address book, etc. but some of the posts I've read say that all that comes back.  Can I send him a phone card?  Will he be allowed to keep his very very small wallet which hold his drivers license?

 

I know every single person has felt this way, I know I'm not the first, I know I'm not the saddest, but boy, do I feel like all those things.  My heart is breaking because I'll miss him.

 

Thanks for allowing me to vent.

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Comment by DisneyDebi (02/903) on October 11, 2011 at 12:56pm
@Staci - Its great to hear from another mom who's already been there, done this!  I just got the box last night and I cried when I got to his phone.  Your daughter is too funny and so right!  I found the underwear at the bottom of the box and I must admit, I was like EWWWWW LOL  Hugs back at you!
Comment by Btownmom on December 6, 2011 at 7:39am

DisneyDebi - We all feel your pain. But as the others have told you, there is a feeling of pride that can't be touched. It really will be OK. Some of us don't hear from our sailors as often as we would like, but we have to remember they are doing a very important job and they have very little time for themselves sometimes. Just be glad that you know to expect the box of clothes coming home. One poor mother didn't know to expect it and when her son's clothes arrived she thought he was dead. There are so many new adventures ahead for your child and you will feel the experiences right along with him. You will share in his excitement of each new place he sees, you will find yourself researching places that you know he is going to and places he has seen. Best of luck to you and remember that it is OK to cry, it helps to rid us of troubled minds, and the best part is when you can laugh and when you hear his voice, be sure to tell him that we are ALL so very proud of him for making this choice and tell him Thank You for serving our country.

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