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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.
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.
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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:
**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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my son is also in the same division. we have not spoken with him since the initial , "i am here and am ok" call.
we have received a few letters, but not a phone call. hopefully this sunday both of us will receive the gift of a call from our sons.
my Sailor graduated 8/12/11 - it was 4 weeks before the first phone call - letters and cards (without sound) are very important for your recruit...i when to the dollar store and bought .50 cent cards and wrote everyday - sometimes 2 times a day - Mail call is like Christmas. They also have to earn their phone calls. i also placed 2 bandaids in each letter - the blisters are brutal on these recruits breaking in their boots and shoes. please do not send food or candy - they will be repremanded...i'm a proud mom of a gunner's mate on the USS Nitze in Norfolk VA. He is doing great - loves his work and says that one day he will be a chief or finish his college degree and become an Officer...remember - when the BIG door opens at graduation - a life comes through those doors changed...if any of you newbies need any questions answered, please feel free to ask...Southern Blessings, Cindy
also remember - that no news is good news - they are taken good care of and are learning and studying their hearts out...i didin't receive my "i'm a sailor" call till be crossed over the Indiana line on the Thursday before graduation...his group had to repeat a part of Battlestations 21...we drove 1304 miles from Texas and would not have missed it for the world...you get to sit directly infront of your sailor's division - get there early - so that you will get floor seating - we left the Ramada at 6 am - drove 3 miles to the base and sat in line for nearly 40 minutes getting onto the base...don't forget to print off your graduation pass ...
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