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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.
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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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The Box
I received my "Box" today. I kind of thought today would be the day I just pointed to it and asked my youngest to take it to Jordan's room. Then I couldn't swallow, catch my breath and started to cry. This last for about 3 or 4 minutes then it came to me. Thank God my Box was cardboard and not wood! At that moment I saw this as my son's future and not the end to his childhood. My heart goes out to all the loved ones of our military men and women who have had to receive the wooden box. May God watch and protect my son so that day will never come for me. Thank you to all who have laid down their lives so that I may be free and live in these great United States of America.
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Comment by modaPIR5/11Ship12Div147 on April 24, 2012 at 9:58pm
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@Tampamom...I know it's hard receiving "the box". It was for me too. I still have that box and all its contents in my daughters room, sitting in her chair. I can't bring myself to get rid of it, nor do I intend to! I plan to keep at least a part of it, in some way, for her scrapbook we started when she left for BC in March. PIR is just a couplw weeks away for me...I thought it would never get here...LOL. Time will make things better, I promise. Stay in touch on this site...it will help like nothing else! Seeing other moms, wives, girlfriends, going through the same thing will become your strength. If you haven't already done so, join group "Boot Camp Mom's" and when you get the form letter, be sure to join your SR's PIR group. Before you know it, you will be going to your sons PIR!!!
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