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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.
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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
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Submarine moms are special:
--- All of us have boys, "SAILORS!"
--- Who serve on "boats,"
--- With whereabouts unknown, and
--- We only get sporadic, short emails while they're out!
Tell us where your sailor serves...
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Hi Cathy K.
My son is at Pt. Loma also but on the Albuquerque.
I can't find aany group for his boat so I started one myself.
Hoping to find someone too!
My son is from MI and this is his first station. He flew out to meet his deployed boat a month ago.
Only one short email :( so far....
How about you? Is the Topeka deployed also?
I wish I knew more! I hear that San Diego is nice. Hope to visit some time :)
Beth
Does anyone currently have a sailor on the USS Nevada Gold out of Bangor, Washington, and is anxiously awaiting their return to port. My son has been gone since the first week of August, and u don't have to ask if I am a nervous wreck.
Hopefully they should surface sometime soon, I hope. Do I have company out there.
Arlene
hoo, boy, they are going to get some snow up there today!!!
mommajean! My son is on the New Mexico too!! He is pretty new...still working on his dolphins. He is a yeoman. I am so glad to get in touch with another New Mexico mom...you're the first one!!
Jody - my son is on the Nebraska (out of Bangor), but he's on the Gold crew. Do the 2 crews ever get together? I guess one crew checks out to the other when they turn the sub over; I don't know how much interaction that really is. I don't know my son's job (LOL); he's a Lt. JG (nuke) and has been doing electrical engineering stuff with the reactor, I think. Next spring will be his 4th patrol, I think.
My best friend is on the Carter. I miss him so much!
Hi...I am new to this group, as I took a break after he graduated OCS. Thank you for being here! My first question is that my LO will be going to a sub that is still under construction. It will be commissioned next May or June. I mentioned to him I would like to go to the commissioning. He downplayed, as usual that I wouldn't need to go.....so my dear N4M's, this is new to me, but shouldn't I plan on traveling across the country for this event?
If you want to take a trip and see your son and take in the commissioning you might want to go, but I wouldn't come all the way across country just for the commissioning. The ones here at Huntington-Ingalls shipbuilding are madhouses. You can't really even get very close...you will see more on TV than you will AT the event. Ugh. The traffic, the security, the traffic...the traffic....of course, we live here, so it's not a novelty. My husband builds subs. Where is the commissioning?
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