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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
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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:
Events
**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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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- Graduation Info
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Permalink Reply by beachmom76 on
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Hi TrueLove-It's not you. They definitely speak a different language! The link below is to an online course called New Spouse Orientation.
http://tinyurl.com/NewSpouseOrientation
If you don't want to view the entire class, there is an attachments tab at the upper right corner that includes a glossary of military terms. You might want to print it up and keep it nearby when you talk to your Sailor. There is also a booklet called Sea Legs that contains a glossary. Find it at this link:
http://www.nsfamilyline.org/publications/FamilyLineSeaLegs.pdf
The first time I met my Sailor, we went out for coffee with a group of friends. All of them were in the Navy; I had no idea what they were talking about. One young man looked and me and said, "You don't understand any of this, do you?" and he started to translate for me... I think I fell in love with him right then. We have been married for almost 30 years!
So, no, it is not you. But there is plenty of help out there for you!
Good luck!
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Permalink Reply by MYSAILORSCOOPS0525 on
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Ive definitely interrupted a conversation or two with questions but Im sure they understand...no worries SailorsTrueLove! I know that feeling a little disconnected from his world might be a little weird for you (it is for me) but at the end of the day when youre together Im sure everything is as it always has been....Dont be sad! Im sure he'd rather you ask questions-it shows that you care!
Have a great day =0)
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Permalink Reply by SailorsTrueLove on
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Thank you.. Its good to know I'm not the only one who feels or have felt like this. Things are a little better now even though I still have to ask here in there what some things mean. My sailor is now in Texas and I will be going down soon. Hopefully face to face will be a lot better
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Thats great to hear! Everything will be fine once you're with him =0)
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