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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

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:

RTC Graduation

**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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Norfolk Sailors - Family & Friends

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Norfolk Sailors - Family & Friends

For families and friends of Sailors who are stationed at Norfolk; for either Sea Duty or Shore Duty Sailors. Just make sure to keep OPSEC issues in mind and not disclose ship movements in advance.

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In the event of an emergency within the sailor’s family, where you feel the sailor must be notified and considered for Emergency Leave, you must notify the American Red Cross through the national headquarters in Washington, DC (1-877-272-7337) or via their website www.redcross.org.

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Comment by Leach73 on October 22, 2014 at 10:21am

Hello all!

I am back from my long weekend visit to Norfolk, or Nor-fick, as the locals call it. On Friday night, she drove us over to Ghent and had dinner. I liked the feel of the small town with the shops and restaurants. On Saturday, it was so great to see my daughter in her element while giving us a tour of her ship. She showed it with pride and explained so much to us. It was overwhelming! We also met some of her shipmates and I made sure to thank each and everyone of them for their service and sacrifice. After the tour of the Porter, we drove over to the Fleet Fest and enjoyed the music, food , car and bike show, and all of the informational booths and displays of the Navy jets and helicoptors. The lines were super long for the ship tours! It is breath-taking to see how humongous these ships are! After the fest, our Sailor took us to downtown Norfolk to the MacArthur mall because we had planned on catching The Book of Life movie, but before the movie we got to walk around the mall and do a little shopping! That is always fun!!

On Sunday, we went to Grace Bible Church I think that is in Virginia Beach. My daughter has been going to this church since she got to Norfolk and really likes it. It is similiar to our home church in Chicago but on a much smaller scale. After that we went to Lynn Haven mall and found the Pizzeria Uno with Chicago style deep dish pizza because that is what she was in the mood to eat. Well, it was ok, not as good as Chicago but I give it credit! The rest of the day we just hung out at the hotel and lo and behold, my Sailor dozed off and rested. I caught myself just staring at her while she slept with amazement at who she has become in her Navy journey. God bless her!

 

Comment by Forever proud on October 21, 2014 at 10:49pm
Thank you John and Yvonne for the invite! I will let my son know about your offer when he gets home.
Comment by Proud AG Mama on October 21, 2014 at 6:37pm

Yvonne - thank you so much.  Your invite is a God send. I don't know if I will be able to get my sailor to take the step of meeting new people, but I am sure going to try.

My son can be very driven. He was very focused and accomplished a lot in BC and A School. He has been at his station, like I think I mentioned, for a week. He seems to have lost his drive already.  He can be on the shy side. The sailors he has met so far are into computer games, which is fine short term, but he needs other interests. I would love to see him get out and join your group of sailors.Thanks again. You may be a life saver, at least how I am feeling right now.

Comment by John and Yvonne on October 21, 2014 at 1:34pm

CO_Twin! How terrible! All that work for nothing! So, I guess I won't be buying a freezer. :)

Proud AG Mama, Welcome! The base-pretty big! :) The area:there's a lot to do here, from museums to the beach to Busch Gardens, to Williamsburg, (this is a big history area).  And a little farther away is DC, just to mention a few.

And if your son wants a home cooked meal and likes to play board games, go bowling, mini golfing he would be welcome to join my husband and I and other sailors at our house on the weekends.  We get together on Saturday evenings from 5 to 9 and on Sundays from 1 to 5. 

We've been here for the last 14 years inviting sailors, soldiers and marines over to have a place to hang out when they're not busy doing other things. :)

Forever proud, we would be happy to invite your sailors over here too when he gets back.

Yvonne and John Wagner

P.S. If you want to know more about us, just go to our page on this site.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on October 20, 2014 at 1:19pm

Forever proud... When my boys were little our local vet took us along for a vet call to a local wildlife rehab center. The lady there showed up the lion enclosure. She had platforms built up in trees that were 8 to 10 feet up. She told us how the DOW drops off road kill for her and they put an elk in the enclosure and the lion will grab it and jump up on the platform with it!! That is how strong they are. They also have the ability to open their mouths wide enough to grab an adult human skull. 

My son also went right from the airport to a moving ship when he arrived at norfolk. At some point on deployment he was assigned a barrack so he did have a place to go when he got back. There are also REALLY nice storage places that are really cheap for the sailors to store their stuff.

Comment by Forever proud on October 20, 2014 at 12:32pm
CO Twin that is terrible! That was either a small Elk or a big Lion!
Welcome Proud AG Mama! I don't know much about Norfolk as my son just got stationed there and was promptly sent out to sea. He doesn't have a place to put his stuff when he gets back!
Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on October 20, 2014 at 11:48am

Image result for sad smiley faceSad for my son. He went back to get his Elk and it was gone, A lion carted it off.

Comment by Proud AG Mama on October 19, 2014 at 9:56pm

Thank you for the add. Hi all! We are new to Norfolk. By we I mean my new young sailor just got stationed there. Anything you can tell me about the base and area would be great.

Comment by John and Yvonne on October 19, 2014 at 6:31am

I hope all you moms who were able to be here this weekend for fleet week had a great time. 

I wish we could personally meet some of you, especially those who we've been in contact with. :)

Just a reminder...if any of you think your son or daughter would be interested in joining us and other sailors at our house on the weekends, we would be happy to have them contact us or we contact them. We had a great time last night eating Rubens and playing Settlers of Cataan. We play a  lot of board games here. :) 

Enjoy the remainder of the weekend here.

Yvonne and John

Comment by JackieD on October 18, 2014 at 11:46am

My son also had work done by JT at Accurate-Tune.  I would recommend them also.

 

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