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Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!
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.
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:
**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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Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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BEFORE YOU ASK QUESTIONS !!
These articles are the "reference library" for moms, ready to answer FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) 24x7 (twenty-four hours, seven days a week). You may not have to post a question after all!
"There is lots to learn before coming to NNPTC." This link will give you much needed info:
https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/NNPTC/
NNPTC OMBUDSMAN CONTACT INFO:
(843) 296-9426
MILITARY CRISIS HOTLINE INFO:
RED CROSS CONTACT INFO:
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.
The time frame for each of the schools is listed under "Your Sailor's Schedule Upon Arrival to GC" to the right ------->
Here's a "Welcome New Members" link from BunkerQB with some good info: Welcome New Members
The NF Rating Information Card can be found at NF Rating Information Card. (If you get the security warning, it is safe to go there.) https://www.thebalancecareers.com/navy-enlisted-rating-descriptions-nuclear-field-3345847 has some good info for you.
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Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak
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Thanks William & NancyJo! Glad to hear that BAH continues while deployed. It makes sense but I didn't know for sure - and didn't think to ask my son. It's often quicker to get a response here than from him LOL!
B'sNukeMom if a sailor is receiving BAH he will continue to receive it regardless of whether or not his ship is deployed.
I only know from a married sailor's perspective that BAH continues. I can't imagine how they couldn't b/c you have to have a place for your stuff. Does it all go into storage otherwise? I might be making a stupid assumption but what else is new?
Had a nice chat with sailor yesterday. He got checked in to his ship (& by ship I mean carrier!). Because of the weather issues there were some delays with his access pass so he hasn't really done much yet. He's happy that the commute from his apartment isn't too bad (apt is in VA Beach & ship is in Portsmouth) but he said the walk in from the parking lot to the ship is 20 minutes! The place is huge LOL! There's a few guys from NY that are also on the same ship so they can carpool which makes it nice. He did mention something about his work schedule being M-F (6am until 3 or 5 or whenever they are done?) and every 4th day they have to stand a 24 hour watch - and they have to stay on the ship for that watch period. He also talked about underways they will go on to prepare for deployment. (He didn't reveal anything top secret so we are good on that!). This is going to be interesting learning about this next phase - especially deployments!
Does anyone know if they continue to get their BAH when they are on deployment? They have a 1 year lease on their apt.....
Hello all!
Thanks Mark! My son is in port and he sometimes mentions duty day. At least I get a better picture of what it is. He doesnt talk shop at home much.lol
Thanks Mark. Very interesting, "skimmers" and "targets". Gosh, I feel like I've gotten so lazy, finding information. I know that I can come here and ask anything. Instead of just doing the research myself. Lol I do appreciate the shared knowledge and the time you take to share it though.
Otter...LOL my nuke son has the nick name in our family as the otter. Gary Smalley characterized different personalities with animals, the one hat like to have fun and party is the otter. He can procrastinate just cause it interferes with him having fun.
I thought the navy would kick that out of them? no?
britefuture - the link I found below makes a pretty good case, IMHO. I'd add that there seems to be a little less of a distinction these days. It's not unheard of for submariners to call it a "ship", and a little less unheard of for a carrier sailor to refer to the carrier as a "boat" in casual conversation...e.g, "I'll be heading back to the boat in a little bit."
http://www.answers.com/Q/Why_is_a_submarine_classified_as_a_boat_an...
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