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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

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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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ALUMNI OF PIR 02/08/2013 TG 13 - 14 Divisions (089-100, 806 and 913)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 02/28/2013.

A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Your current Group "veteran members" are:

diannep

LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons

ellen0502

♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW

Betsy, son on Stennis carrier

Craig

sjtina

Cor

Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 142
Latest Activity: Oct 31, 2014

WELCOME to PIR 02/08/2013! PLEASE See the PAGES section for Informational Posts about BC and PIR. PAGES is underneath the Members Photos. PLEASE scroll down this page here to find the Comment Box to post a reply to the PIR GROUP.

CLICK ME forN4M's Community GuidelinesandOPSEC.

~OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance.

~N4M’s also has Community Guidelines just like any other social media.

~Please take the time to read the OPSEC and N4M’s Community Guidelines.

~A quick note here, from the N4M’s CG’s:

• Don’t Jeopardize the Safety of Our Sailors: Remember OPSEC (Operational Security) (Don’t Sink Ships With Loose Lips) This site and all content posted on it are viewable to everyone on the Internet. This doesn’t mean you can’t share things about your Sailor – but too many details can put Sailors in harm’s way. The following are examples of red flags and should not be shared within this community either by posting or sending via a Group message:

• Sailors’ last names. This includes your username if you share the same last name as your son or daughter.

Some Suggestions:

~If your last name is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended for you to use in your username for your own personal security. This is your option. It is also not a good idea to use an email address as your username for personal security reasons.

~First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember, everyone can see it and someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture to not include your Recruit at least for the duration of BC. Again, your option

~It is also a good idea to make your settings for your Profile Page "viewable only to your friends".

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Comment by ellen0502 on December 31, 2012 at 1:41am: It's 17 degrees here in CO, and snow tomorrow. I am on my way Dianne!!!

Comment by Ole-CorpsmanMom on December 31, 2012 at 1:12am: I am also ready for Florida! How big is your place! :)

Comment by Sam Ship 02 Div 913 on December 31, 2012 at 12:11am: @ Lala Ribbon Queen can you pick me up, I'm ready for a Florida vacation!! Dianne can you make room for one more??!! :-)

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on December 30, 2012 at 11:44pm: I told my hubby I need to run out for a bit and would be back and he said where you going, I said to get some Vitamin D and he looked at me like I was crazy and said isn't that in your multi-vitamin? I said no it is in Southern FL at Dianne's house lol

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on December 30, 2012 at 11:41pm: If my Sailor wasn't home for a couple more days i would hop in the car right this minute lol

Comment by diannep on December 30, 2012 at 11:40pm: Come on down, Lala! :-)

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on December 30, 2012 at 11:20pm: Thanks Diannep :) and just so you know I am so jealous of the weather you had today. It is time for me to head south, get the guest room ready lol

Comment by K's Mom! on December 30, 2012 at 4:39pm: Craig - I absolutely LOVE the Coins you have designed - what a great way to fund your website! You truly are a blessing to so many :) I cannot wait to get the coin in and take a look at it! Excited about my PIR ribbons too! Well, off to write another letter to my son! I saw one of his favorite little people today - one of my friend's sons' that absolutely adores my boy and he just started NJROTC at his middle school! :) Talk to you all soon!

Comment by diannep on December 30, 2012 at 2:18pm: kenna: Lala Ribbon Queen is the one who has the wonderful ribbons. She posts on here often. Just go to her page and see the ribbons! You can message her from there.

Comment by diannep on December 30, 2012 at 2:03pm: tara: There are no last names of SRs/sailors allowed on N4Moms or FB...at all. Yes, I happen to be on FB also....so know about the exposure of the last names. That is something the Navy has had to "cope" with and they are not too happy about it. I know for a fact that some FB groups have been deleted by the Navy for "loose lips" posted by the ladies re: deployed ships. Such a threat to the security of our sailors and our country.

The rule is that once the Navy issues a press release with Navy info, we can use that. But until that happens, we are not supposed to give out info like last names, ship itinerary, etc. An added reason for being careful on the FB groups is that you never know who the group creator is allowing into the group. This is the internet....after all. We occasionally get some people who join N4Moms who "raise our antennae" because of the info they have....when we ask them about this, they usually delete their account immediately. So ....what does that tell ya? Uh huh....you never know! But you have a vigilante group of N4Moms on here who are trying to do our very best to make this a pleasant experience for you all by being watchful of things that can cause problems! :-)

No one is saying that there can't be FB PIR groups. Just remember that if your SR's last name is the same as yours (and I say this to all on there), be careful what you are posting. Especially info that your SR may be giving you in letters/calls that he/she may not want shared. We have no doubt that some connected to RTC (even friends) are on some of these "closed" groups---posing as someone with a SR. So...if you wouldn't post it on N4Moms, please don't post it on FB.

Thanks for asking about that, tara!