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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 MissElly( ship02DIV913) on January 3, 2013 at 3:39pm: hahah that's great momof4, I bet my SR is going into zombie-mode right about now. So they are full sail ahead? Any hiccups along the way?Waiting for my letter too.

Can I tip the Mailman to be faster?!?!

Comment by diannep on January 3, 2013 at 3:36pm: sailsetter/Keke: You are very welcome. All of us N4Moms veterans have "been there, done that" and know how we felt---pretty helpless during bootcamp!. I was so lost when my son went through back in 2009/2010. Knew nothing....didn't even know what questions to ask. Then my son was switched to another division after being asmoed (setback) for a week, so I had to change PIR groups on here. Yikes....I wish now I had asked more questions than I did. Although there were a couple of N4Moms veterans on there to help at the time, they weren't on that much and so we tried to find out our own info many times. It was then that Jessica, another mom going through at the time, and I decided to stay on and help with what we knew after PIR. I was so naive that I didn't even realize that I could have visited with my son at the airport before he flew out to A School! The sailors are not told this (sometimes they are told that they can't have family visit with them...but that is not true).

So....we always encourage you ladies in these groups to stick around after your sailor PIRs and share your experiences with the next groups! We constantly update our info from what you all share after your PIR.

Comment by momof4 (Ship 02 Div 913) on January 3, 2013 at 3:34pm: Hooray for letter day! Things are going good on Div
913! Go go go and barely any sleep, just what my SR loves!

Comment by Keke on January 3, 2013 at 1:58pm: THANK YOU FTLW!!!!!!! and all other veteran wife, moms etc who help us out on this site :)

Comment by K's Mom! on January 3, 2013 at 12:48pm: Kspeachmom - so glad you will be at PIR! See, you aren't behind at all :) Your daughter will do great!!!! Maybe I will see you there!

Comment by K's Mom! on January 3, 2013 at 12:46pm: I just love all the veteran moms on here!!!! You all ROCK! :D

Momof4 - I am with you - all done and ready to go! haha

gma - no news is good news! Don't wait to write - write them often, even if they don't have much time to write, they need to have lots of encouragement coming in :) As far as booking your hotel and flight - I wouldn't wait too long ;) All the hotels in the area look like they are great as far as if you have to cancel or change dates - even up to the day of! As for flights - I booked with Southwest - they had the best price when I was looking AND they don't charge for having to change the date if necessary :) Good luck in booking everything :) Hope you get a letter VERY soon!!! :D

Comment by K's Mom! on January 3, 2013 at 12:37pm: VIP Nana - as far as I know Div 913 is doing very well! I have only received one letter so far - really hoping another one is in the mail for me today! hehe From what a few others posted the Div is working great together and they should be on their second week of training starting today. There have been a couple calls out but I think those were only for security clearance things - very quick calls - nothing more. Hope you have a few letters in your mailbox when you tomorrow night!!! I am not sure about attire - weather is going to be my determining factor! LOL I will probably dress up somewhat - obviously a wonderful ceremony and our Sailors will be in uniform :) Most likely I will be in dress pants - with long johns underneath - haha but then again, I will probably want to wear boots! Maybe a long skirt with high boots and long johns still underneath! :D

Comment by MissElly( ship02DIV913) on January 3, 2013 at 12:21pm: VIP Nana- Last I heard from my SR and other people in the same DIV as us. They are doing great overall and training ahead of schedule. He did complain about having 4 min. showers with 84 other guys and only with 8 shower heads was a pain though. That and they only get around 2-4 hrs of sleep a night. Sounds like they're still in week 1.

Comment by sailsetter on January 3, 2013 at 11:28am: diannep thank you for sticking around and offering words of comfort and wisdom. What a comfort to come here, so new, trying to learn the language and ways of the Navy, feeling so raw, out of place and desperate for news, but having veteran BC moms that know exactly what it is like to burst into tears at a small reminder of their SR and give a calm..."I made it and you will too" vote of confidence. To have gone through this side of BC during both Thanksgiving and Christmas and having a reassuring and understanding voice to empathize, pray with and giggle with has begun to build friendships of support and a countrywide cheer team, that is priceless.