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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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.
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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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Navy Speak
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N4M Merchandise
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Navy.com Para Familias
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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ALUMNI OF PIR 02/28/2014 TG 16 - 8 Divisions (091-096, 915 & 916)
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This Group is for those who have SAILORS that graduated 02/28//2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as your SAILORS continue on their journey in the Navy!
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 73
Latest Activity: Apr 7, 2017
WELCOME to PIR 02/28/2014! 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.
~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"
Discussion Forum
Ship 03 (USS Hopper) Divisions 095 and 096 (Brother/Sister Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Proud mom of a Navy Sailor Apr 7, 2017. 110 Replies 5 Likes
Ship 13 (USS Marvin Shields) Division 093 and 094 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Carol65 Feb 26, 2014. 26 Replies 3 Likes
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 915 and 916 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by loveHR Feb 25, 2014. 29 Replies 2 Likes
Are there any photos of PIR 02/28/14 ship 03 Div 095
Started by Wendy. Last reply by disneygirl64 Feb 25, 2014. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 091 and 092 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by PennyB Feb 24, 2014. 44 Replies 1 Like
Ship 02 Div 916 2-28 PIR???
Started by Kae'lynn Ship 02Div 916. Last reply by ellen0502 Feb 18, 2014. 1 Reply 0 Likes
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Feb 7, 2014. 4 Replies 1 Like
DIV 091 SHIP 14 MY SON
Started by Navy2ndMom Ship 14 DIV 091. Last reply by ellen0502 Jan 23, 2014. 1 Reply 0 Likes
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Comment by ellen0502 on February 11, 2014 at 2:11pm
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Good morning, or afternoon!
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Comment by Kelley on February 11, 2014 at 11:59am
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cupcakegirl14, is your Sailor staying in Great Lakes for A school? if they are, then there is a delay while they move to their new place, but if they fly out on Saturday, you get to have them immediately..you still get to hug them and be with them at the PIR regardless, but as far as the rest of your day, that depends on their A school
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Comment by Navy2ndMom Ship 14 DIV 091 on February 11, 2014 at 11:58am
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Gm to all and thanks Ellen!
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Comment by cupcakegirl14 on February 11, 2014 at 9:51am
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Wait! What? It will take a while before we can see our Sailors after PIR???
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Comment by diannep on February 11, 2014 at 9:32am
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Good Morning Everyone!
Has everyone ordered their PIR ribbons from Lala Ribbon Queen? Lala has been doing this for about 4 yrs now and makes beautiful ribbons for all family members/friends of the SRs. If you are interested in seeing them, please look at her pictures on her personal page on here. You can wait for her to post here, go back and look through the pages for her last post (red background/blue ribbons icon)....or find her under the MEMBERS tab up top. You can friend request her/message her from there for more info.
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Comment by CatMom509 on February 11, 2014 at 3:32am
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For those of you looking for a special gift for your SR-soon-to-be-Sailor, please check out www.pirgifts.com on eBay. They have Challenge Coins, which are a military tradition. Craig, who is one of the veterans on Navy for Moms, designed the ones that are connected to the ships at RTC. The name of your SR's ship is right next to the ship number in the Discussion Forum. When you click on one of the coins, you will be taken to a page where there is a video about Challenge Coins. This would be a special gift especially connected to their Boot Camp days! Another really sharp coin is the Core Values one in the section where 70 other coins are available--it has cut outs and a diamond cut beveled edge. These coins are no longer given out by the Navy to the Sailors, so it is up to friends and family. I got some as gifts for my Sailor daughter and she thought her USS Hopper (Ship 03) coin was "cool."
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Navy2ndMom, The Srs have the opportunity to fix the list here in the next week or two when the final PIR guest list is submitted. The names given when they got to the RTC are just names. :) Be sure to tell your SR how the names need to be listed, making sure the name on the ID match the name he puts on the list, not all "nicknames" are allowed.
For example Kathy will probably work for Katherine, and Tom for Thomas, but Peggy probably won't work for Margret, and Hank probably won't work for James H Jones.
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Hi can anyone help me on the guest list my son didnt put names he used mom, dad, stepmom and brother does this need to be addressed.
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Comment by nextstep02/28/14 on February 10, 2014 at 11:18pm
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Prayers for your SR and all of the families that everything will work out.
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Comment by Momma Shell ship 02/915 on February 10, 2014 at 11:13pm
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San Antonio, and we are most definitely planning to visit there for a weekend. Its just that I have his cell phone, clothes, checkbook, all that kind of stuff. Its only a 6 hour drive to Chicago, and we have family there, only 15 minutes from the base, but hour and half to airport. Just really need to talk to him again. Maybe he hasn't changed his form letter and I am still on it. I just try so hard not to put any more burden or stress on him, as he is plenty full of that. So I have only said encouraging things in letters and said we would be happy to just meet up at the airport if his parents (all of a sudden) want part of his life. Poor kid, but he knows how well loved he is on this side. :)
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