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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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
~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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RAZM: Glasses, yes (can't wear them until PIR though---has to wear Navy-issued ones), but cell phone, no. That has to be mailed home. Some have tried to sneak the phones and keep them there...big trouble if they get caught. There is still lots of time for you to receive the box...sometimes it can take up to 2-3 weeks to receive.
I received "the letter with PIR information". I have not received a box with personal belongings. I know my son was planning on donating clothes.
He still had his cell phone and personal glasses. Does anyone know if by chance maybe RTC allowed him to keep his glasses and cell phone locked up in a locker with his wallet?
LizziesHusband,
Hope you've planned something enjoyable to celebrate your birthday!! Please don't sit around the house and wish your wife was around~~ I know she will definitely be thinking of you, but she will do what she needs to do. Have a happy day as you can--do you have good family and friends to have good-natured fun with?? Please treat yourself~~
Mary Anne,
How cool!! Two Navy ITs in your family!! So you'll re-join the Sailors in Pensacola group too!! It's a Big Boat, eh??
Hello Friends!
"Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart,
and the pleasantness of one's friend
springs from their earnest counsel."
Proverbs 27:9
Happy Birthday tomorrow, LizziesHusband....and hang in there! I know it is so hard....but just know that it won't be long before you will be reunited and back in touch. PIR will be so wonderful for you! ...and you will be so very proud of her!
LizziesHusband, You are in my Prayers....she knows and I would be willing if you hard enough you can hear the Happy Birthday she is sending your way...My only son is 14-091 and his Birthday is 2/26 I am trying to think of something special for him when I come down to PIR on 2/28. this will be the first birthday of his we have not spent the day of together, so I know how you feel....Keep your spirits up, your gonna see her very soon.....I know I can't wait!!! HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY!
This is the first time I have been away from my wife for more than 1 week. Plus tomorrow is my birthday, first time being apart for a celebration. I am only writing her good things but, some days it is like waking up and falling off a canyon.
Good Morning Everyone,
I just recieved the official form letter my son is in Division 091...
I cannot wait to see him. I am a newbie and an emotional blubber so I know I'll have extra tissue if anyone is sappy like me.... ; ) Can't wait!!!!
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