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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 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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
This Group is for those who have SAILORS that graduated 03/07/2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as your SAILORS continue on their journey in the Navy!
Location: great lakes
Members: 50
Latest Activity: Mar 27, 2014
~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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Thanks diannep, and I do keep my phone close just in case. And thank you for the welcome!
taylorsierra: Welcome! Unfortunately, the calls are totally random and can come (or not) at any time. SO just keep that phone close by, even in the bathroom or when stepping out to get the mail!
Sugrnspicy, Your son will know the rules while on liberty, he will also know Navy rules are not meant to be broken. If your sailor doesn't follow the rules (which I am sure he will), it can bring consequences even at A School.
I am sure your guidance will help him make the correct choices. :)
It is the parents that raise a Sailor, but the Navy now "owns" them.
I talked to my son's dad today. He is wanting to drive back here to Wisconsin after PIR with our son. I told him that the rules are that they can not go further than 50 miles from base. It appears he lives about 40-45 miles from base. I just think that it is too much of a risk to get him back on base in time. He has no idea how far it is from gate to ship. I know he doesn't check out Navy for Dads at all, so he has no clue. He said he'll let our son decide what he wants to do after PIR, and that rules are made to be broken. I am hoping that my guidance and his brief time in the Navy has taught my son to make good judgements, and decisions and abide by rules. He responded, "We raised him, not the Navy." I just want to shake him....GRRRRR!!! I am pretty certain my son will act more responsible than his dad. No wonder we are no longer married...
Hello! My name Sierra and I just joined the group. Does anyone know how often they are allow to call us? I received a call from him last weekend, but missed it and I didn't think I would get another until the final call, but he called again yesterday which was surprising. Does anyone know anything about phone calls?
Hi Friends!
"I will lie down and sleep in peace,
for You alone, O Lord,
make me dwell in safety."
Psalm 4:8
What a cool shirt!!
Good Morning!
Greetings from the blizzard capital of the USA (yup, ANOTHER one tonight!)
I'm so happy the phones were ringing today :)
I booked some rooms that were a little farther from the base than I wanted, but we have a large group, and I found a place with decent suites/full kitchens (I don't think my SR is going to want to eat out).
It is the Homewood Suites/Hilton - Chicago/Lincolnshire; it's 11ish miles from base, but it'll do.
Anyone else going to stay there? Let me know :D
Laura
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