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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:
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ALUMNI OF PIR 03/07/2014 TG 17 - 7 Divisions (097-102 and 917)
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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
WELCOME to PIR 03/07/2014! 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 13 (USS Marvin Shields) Division 101 and 102 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by ellen0502 Mar 14, 2014. 44 Replies 1 Like
Ship 11 (USS Kearsarge) Divisons 099 and 100 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by ProudNavyMom (SHIP 11 DIV 099) Mar 7, 2014. 12 Replies 0 Likes
^^^^ BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST ! ^^^^
Started by diannep. Last reply by ProudMomInCO Mar 6, 2014. 12 Replies 2 Likes
Ship 09 (USS John F Kennedy) Divisions 097 and 098 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Sugrnspicy PIR 03/07/14 Mar 1, 2014. 90 Replies 5 Likes
Sarges Meet and Greet and Ground Transportation
Started by NHBBALL MOM. Last reply by NHBBALL MOM Feb 28, 2014. 3 Replies 0 Likes
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Feb 24, 2014. 2 Replies 1 Like
Basket Project and Help for Sarge's Meet & Greet
Started by NHBBALL MOM. Last reply by NHBBALL MOM Feb 23, 2014. 10 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 917
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by NHBBALL MOM Feb 19, 2014. 11 Replies 0 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by CatMom509 on January 22, 2014 at 6:57pm
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If she had bunny ears, she would be the cutest snow bunny!! So sweet, Lala!!
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Comment by rhonda/ship 13 div 102 on January 22, 2014 at 5:13pm
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Thanks sooo much Diannep!
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Comment by diannep on January 22, 2014 at 4:49pm
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Welcome to the group, rhonda!
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Adorable, Lala! She is precious!
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For those who have some free time (does that still exist?? HA), take your time and explore this site. That is the best way to learn. I know for those accessing from phones, it is a bit more tricky. Best to do it on a computer if possible. Use the tabs at the top of this page...explore the "groups" tab. Want to find a group where your your sailor will be attending A School? Put in the city of the A School in the "Groups/search bar." Want to find a group for your sailor's job in the Navy? Put that in there too.
I was overwhelmed by this site when I first got on it over 4 years go...but now...after so much exploring and experimenting, I think I can do it blindfolded! Don't get discouraged. There is info all over the place on here. Most of the info that is in the FB groups was taken from this site. Read the "pages" section to the right and above on this page. Go back to previous PIR groups (there is a PIR most every Friday---just put PIR (then mm-dd-yyyy) in the Groups/search to find a previous PIR group. You can read through the groups without joining them and learn alot from those pages.)
Here's a PIR group to start with. They just PIRed last week. Just click on the link below and read!
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on January 22, 2014 at 2:46pm
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Great that you are getting those form letters. Now you can send the letters you have been writing :) Continue to write every day if you can, it helps them get through the next day and believe me they will thank you for it :)
My Sailors are in VA Beach and they got snow last night. Their baby girl will be 6 months old on Friday and this is her first snow. She is the only reason I can think of that would make me want to go out in the snow lol.
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Comment by Navymamma on January 22, 2014 at 11:52am
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just got the letter!!
ship 11 div 099
So happy to see my daughters handwriting. Would have loved to see the look on her face when she finally realized why her Dad always writes in all caps lol
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...by the way, we no longer delete the PIR groups after PIR. ellen changes the title to "Alumni of PIR ____" and the group stays--- so all can stay in touch!
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Mickee6K: Just saw your groups on your page and realized that our sons graduated on the same day! Small world! He was in Div 076 and since yours was in 075 (brother divisions who trained together), they may have known each other. Wow...in the 4 yrs I have been helping on the groups here, I don't think I have ever run into someone from my son's PIR group. I was so sorry when our PIR group creator deleted our PIR group... :-( ....a couple of months after PIR. I see that you had a separate division group so you could stay in touch.
I'm going to friend request you to see if you will share your son's last name. My son has now been honorably discharged and is back home, hoping to complete his Bachelors by this summer on the GI Bill, so I could ask him if he remembers your son. I know that there were LOTS of SRs between the 2 divisions, but just maybe! :-)
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Good Morning All !
Mickee6K: Glad to see you jumping in, as a N4Moms veteran, to help the newbies! I know that you can offer lots of advice/info from your first time through Bootcamp!
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