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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.
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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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kat, Not sure what you mean about checking luggage at the airport to be shipped to A School. Are you asking if they can take extra luggage when they travel to A School? If you are the answer would be probably yes, although it is not a good idea.
Everything they have they must carry, they do not have help in doing so. Seabag on their back, backpack on their front, garment bag in one hand, and one had free for paperwork. They must load their own stuff on and off the bus when traveling from the airport, and they must carry their things to their BEQ at school, or be able to stow it.
The USPS has the best slogan that can also be used for sailors, "If it fits, it ships." Additional items should probably fit into the bags they are already carrying, there is usually some room in their backpack for additional items.
Good Morning and Congratulations to everyone. How exciting. Could you tell me if our sailors are allowed to check luggage at the airport to be shipped to A School if they pay for it? Thank you.
Good Morning!
"Open my eyes, that I may see
wondrous things from Your law."
Psalm 119:17
Sugrnspicy: So glad that he has completed his training now and is a sailor! He will have that great joy to balance the sadness he will feel at his grandfather's funeral...I know the hugs you give him will be because you love him and have missed him so much....AND for how proud you are of him! Congrats....and prayers for the funeral service, etc. Again, so sorry for your loss....
Good Morning Everyone!
ellen0502 How touching....it brought tears to my eyes. How absolutely wonderful for your son. His grandfather is his guardian angel. And what a story to tell his children! Thanks so much for the inspiration. I will have to pass it on to my son. Well, he's a sailor now, it's official! I will get to see him for the funeral, and then he's going back to RTC until PIR. Congrats to all you proud moms, girlfriends and wives of our Navy Sailors! ♥️⚓️♥️
You are all only a week away from the BEST HUG EVER!!! :)
Congrats to all the moms of new Sailors:)
How exciting is this ladies?!?!
Congrats to the 097/098 families who have received the *best call....EVER!!!!*
DIV by DIV it will be an exciting week!
We made it through! 2gether! Thanks VET MOMS for holding our hands and lighting the way for the past 8+ weeks. Thanks fellow TG moms who have been a great support system (either through this god-send of a website, N4M, or through Facebook). Thanks to ★Jeter'smom★ for helping Sarge coordinate Thursdays Meet & Greet/Basket Raffle.
Good Bye RTC, Hello Nuke School :)
HooYah, Navy Mom's!!!
Laura
Congrats to the first sailors of this PIR group....Div 097/098!
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