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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:
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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 03/08/2013. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Your current Group "veteran members" are:
diannep
LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons
ellen0502
♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW
Betsy, son on Stennis carrier
Craig
Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 85
Latest Activity: Mar 10, 2016
~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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All - wanted to get this out there as soon as I returned from my sailor's PIR this past weekend. Was wonderful! However - a rather large blip in the system: the recruits were given the information that anyone 12 and under did not have to be on the access list. I have a 12 yr old and was told this by my recruit so he was not put on the list, but he has 2 older brothers so as the 4 we went with all adults. I then read on the navy bootcamp website that they changed that and it is now 3 and under. I assumed that my recruit had reported back incorrectly however when we were at PIR there were 2 families in our section that received the same information from their sailor and wound up having mother/grandmother sit in the car with the 12 or under yr olds because they were NOT allowed in. I wanted to make sure this was out there to update people on the correct policy. I did post this in the PIR reference section also but diannep I wanted to get this out there because there were 2 heartbroken families there (it's not just about the child missing it, it's more about now another adult also had to miss it.) They were different divisions then my son also.
Catmom! you deserve a challenge coin for that post on PIR! Spot on with great info for those with upcoming PIR.
Yes, anywhere you would like to post would be good.
Yes, many are members of both groups, but some leave BootCamp Moms once they join their PIR group (or don't go on there much anymore). Thanks, CatMom!
That's why I put it on Boot Camp Moms because I was a member of that and my PIR group, hoping most would be members of both too or is that not true?
Okay, should 02/22 and 03/29 have it too?
CatMom: Would you mind copy and pasting what you posted on BootCamp Moms into a discussion group on the 03/15/2013 group? Lots of info in there that the ladies in that group may want to read. Here is the link to the group:
Diannep,
I put a big long, 4 sectioned post about my PIR experience and advice to the moms/dads of Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) because I thought they needed the info to schedule their upcoming PIRs. I don't know if I put anything up that would update your site, but please check it out. Just thinking our alumni moms dont' need to read it, since we/ve all been there and back! Are we allowed to post any photos of us with our Sailors here now?
It is now an alumni group so stay right here!
The 03/01 date was a typo...you are in the right place!
diannep- does the PIR group become the Alumni group or do we need to join another group?
and in the information at the top it states this is for the group that graduated Boot camp on 3/1/13. Am I in the right place?
thank you to all for keeping this going.
kandilee! Bravo Zulu! That is WONDERFUL! So proud of your sailor!
Proud Mom. Thanks for the info. I wonder if this has been happening in every PIR group? We have not heard that before. Thanks so much for the info
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