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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 loved ones that graduated from boot camp on March 14, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 89
Latest Activity: May 9, 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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You will just hand write in your sailors information.
Hi Friends!
"I know that everything God does will endure forever,
nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it.
God does it so that men will revere Him."
Ecclesiastes 3:14
Thanks popeyesgirl...I didn't know if it was my computer not allowing me to do that. I will hand write too.
MommaD728 - I wrote the information in by hand - hope that's ok!
Good morning all!
I have a really dumb question...I just printed out my gate pass. I was unable to type in my SR's name, ship, division. Are we allowed to just hand write that information?
Thanks!
We have read some negative posts about the PIR shuttle situation up there from the 02/28 group. There is some competition going on, and some underhandedness going on too. Apparently, some of hotels/cab drivers are asking for full payment upfront for both ways...rather than letting the families pay for each way when it happens. Then, when the family goes to pick up the cab to return, they end up in another cab that charges them again.
So my suggestion would be to use Sarge's shuttle service. He only charges for each way---not the whole thing up front, so if you take another cab back because you get mixed up and miss Sarge's, you should only be charged one way. Contact Sarge to book his services: 847 212 0246 (text or call) or email: johnspadaro@att.net or sign up at his MeetandGreet.
Just as heads up! So sad that people are doing this, but there is lots of competition between the cab business with the Navy families in that area.
Just messaged you, Proudnayvmom.
Gate pass/parking pass is the same thing, Dittersmom. It allows your car onto the base. If taking the shuttle, or parking off base and walking to gate, it is not needed. But a good thing to have just in case!
The other gate pass is at the airport if your sailor is flying out. You will get this from the airlines counter so you can get through security and visit with your sailor until departure time. Bring ID for all members in your group!
Good Morning All !
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