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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.
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 03/14/2014 TG 18 - 11 Divisions (103-110, 808, 809, 918)
Information
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
WELCOME to PIR 03/14/2014! 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 04 (USS Arleigh Burke) Divisions 808 and 809 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by mtnestr Mar 19, 2014. 135 Replies 4 Likes
Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 103 and 104 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Laurablue Mar 15, 2014. 307 Replies 5 Likes
Ship 09 (USS John F Kennedy) Divisions 107 and 108 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Hoagie Mar 12, 2014. 192 Replies 5 Likes
Ship 03/Division 106
Started by mamanance. Last reply by mamanance Mar 11, 2014. 2 Replies 0 Likes
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Mar 10, 2014. 12 Replies 2 Likes
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 918
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Mikey'sWife Mar 10, 2014. 51 Replies 3 Likes
Ship 03 (USS Hopper) Divisions105 and 106 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by FavoredLife Mar 6, 2014. 23 Replies 3 Likes
Ship 11 (USS Kearsarge) Divisons 109 and 110 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by ArmHawkmamma Feb 26, 2014. 34 Replies 4 Likes
^^^^ BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST ! ^^^^
Started by diannep. Last reply by ellen0502 Jan 27, 2014. 1 Reply 1 Like
Ship: 03 Div: 105
Started by Renee. Last reply by ellen0502 Jan 27, 2014. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by SRBritsMom (Ship 03, Div 105) on March 11, 2014 at 3:21pm
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Just talked to my daughter, all in 105 passed BattleStations
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Comment by blessed beyond measures-14div104 on March 11, 2014 at 2:22pm
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popeyesgirl (Ship 14 Div 103) I know I will be creating something for our recruiter to give moms...I got nothing and learned on my own where to go...even some info they gave I'm finding out is wrong. Has someone already created a flyer for a dep mom?
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Im posting this early as i wont be able to when the calls and posts all start! Just wanted you to know my blue candle has been lit and I have been praying for all of our battle station sailor recruits. I know you will be getting calls within the hour and will experience the same joy, smiles and excitement I did when I got the call a few days ago! It is amazing how you realize you are exhaling the stress you never knew you were holding for the past 8 weeks on that call and the New feeling is replaced with pure joy! Congratulations! I know I haven't yet stopped smiling! Celebrating with you all today!
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Comment by popeyesgirl on March 11, 2014 at 2:05pm
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diannep - thank you for the driving tip! Is there anything we can do to get the word out to moms/wives/fiances/girlfriends at the recrutier level? I found the site from another Navy mom that I happened to meet about a week before my son left for Boot Camp -- sure would have been nice to get on much sooner -- so much great information! I would love to help spread the word -- and I will at Meet and Greet, PIR, etc.! : )
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Thoughts and prayers for all! The "Sailor" calls should be coming in soon! So excited for everyone!!!
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I'm anxiously awaiting too SRBritsMom. Just keep praying for all.
Love your post momofLP.
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Comment by diannep on March 11, 2014 at 1:30pm
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Since some may be traveling as early as tomorrow, I wanted to post this "Sarge's" hint today. This is for those driving to PIR as opposed to taking a shuttle (shuttles have no wait, they bypass the car line).
If you are driving, stay to the left on Buckley (main drag by RTC)....you will see the car line on your right of those waiting to get onto RTC. Drive past RTC and then turn around where you can and approach RTC from the opposite direction. It is then an easy turn into RTC, no wait! A lady posted recently that this was one of the best hints they received and saved them so much time.
Remember only about 10-15 percent of those in a PIR group are represented on N4Moms (sad) so they don't know these hints usually! That is probably why the RTC line is so long!
Be sure to tell those you meet at PIR about N4Moms.com. You would be surprised at how many have no clue. It is a great resource for the families during the schooling period for the sailors as well as the duty station period. So it is never too late!
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I'm not very good at this waiting game. I'm impatiently waiting to hear from my daughter in Div 105 today.
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Comment by Texas Sailor Mom on March 11, 2014 at 9:04am
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I have my candle in the window and been saying prayers since early this am.
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Comment by MomofLP (Ship 02, Div. 918) on March 11, 2014 at 8:55am
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Hoping and praying that all of our SRs have made it through the night with perseverance and a positive attitude. I expect we will all receive phone calls that they are now sailors! I am so proud of their accomplishment. Now I just need that phone call...
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