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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.

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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

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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 03/15/2013 TG 18 - 9 Divisions (113-120 and 918)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 03/15/2013. 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,Illnois
Members: 67
Latest Activity: May 14, 2013

WELCOME to PIR 03/15/2013! 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.

CLICK MEforN4M's Community GuidelinesandOPSEC.

~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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Comment by Jazzy's Mom on January 25, 2013 at 4:49pm: Comment by kellismom 22 minutes ago Got the letter today!!! Any Ship 03 Div 118 ers going to the Meet and greet at the Ramada for PIR 3/15/13?

I don't know about the Meet and Greet at the Ramada but it looks like our girls are in the same division.

Comment by suez(SR ship 12 Div 119) on January 25, 2013 at 4:34pm: anyone from ship 12/div 119 get your letter yet?

Comment by diannep on January 25, 2013 at 4:26pm: keillismom: Consider going to Sarge's too...lots of great info will be given out there for PIR weekend...good food too!

Comment by kellismom on January 25, 2013 at 4:24pm: Got the letter today!!! Any Ship 03 Div 118 ers going to the Meet and greet at the Ramada for PIR 3/15/13?

Comment by diannep on January 25, 2013 at 3:58pm: Hey there, Lydia! So good to see you on here! Love the new pik! I know the ladies will appreciate your help! How is your son doing????

Comment by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours) on January 25, 2013 at 2:35pm: OH and diannep.. hey girl friend!!!!!! xoxoxoxoxoxox

Comment by Lydia (For B - The Sea is Ours) on January 25, 2013 at 2:33pm: HEY there FireTeam and LaLa.... been soooooo long.....so excited to see yall Paying It Forward still!!!!!! thought Id come and say hi and ask if any moms here have kids in the 800s.. Rescue Swimmer Rate... please even tho they are not PIR'd as yet.... if you wish to come over and join the Rescue Swimmer Site for info and encouragement... you are sooooo welcome!!! Love yall!!!!! hooooraaaa

http://www.navyformoms.com/group/momsofaviationrescueswimmers

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on January 25, 2013 at 2:22pm: Ladies get your tissues ready if you watch this really short video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snqa0l_nPKo&feature=youtu.be

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on January 25, 2013 at 2:00pm: Ladies, please trust us when we say that the Navy is very tough on FB groups. My son's ship has a FB group and I do belong to it. They have had to post many warnings and comments about people about putting information out in public while they have been deployed. They have deleted quite a few members who were not practicing OPSEC rules. Just be very careful if you do go on there.

Also another thing you might also want to remember about FB is that your full name and where you live will be on there. It won't be difficult at all for an RDC to put you together with your SR. When my son was in BC, they called him "Maryland" because that's where he was born, so they can put things together pretty easily. It's very easy for an RDC to pretend that they have someone at boot camp, so some have joined those "closed" groups.