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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!

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Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

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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.

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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."

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ALUMNI OF PIR 3/16/2012 TG 18 — 14 Divisions (087–096, 807–808 & 918–919)

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This site is for families and friends of Sailor Recruits with PIR March 16, 2012. This is a great way to share information, concerns and to connect as we continue the journey through bootcamp to PIR and beyond.

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir03162012
Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 124
Latest Activity: May 18, 2013

Welcome to PIR 3/16/2012

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OPSEC, OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance. Please take the timeto read the OPSEC and Community Guidelines. A quick note here: Last Names of Recruits/Sailors are not allowed on this site. If it is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended. First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture.

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CLICK ME for the PIR 03/16/2012 SARGE'S Meet & Greet

CLICK ME for the PIR 03/16/2012 RAMADA Meet & Greet

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You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 3/16/2012 TG 18 — 14 Divisions (087–096, 807–808 & 918–919) to add comments!

Comment by ChipsAhoy (ship 3 div 89) on January 31, 2012 at 9:18pm: Hey! Happy thought! Pretty soon there will be a PIR date that is later than ours!! :)

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on January 31, 2012 at 8:56pm: Thanks gonavymom, I look forward to making ribbons for you and your family :-)

Jill, I really have no idea. When I was there we went to the one at the Ramada but at the time that was the only one so the decision was easy. I am sure there are some moms on here who have been to Sarge's and tell you more about it.

Comment by Jill on January 31, 2012 at 7:53pm: I was wondering which meet and greet to attend. The one at the Ramada is close for us, that's where we're staying, but it's shorter in length, and I don't want to miss out on anything.

Advice, anyone?

Comment by Mary123 (ship 03 div. 090) on January 31, 2012 at 7:51pm: I decided to switch hotels and am now in the Springhill Suites in Waukegan. I was staying in Lincolnshire, but that seemed so far away from base and from Sarge's Meet and Greet. Now I feel like I can relax and get excited about my trip!

Comment by Diana Ross on January 31, 2012 at 6:47pm: FTLW, my online name is a pseudonym but my real first (not last) name appears on my page; my page can only be viewed by friends. Is this secure? (My actual first name is unusual.)

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on January 31, 2012 at 5:10pm: For our newer members and a just a gentle reminder for all. This will be posted for the first few weeks of BC. Please read all of it.

**If your username contains your last name and it is the same as your Sailors, you will need to change it. If you need help...just ask and we I can help you. TY!

Community Guidelines and OPSEC

Hello Everyone.

Safety for your SR (future Sailor) and you!

Sailors LAST names are NOT allowed anywhere on this site. If your last name is different from your sailors it is still not recommended.

FIRST names ARE allowed but I, and some of the other “veteran” moms, will most often advise you not to use them. This is a public forum and anyone can read the posts-they do not have to be a member (if the group is set to private, the public cannot read but all N4M members can-so all you have to do is join) While they use their last names in BC (in fact they don't usually, if ever, find out each other’s first names until the end of BC), the RDC's know who they are and can then, with the right amount of info, link them up to you. So, let’s say you use your last name in your N4M name, post a picture of your SR...easy to match up...and so on.

Why does that matter? Your SR's are trying to get through BC with as little undue attention as possible. "Fly under the radar", so to speak. There have been reports from moms of their recruits being matched up with them. Some are just identified…some get IT (Intensive Training), I am guessing this depends on WHAT is posted…I know of one mom who said that her son had to do 5 push-ups just for every time she posted!

The MOST important reason for being discreet is OPSEC-Operational Security. This is a way of life for us now. It will be for your Sailors career and for some of them, even more so, depending on their individual security clearance. Some moms have mentioned that even today after years they do not know EXACTLY what their sailor does.

SPECOPS...definitely need to be VERY careful.

Here is a link to the "Community Guidelines" for N4M:

http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/navy-for-moms-n4m-community

Here is the link for "OPSEC is everyone’s responsibility" specifically:

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=3342

Here is a link to the video on OPSEC on this site:

http://www.navyformoms.com/video/opsec-internet-safety

Please take the time to review this information.

Thank You.

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on January 31, 2012 at 9:50am

Comment by diannep on January 31, 2012 at 9:46am: Good morning everyone. Hoping that you are having a beautiful day where you are...and realizing that you are another day closer to PIR and hugging your sailor!

Comment by Pobre tomat on January 30, 2012 at 11:14pm: Greetings, all! Got the letter and we're on for PIR 3/16! Eager to hear all you have to offer. I shall share as I hear anything, as well!

Comment by diannep on January 30, 2012 at 9:52pm: Another suggestion for letters. If anyone is a teacher or knows one, especially of the little ones, they LOVE writing to the recruits. They can then mail all of the letters in a larger envelope to the attention of someone's SR. They will have to open it in front of the RDCs, but no problem. The SR can then pass out the letters to his/her bunkmates...and hopefully some will write the kids back!