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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 03/21/2014 TG 19 - 9 Divisions (111-118 and 919)
Information
This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on March 21, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 71
Latest Activity: Sep 10, 2014
WELCOME to PIR 03/21/2014! 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 13 (USS Marvin Shields) Division 111 and 112 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Praying for Hunter Mar 23, 2014. 83 Replies 10 Likes
Ship 09 (USS John F Kennedy) Divisions 117 and 118 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by wickwook Mar 19, 2014. 30 Replies 7 Likes
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Mar 17, 2014. 14 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 03 (USS Hopper) Divisions 115 and 116 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Lovingmysailor(SHIP03 DIV 115) Mar 16, 2014. 9 Replies 6 Likes
^^^^BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST ! ^^^^
Started by diannep. Last reply by diannep Mar 14, 2014. 7 Replies 0 Likes
My son is also in DIV 112,
Started by cjsmom. Last reply by ellen0502 Mar 8, 2014. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Coming from California
Started by LisaAnn. Last reply by ellen0502 Mar 5, 2014. 5 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 919
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by ellen0502 Feb 22, 2014. 37 Replies 1 Like
Ship 09 Div 118
Started by wickwook. Last reply by ellen0502 Feb 18, 2014. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 113 and 114 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by ellen0502 Feb 14, 2014. 4 Replies 2 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by diannep on February 1, 2014 at 10:45am
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Ladies, Lala, who posted below mine, makes beautiful PIR ribbons for family/friends attending PIR. If interested, click on her screen name or photo, go to her page, look at her info/piks there, and contact her from there!
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Good Morning Everyone!
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on February 1, 2014 at 9:54am
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Good morning Navy Family :)
Hi everyone I am one of the volunteers here to help you through this experience :) I know how hard this is for so many of you. And as hard as it is to believe the boot camp time will pass pretty quickly. I always say the days drag by but the weeks pass quickly. I was a mess when my daughter was there. I didn’t have much time to prepare as she was only in DEP one month and then she was gone. I was always wondering what she was doing and how she was. But it all turned out great and it is so hard for me to believe it has been almost 4 years. Now she is a Sailor and is married to a Sailor and they have a baby girl who is my first grand baby :) She was born July 24th and I was there <3 She is simply perfect and has already stolen my heart. :) After almost four years on this site I am still here helping others get through this experience and I love it. If you have any questions or concerns please just let us know. We are here to help you :) And please feel free to send me a friend request if you like. I am happy to help in any way I can. For now, start writing letters. The recruits live for mail call and your letters arriving every day will be what gets them through the next day. Mail call is like Christmas morning :)
Try to find something fun to do and stay busy. If you have little ones at home there are several things you can do to make this journey a little easier for the, Make a paper chain with a link for each day they have left in boot camp and let them remove one link each day. It will help them see that this is only temporary. Other have also put a quarter in a jar for every day left and each week allowed the child/children to use the money for an ice-cream cone or even for a special card to send to their recruit, gumballs or gummy bears in a jar work well too and they get a tiny little treat each day. So many things can make it a better experience for them. Welcome to your PIR group, we are happy to have you here :)
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Lovingmysailor: Please go back a page on here and you will see that ellen posted info about PIR weekend and I posted hotel/airlines suggestions!
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Comment by MommaDukes on January 31, 2014 at 10:44pm
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Mandi, I received my letter today and my son is on Ship 2 Div 919 too. It's comforting to "meet" someone with a loved one in the same division.
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Got my letter & my hubby is on Ship 2 Div 919. Anyone else the same?
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Comment by Shyandmac on January 31, 2014 at 9:45pm
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I sent a pm to you on here. :)
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Comment by amareinpace (Ship 14, DIV 114) on January 31, 2014 at 9:11pm
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Shyandmac, yeah, I am.
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Amareinpace, I am so happy to know that! That is awesome! Are you on Facebook?
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Shyandmac, your son is in the same ship & division as my husband! I've been looking for someone whose SR was with him because I was convinced he wrote the wrong date on his form letter. Guess I was right! :)
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