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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 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
~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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Good Morning!
Hello All!
"For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,'
made His Light shine in our hearts to give us the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ."
II Corinthians 4:6
Happy Day! I received my letter yesterday. I'm so excited to be joining all of you! I look forward to getting to know you and can't wait to see you on March 21st!
BlancheMarie, we had the same problem. I had actually lost my job when the company I worked for downsized after my boss passed away. I did a huge spring cleaning and went cleared out everything I didn't need anymore. I took a bunch of clothes to a consignment shop, posted some old furniture we no longer used or needed on Craigslist and had 2 yard sales. I was able to fund my whole trip by doing that. Where there is a will there is a way :)
Good Morning! Welcome to the first members of this PIR group! Just a reminder to read the "pages" section under the MEMBERS PHOTO BOX up top...lots of info there! I have been helping on this site since early 2010. My son was in Bootcamp in 2009, and has now been honorably discharged...working on finishing his Bachelors degree now through the GI Bill...hoping to be done this summer. Please ask any questions you have here! One of us N4Moms veterans will be glad to answer!
Welcome!
BlanchMarie, The RTC posts how many guests are allowed at PIR, but they do have a set number depending on size of TG. Up to twelve divisions in a TG there are four guests allowed, thirteen and above three. The RTC was pretty slow for a while in posting, but it seems to be pretty quick again.
We can usually guess how many will be allowed for the form letters received and posts here on the website, but probably won't have any idea for about a week.
Here is to hoping the RTC posts quickly!!
Friends,
Also want to let you know that you can put your SR's cell phone on Military Suspension for the 2 months that he/she wiil be in Boot Camp. Just contact your cell phone carrier after your SR has made his/her "I'm Here" call and the phone is on its way back to you in The Box or any time after you get it back. You can do this for free and it will save on the monthly charges on that phone. You can re-activate it for the day before PIR. I was able to easily re-activate my daughter's cell phone online at Verizon Wireless.
you bet CatMom, It will be much easier have room for everything now :) I can't believe I used to make them at my kitchen table lol
Lala,
All ready for creating PIR ribbons, I see~~
Hi Friends!
"Lord, You establish peace for us;
all that we have accomplished
You have done for us."
Isaiah 26:12
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