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ALUMNI of PIR 03/29/2013 TG 20 6 Divisions (131-134, 807 & 920)

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This Group is for those with sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 12/21/2012.

A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 61
Latest Activity: Sep 18, 2013

WELCOME to PIR 03/29/2013!

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~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 The Absent Minded Housewife on February 27, 2013 at 6:25pm: Just hung up on a telemarketer so I can get my phone call...steenking telemarketer!

Comment by DenDig(GLASCHOOL) on February 27, 2013 at 6:08pm: Keep your phones close today!

Yay!! Bonus day. I got a letter in the mail from our SR today and just as we were gtting done reading it, the phone rang. It was our SR!!!!! He seems very content and happy with the way things are going. Said he and only a couple of other guys got 50/50 on their test Monday! He was VERY proud. He said that the score earned those guys an extra 30 minute call later this week!!!

In one of my letters I had enclosed one of those Boot Camp questionaires andhe actually filled it out. He said it was fun to see how much I knew about BC. He mentioned several names that I recognize from here so that was fun.

He is such a sports fan and is really bummed about missing the beginning of the NCAA Basketball tournament but is looking forward to watching games the weekend of PIR since it is Sweet Sixteen weekend!

Hope you all get calls but think you can count on it from DIV 133.

Comment by Cybermom on February 27, 2013 at 5:16pm: We're in NJ and deal with all kinds of weather, from hurricanes to blizzards, sometimes in the same week LOL! Funniest thing is going to the supermarket the day before a huge storm and seeing what peole stock up on. Mostly it's basics, often it's junk food, but the sad lesson learned during Sandy is that if you stock up on perishables and lost power for 2 weeks, you have to throw everything out within a day or two. That hurt a lot of people.

In terms of clothing, I'd agree on layers. My advice would be to wear warm boots, personally my feet are always cold and once they're cold, I can't get warm. I'd imagine the floors are cold, too. Let's hope for warm sun!

Comment by The Absent Minded Housewife on February 27, 2013 at 2:11pm: I went to a Jelly Belly factory once, in CA, and it was ice blue mint flavor day. Ooh the smell! Now I just can't eat them. Here is hoping your Jelly Belly experience is not on mint day or on the Harry Potter flavor days because otherwise the factory is a neat thing to see.

I'm with you on The Cheesecake Factory though. Yum. Chances are though that my new sailor will just want to stop at a Burger King and get his fill of that crap. Fat either way.

Comment by Daphne on February 27, 2013 at 2:06pm: Thanks, all!! My poor little SR has only seen snow twice...bwahahahaha, she's getting her fill of it now! An excuse to buy some boots...I'm in! Can you believe we only have four weeks left?!?! Five cheesecake factories and the jelly belly factory near by...I'm coming home FAT! ;-)

Comment by SYNTIA (Ship 02 DIV 920) on February 27, 2013 at 2:01pm: CourtRenee, I was talking about the average times in which our SR's have to be outside. It used to be a minimum of 6 times per day.

Comment by ellen0502 on February 27, 2013 at 12:56pm: It was cold in April last year when I was there for my sailors PIR, we had to scrape the car windshield Saturday morning. We didn't have to dress too warm, but then again we are from Colorado so 30-55 degrees for us was a heat wave. LOL

Be prepared and layer, layer, layer those clothes!

Comment by ellen0502 on February 27, 2013 at 12:56pm: It was cold in April last year when I was there for my sailors PIR, we had to scrape the car windshield Saturday morning. We didn't have to dress too warm, but then again we are from Colorado so 30-55 degrees for us was a heat wave. LOL

Comment by MartiB_TX on February 27, 2013 at 10:51am: Thanks lavendergrl8 i can definitely do layers. 4 more weeks!

Comment by lavendergrl8 on February 27, 2013 at 10:42am: Im from New York-I v ry used to cold weather also :-) all I can say is Layers. 29 days!!!!!!

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