This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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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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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ALUMNI of PIR 04/12/2013 TG 22 10 Divisions (143-150, 809, 922)
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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 04/12 /2013. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 85
Latest Activity: Feb 11, 2014
WELCOME to PIR 04/12/2013!
~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".
Comment Wall
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Comment by retherforddonna 09/149 on April 10, 2013 at 3:15pm
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Waiting on that call... HOOYAH... 149
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Comment by KansasNavyMom on April 10, 2013 at 3:15pm
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A big "Amen" to Ry-Mom's thoughts. Dianne, Lala, Ellen, LeAnn (and other wonderful veteran moms), your guidance and advice (and most definitely your humor!) have been incredible as we agonized and worried and felt our way through this experience. Even those of us who have been away from our kids were always able to call or text and we knew (at least basically) what they were doing. The not knowing, the comm blackout, and the stress of this foreign experience were lessened ever so much by your wise and caring way of steering us away from the ledges of our own imaginations and shoring us up while we figured out this thing called Navy. It's hard to tell you how much that meant to me. Thank you thank you thank you!!
Happy birthday to Dianne's son!!
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Comment by sandy on April 10, 2013 at 1:45pm
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So I have a question.. I asked my son if I need to bring his cell phone and he said the box with his cell and clothes never made it to its destination.. where would we begin to track the box ? He had it sent to his old roommate who was never home when the
box was to be delivered..
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Comment by ellen0502 on April 10, 2013 at 1:42pm
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If your SAILOR (love that word) is staying in GL for A School, remember to try and get to the gate on the TSC side early Friday to pick them up. It is great fun to listen and watch the sailors as they march from their ships to the gate for liberty.
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Winski, This page will change to Alumni of ... Friday night. You can all stay right here.
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Comment by Winski on April 10, 2013 at 1:22pm
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Oh my, I forgot to thank ellen502 also. If I left any veteran mom out, I apologize! (Geez, I feel like I'm at the Oscars about now!) LOL
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I am absolutely unfocused today! Leaving this afternoon to make half of the journey then the rest tomorrow. So excited (I just had to type "excited" three times to get the spelling right!!!) I am ALMOST as excited to meet all you moms who have been my support through this journey as I am to see my son! Diannep, lemonelephant, FTLW, Lala, Cor I so appreciate you being there for us and being so patient and kind with our many, and often repetitive, questions! To all the moms in this group, I so appreciate your support and kind words through the good days and the bad. I've been totally impressed with the thoughtfulness and concern of everybody! I know God has a path for my son and is bringing certain people into his life in accordance with that plan. Well, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt he has placed all of you in my life at just the right time and for just the right purpose! Y'all know it is hard to talk to our regular friends (and even sometimes our husbands!) as they just don't really "get" what we are going through. But I always know I can count on you guys to understand completely!!! Hopefully we will be in contact sometimes in the future too, since we are all part of the Navy family! Maybe we should make a 4/12/13 alumni page! See you VERY SOON!
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Amen Treysmom!
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Well ladies, we survived! Cannot believe we will finally be seeing our Sailor's in less than 2 days! Not sure I would have made it without all of the understanding and support I have found here - what a rollercoaster of emotion this has been... Thinking of everyone waiting for their Sailor call this afternoon. Safe travels to all! Can't wait to meet everyone :)
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Comment by Proudmamma (SHIP 09 DIV 149) on April 10, 2013 at 11:43am
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SO anxious to hear from my Girl (DIV 149). I haven't posted much but reading the posts from all of you has really helped me feel connected. Thank you all for being there. Hope to meet some of you at Sarges get together. Is it REALLY tomorrow night??? Safe travels to you all. Is it past 2:00 pm yet?
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