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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."
Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
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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".
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Comment by NavyMom315 on March 29, 2013 at 4:47pm
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Any moms in here with sons in div. 809?
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Comment by diannep on March 29, 2013 at 4:14pm
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You're welcome, Abucking!
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Comment by Navy2011Mom on March 29, 2013 at 4:13pm
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ReidsMomKathy... That's so funny!!! I just got back from going shopping on my lunch hour and buying some really cute shoes to wear for the PIR weekend!! Happy hunting this weekend!!!
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Good question, mom3mpa. When I started keeping track of the dates back in early 2010, I would post a schedule in the BattleStations discussion on each PIR page. Made it much easier for all. But....RTC decided that they want you all to start practicing OPSEC....which means....no talk of ship movement before it happens. Since BattleStations is a 12 hr drill of everything that could happen to them at sea (including fire!), then they want you to practice that. So....we had to go to private messaging the dates for that reason.
Believe me....it would be easier to have it the "old" way for me....but I understand their reasoning. Practicing OPSEC is obviously paramount to the safety of our sailors and our country!
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Comment by mom3rnpa on March 29, 2013 at 3:24pm
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why is the date for battlestations secret?
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Comment by KansasNavyMom on March 29, 2013 at 12:35pm
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Tomorrow I'm shopping for something new to wear to PIR. Everybody else will be looking for Easter finery -- I'll be looking for cute but comfortable shoes -- ha!
I have a box in the guest room where I'm gathering things to take. Added bleacher cushions this morning.
Diannep, I'll add a box of Kleenex :-)
Countdown!!
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Comment by ohwhere on March 29, 2013 at 12:31pm
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I asked my husband if he was glad that it was warming up and he said, "ha not really they still make us wear all the snow gear" and that makes them hot. Hopefully it will warm up and they won't have to wear extra gear. 60 degrees for graduation would be awesome.
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Good Morning! @ ellen0502 I love all the cute images you ae always posting :-)
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Comment by CatMom509 on March 29, 2013 at 12:27pm
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Hello Friends!
"For God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in Him
shall not perish, but have everlasting life."
John 3:16
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Comment by Abucking on March 29, 2013 at 11:38am
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Thank you diannep!!!!
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