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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
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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
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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
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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 Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on March 27, 2013 at 11:41pm
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Winski, It is great to put your real name and your screen name on the the name tags. Sometimes a PIR group will have someone make special name tags for the meet and greet but they normally have the simple ones there if no one wants to do that.
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Comment by Nic'smama on March 27, 2013 at 11:31pm
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The 922 division will have name tags for parents and love ones to wear. We will put our names and usernames so we can identify whose who :)
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Comment by Winski on March 27, 2013 at 10:56pm
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Question for Sarges Meet and Greet. I am so excited to meet people I've been talking with on this site, but how will I know you? Do we wear tags with our username? I won't know your real names and can't remember all the faces!
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Thank you Lady Hamilton. I don't know anything about that!
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Ha isn't that the truth Diannep! Even when you are mad or down and think you won't be able to name more than one or two, once you get started you can't seem to stop. More and more keep popping into your head!
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Comment by diannep on March 27, 2013 at 10:47pm
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Winski: I"m with you on the REALLY LORD thoughts! Yep, that's been my life recently too. I have gotten to where I am so very thankful for the peaceful times of my life! There is lots of "stuff" going on in our lives now! :-) Counting our blessings...AMEN! Amazing how that helps! I do that in my very early morning 2 mile walk each morning before I start my "requests." It is amazing how many blessings we have when we start naming them one by one!
Prayers for your little dog and for your daughter!
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Thank you owhere!
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Catmom thank you! My daughter feels better today. Doctor says it is stomach bug and another virus on top of that that mimics flu. She is 23, finished college in Dec. and just started full time work last week! Bad timing for sickness but oh we'll. can't time that! And yes I did get mail today!
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Thanks Diannep. Yesterday and today have been a day when everything that could go wrong did! I was standing in one of the rooms of the house today saying, "really Lord? Really?" But then again, I am on spring break this week, so at least I can handle everything going on! So The Lord works things out even in times like these! And my trials are nothing compared to what others are going through, so I can still count my blessings. My little dog is hanging in there and my daughter is better today. Doctor said stomach virus and another virus on top of that.
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Great choice for the verse catmom509!
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