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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.
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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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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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 diannep on March 25, 2013 at 2:58pm
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Also, not sure if there is alot less walking by driving or not. As it was with the shuttle, we probably walked about 1/4 mile to get to PIR Hall. But with all of those people, you may decide to drive. Yes, you will need to be in the line by about that time. If your father gets tired, there are sailors posted on the base manning wheelchairs and they would be happy to take him right into PIR Hall and back out again.
And, yes, only the 4 on the guest list can go to RTC. The others will not be allowed on base. However, if you drive your sailor back to base that night (If not moving over to GL A School base), they can ride with you then and see a little of the base. Most areas are restricted from families, but they at least can drive onto the base.
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You will hear positives/negatives about both, mom3mpa. We had a rented car but used the shuttle for PIR. We loved it. No lines to wait in, picked the shuttle back up by the front gate when we were ready (they run constantly until around noon or later). The shuttle bypasses the car line to get into RTC, which is nice. However, others have driven and like that they can just jump in the car and leave after PIR. If you plan to drive, you need to be in the car line very early! We actually didn't get on the shuttle until 6:30, arrived at RTC at 6:40, and were in PIR Hall by a little after 7. You would need to be in the car line LONG before 6:30.
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Comment by mom3rnpa on March 25, 2013 at 2:37pm
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So a question for our veteran moms. Best advice - take a shuttle to PIR or drive? Everyone has differing ways that have been posted. My plan has been to drive as my 70 some year old parents are coming, as well as my Marine son. sounds like driving allows one to park closer to PIR, therefore less walking for my father. If driving is the case, leaving hotel early - 5-530 seems the best option? The remainder of our family will wait at the hotel - as they can't get on base at all anyway - correct? thanks in advance for the advice! Oh my gosh I am getting so excited!!!!!!
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Comment by KansasNavyMom on March 25, 2013 at 1:38pm
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12 inches of snow in Kansas yesterday. 26 degrees right now - hello 5th day of Spring!!
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...no snow down here....yet! :-) But turning cold tonight! In the 40's for us, so they say!
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Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on March 25, 2013 at 9:55am
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Lala, we have about 4 inches on the ground now. It's the heavy stuff too.
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on March 25, 2013 at 9:41am
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Good morning everyone, I hope wherever you are that you are experiencing spring. Here in western NC it is still winter and more of that white stuff is falling for the next few days. Hopefully no accumulation :)
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Good Morning Ladies! Happy Monday!
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Good Morning All!
Everyone, please remember that you have a "comment section" at the bottom of your personal page on here. Many may try to contact you that way. Be sure to check it!
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Comment by navygf on March 24, 2013 at 11:41pm
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@ellen0502 Okey dokey, thank you :-)
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