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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:
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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 mom3rnpa on March 23, 2013 at 6:44pm
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thank you all for the welcome back! despite being closer - in the teens (19!!!) - it seems to be getting harder instead of easier! My baby girl - miss her so - was hoping for a call - letters said perhaps the 22nd! Guess they are so busy! Ugh! Just hit me the other day, after graduation, she heads to texas and again, I don't see her! At least she can text then!! LOL!!!
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Comment by diannep on March 23, 2013 at 1:49pm
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http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir04122013/page/what-are-they-doi...
What they are doing in bootcamp link.
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Comment by Texasmom on March 23, 2013 at 10:31am
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Treysmom, I absolutely agree I will take a short note, sentence or even two words (i'm ok) over nothing. :0 ) somewhere I read that they are preparing for another acedemic test and the gas chamber exercise... I am in the process of finalizing plans to attend the PIR.
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Winski: Hopefully he will call you on a "good" phone next time. But if he gets a bad one again, ask him to try and push in the cord on the handset/phone itself. Sometimes this has been stretched and the connection is not good. I know this happens in my mom's home...with her 1960's corded phone and how she tries to stretch it to the max! She eventually has to replace the cords. I realize that the pay phones have stronger cords, but not sure if the connections on the handset/phone aren't just as bad.
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Good Morning All!
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mom3mpa: Yes, that is the problem with FB. Names exposed and then if "security" info is disclosed (mainly on duty station sites), it can be a huge problem for the Navy. We have heard that the Navy has shut down groups for this reason.
I wish FB would provide a way for military families to somehow have a separate group where last names are not exposed, but they aren't set up like that. Maybe soon...since they are constantly changing FB!
Glad to have you back! :-)
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Comment by NavyMom315 on March 23, 2013 at 8:13am
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So glad you got a call Winski. I am just figuring they are so busy now we won't get a call for a while. But it is good to be in the teens now. It seems more real
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Comment by Winski on March 23, 2013 at 6:58am
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Mom3mpa I didn't like Facebook either. I browse through sometimes but don't comment much.
I got a call yesterday! The phone he was on was kind of broken he said and the static was horrible so we had a difficult time talking. But he was very upbeat and said he was really liking everything. Tired of cold weather though! I had to laugh tho--he proudly announced he and his rack mate made a perfect score on something (static was so bad I don't know if it was a test or inspection). But they were rewarded with skittles. Never heard him get so excited about candy! I guess it's a fantastic treat though when you've gone without for four weeks! :)
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Comment by ohwhere on March 22, 2013 at 11:03pm
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Hello, welcome back mom3mpa & Dagmar! I can't wait you guys we are practically in the teens! Can't wait! Fingers crossed for calls tomorrow!
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Comment by Dagmar (Ship 03 Div 143) on March 22, 2013 at 8:11pm
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Hi everyone! Checking in. I know its been awhile but things have just been crazy!
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