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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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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 Abucking on March 9, 2013 at 9:09pm
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Lala, Sorry thie is so belated, but thanks so much for posting the gorgeous picture. Yes, we are familiar with some of the same places!
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Comment by sheilada on March 9, 2013 at 6:46pm
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I can't wait for PIR!!! I just want to give him a great big hug!
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Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on March 9, 2013 at 10:04am
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Lala, I didn't even see the "Luv Grandma" until sheilada pointed that out. That is just precious!
I totally agree with diannep, ladies. Make sure that you do go to the airport with your new sailors. It is such a wonderful experience to see them off. You will be amazed at how many people will come up to them and thank them. It's so important that you be there with them for as long as you can and it's also so nice to see that people really do appreciate them, as well.
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Comment by diannep on March 9, 2013 at 9:56am
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Ladies: REMINDER: If your sailor tells you that they were told that families cannot meet them at the airports to wait with them for their planes to leave for A School, please know this is not true. We have heard this on the PIR groups off and on over the years, and checked it out. A lady whose son graduated yesterday posted this too...her sailor apparently was told this and she found the airports to be very "accommodating" to the sailors/families. That is what we have found in other groups too. The airport staff love and embrace their sailors/families....Chicago airports see tons of sailors pass through there each week! So, just know that you can visit at the airports with your sailors, and can obtain a gate pass (with ID) to wait at the gate with them. Extra special time with your sailors! They are detached from RTC once they leave that Command...so they are no longer under their authority. The USO at the airports is very helpful to the sailors/families
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That is beautiful Lala! I love the 'Luv Grandma' a keepsake for sure!
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Beautiful, Lala! She is going to love it!
Good Morning All!
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on March 9, 2013 at 1:59am
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I hope you don't mind but I just have to share what I have been working on all evening. Most of you know my Sailors are expecting a baby girl and they are home this weekend. We are having a baby shower tomorrow and I made a baby blanket with her name, Eastyn, on it. I can't share it on my page because then the surprised would be spoiled but on a private group she won't be able to see it lol. So I am sharing it with all my Navy Mom Friends :)
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Comment by Navy2011Mom on March 8, 2013 at 7:47pm
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Thanks so much for the info Dianne. I know my SR put the other son on the list, so we're all set there, I just wanted to be sure because I figured that wearing the dress uniform would be proper. Thought I should ask just in case. Thanks again!!!
Yes, I can't wait to see the two of them together again. Both in uniform yet!! I'm going to have to make sure I take lots of pictures because I don't know the next time they'll be together.
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Comment by maria_beaulieu on March 8, 2013 at 7:46pm
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Heads up I got 2 calls from my SR today Ship 13 Div 147 :) I love my fiancee he is truly amazing he said the division has gotten a lot better :) They got fitted/measured for there dress blues & whites yesterday and got wisdom teeth pulled out at the beginning of the week.
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I would think he would wear his dress uniform. He also needs to be on the guest list now, so just to remind you. It use to be that active duty/retired military didn't need to be on the lists, just had to have military ID. But now they have to be part of the guest list.
How wonderful that you will be there with your TWO SAILORS! HOOYAH!
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