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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 Dagmar (Ship 03 Div 143) on February 28, 2013 at 9:22pm
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I got a letter!
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Comment by MomOf3 on February 28, 2013 at 7:44pm
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Still no "official letter"!!! And the letters I mailed this morning are still in the mailbox. I'm beginning to think the problem is on my end here with the post office. Big pouty lip :0(
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on February 28, 2013 at 7:35pm
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vujmac, I have heard it is taking a while to get approved for this website. how long did it take you to get approved?
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Comment by diannep on February 28, 2013 at 4:51pm
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Black or Silver watches, no gold (for officers). Many give these as graduation gifts!
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Comment by vujmac on February 28, 2013 at 10:07am
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thanks diannep for the quick reply. another one, are they allowed to wear wristwatches in A school, and if so, what kind. thanks again
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Yep, NO CARE PACKAGES! Anything bigger than a regular letter will be opened in front of the RDCs. Believe me...they want NO extra attention from their bosses! Sooo...take the care packages up to PIR and let them enjoy your goodies back at the hotel! If staying for A School in GL, they can actually take them over there once they have moved onto that base (right after PIR) and have had Liberty with you.
Good Morning!
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Yes, vulmac: He should be able to take that back with him once he has had Liberty with you (he will have moved over to GL A School base by then). Can have his phone too and a few civilian clothes. Can't wear those yet, but will have them when he can. Might want to ask him exactly what he wants you to bring up for him. You can always take it back home if he isn't allowed to have something (he will know by Liberty with you).
Good Morning!
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hi, good morning everyone. glad to be accepted in the group. i have learned so much information just by reading all discussions about the PIR 4/12/13. i just have a question, can our SR use his laptop when going to A school in GL? i plan to bring it to him on graduation day.
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That is so exciting! I am happy for you. Hope to get a letter from my SR tomrrow fingers are crossed.
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Comment by Fishing Quilter on February 27, 2013 at 11:55pm
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Got my first letter from my SR today! Happy Dance! She cracked me up ... she said she "... had the chance to be RPOC (1st in charge after our Petty Officers), but I turned it down to be head of the HEAD PO (#1 in charge of bathrooms) :) thought you would approve & have a little giggle for me." My first thought was, "OMG! My baby joined the US Navy to scrub toilets! lol" Well, I did tell whatever she does to do it to the very best of her ability. And I did teach my children how to scrub a toilet successfully, so, GO, GIRL, GO!
She also told me not to send her any care packages/cookies! I'm a baker, and she knows I would want to do that so she could share with everyone, but I also know better (thank you N4M website)! I think I'll have to make cookies to take to PIR ... maybe some great cutouts of little white navy hats, or anchors or something ... we'll have to see! I can't believe there's ONLY 43 days left! lol
Hope you all had a great day today, too!
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