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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!
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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.
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.
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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."
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This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on April 18, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 53
Latest Activity: Feb 18, 2015
~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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Leach73,
If your Sailor will be flying out on Saturday, you get to take your Sailor with you right after PIR, but ours just needed her wallet and she also had surprised her sister and I with buying us Division t-shirts to give to us. So we hung out at the NEX on base waiting for her.
If your Sailor has A school at Great Lakes, then that's when you get some hugs and pics in the graduation hall, leave RTC, and come back later in the afternoon.
Ok, so once the graduation ceremony is done and we get to see our Sailor, do we leave RTC, and then come back to get them later?
If your Sailor will fly out to a new base on PIR weekend and you plan to meet them at the airport you should mail this info on an index card to your recruit. Once they get their itinerary they should fill it out and then keep it to give it to you at PIR. They won't have this info in time to mail it back to you. When they go back to their ship and rack to check out remind them to get this. This will keep you from ending up at the wrong airport. :)
Please fill this out when you get your flight itinerary/orders and then give it to us at PIR. Do not mail it.
Airport________________________
Airline________________________
Gate Number___________________
Flight Number _________________
Flight time_____________________
Layover_______________________
Arrival time____________________
You're welcome leach :) Spencer'smom i sent you the info :)
I, like CatMom, also elected to use the shuttle even though we had a rental car. Had no regrets!
We didn't have to wait for the shuttle afterwards, there was one waiting, but some may have to wait a few minutes for one to get back....
Some elect to drive their cars, but park off-base (can park down the street at the train station (paid parking I believe though). It is a 1/2 mile walk or so to RTC....then once you have your sailor, you can walk down, hop the train if you want or get your car and leave. Others have had no issues driving, parking on RTC, and leaving when they are ready.
HINT FOR THOSE DRIVING AND PARKING ON BASE:
On Buckley, main drag to RTC, stay to the left (car line for RTC on your right). Bypass RTC .... turn around when you can and head back from the opposite way....easy left turn into RTC.
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Leach73,
I had a rental car too, but chose to leave it at the hotel and take Sarge's shuttle to and from PIR. He brought us right up to the gate to walk onto base. We were greeted by handsome Navy Sailors with smiles on their faces! Then we walked about 50 yards to the graduation hall entrance, got checked in against the Access List, then got our preferred seating on the first level against the back wall.
After PIR, we went to the small NEX and waited for my Sailor daughter to come back with her wallet. The lot to the right of the NEX is where all the shuttles/taxis were waiting. I called SARGE's number to make sure I would take one of his 847-212-0246 back to the hotel. All the other ones were trying to wave me down...
You can print your gate pass to have "just in case" if you drive to PIR and if you want to personally drive your Sailor back to RTC in the evening. I put our Sailor daughter on a Sarge shuttle so I can get some rest to meet her at the airport later~~ Go to Sarge's Meet & Greet to get driving tips and ideas on what to possibly do, plus meet other moms from here~~
If you book Sarge, make sure you ARE getting on his shuttle in the morning--ask if the driver is Sarge or one of his drivers. His mini-van's usually say Sarge's on the side. They only charge $3.00 per person going there and $3.00 coming back. Some of the other shuttle drivers not with Sarge will insist on collecting the full $6.00 for going and coming back (which is WRONG), then you can't find that taxi again... Just have to be alert.
Hello All,
"Pour out your hearts to Him,
for God is our refuge."
Psalm 62:8
veteran moms - can you give pros/cons of taking shuttle bus from Navy Lodge to PRI and driving your own car?
I will have my own car but am not sure whether to shuttle or drive. If I print out my gatepass, am I required to use it?
Spencer's mom - that BS21 def. moves you to tears. Unexplainable.
Lala - thanks for taking my order! I can't wait for us (my husband, sons, and I) to wear our ribbons with pride!
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