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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 04/19/2013 TG 23 7 Divisions (151-156, 923)
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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 04/19 /2013. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 62
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013
WELCOME to PIR 04/19/2013!
~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 AndrewB/Mom on March 9, 2013 at 2:34pm
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where on this wesite do I find the questionaire-can not find it
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Comment by Debi on March 9, 2013 at 1:59pm
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AndrewB/Mom I know how it is. Believe me. A letter will come!! Have you tried sending your SR one of the questionnaires that are in the link above? I did that and sent the self addressed stamped envelope with it. I know I sent stamps with my SR but from what it sounds like from the few lines he did write on the bottom, they are very very busy. At least I got some info via the questionnaire and I know it made it easier on my SR so all he had to do was circle :)
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Comment by S02 DIV923 mommamac on March 9, 2013 at 1:41pm
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AndrewB mom, I am with you... on another note I have a question maybe one of the notsonew folks can answer. The last 4 digit number behind the zip code on my SR's address he sent on the form letter, is different than all the ones they show for ship 2 on the navy sites. I am praying he is receiving my letters but this concerns me. Anyone got an answer?
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Hi Everyone! No letter today! I know I am the cheery one all the time but I just feel bummed! I need a call or letter! I know I sound selfish but I really need it-I am booking my flight today but I feel alittle down today
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Comment by CodysMom on March 9, 2013 at 1:10pm
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Baby Blanket is beautiful, have fun today at the shower...
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Lala the blanket is beautiful! It will be treasured forever.
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Thank you Diannep! Your information is invaluable..Now just get that clock moving FASTER!!! It's been in the 40's for a LONG time!! lol
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Comment by Momo1968 on March 9, 2013 at 10:59am
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diannep-- Is there a limit to the number of family members that can stay with them at the airport? I also want to thank you for all the info you give us. You are a comfort.
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Comment by diannep on March 9, 2013 at 9:57am
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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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Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on March 9, 2013 at 9:55am
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Good Morning and hope everyone has a great Saturday!
Lala, just beautiful!
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