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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".
Comment Wall
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Comment by Josh'smom on March 6, 2013 at 10:48pm
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LaLa Ribbon Queen - thanks for designing the ribbons for us. They are amazing.
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Comment by Sandi-mom of 3 serving on March 6, 2013 at 10:41pm
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UBU's MOM - I think all sub guys go to CT for training. That is were my son went when he was done with BC. Now he is in WA.
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Comment by melindy on March 6, 2013 at 10:08pm
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If anyone's husband is feeling left out... There is a Navydads.com website for them
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Comment by kymberlin on March 6, 2013 at 9:32pm
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AndrewB/Mom.... Yes, that is true. I get out of work at 2pm ct this week, so I get to check fairly early. I am worried though. His first phone call was full of tears and very difficult for me to hear. Since they wrote the day after, I hope he got better in that time ? Just my prayer that he was just emotional that day. Selfish on my part, I know.
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Comment by UBU'sMom on March 6, 2013 at 9:27pm
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HI all, I will be at Sarge's meet and Greet on Thursday night. Good to know about the pay check...got a bill to pay also.
40inthebox..how do you know your son will got to CT right after boot camp? My son wants to be on a sub also...i assumed he would go to Charleston SC or Jacksonville Fl. Not that it matters much...but the g.f. is looking for places to stay down south, not in CT. :)
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Comment by AndrewB/Mom on March 6, 2013 at 8:46pm
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Girls of ship 11 div 156 we got our calls together and we will proably get letters at the same time too lol
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Comment by diannep on March 6, 2013 at 8:24pm
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Sandi, their first pay usually comes within 3-4 weeks of arrival. They are paid on the 1st and the 15th of the month. If they opened a Navy Fed account, they are paid a day earlier.
40inthebox: Lala Ribbon Queen (one of our N4Moms veterans) is the creator of the beautiful PIR ribbons. She posted about 8 below this one (ribbons in the icon). Go to her page and contact her if you are interested in ordering. She has pictures of them on her page.
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Does anyone know when our SR's might see their first pay check? Have a bill that needs paid this month and want to make sure i can get it paid.
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Comment by boompa on March 6, 2013 at 8:09pm
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Gerald's mom: My son is homesick too. He said to send lots of letters. lol So I did! I did not get a letter today. I am hoping for tomorrow.
I told my son that home is boring. Not much going on. Same-o-same-o. That made him feel a little better. I am going to Sarge's M.A.G. although I am in Division 156. But it sounds like our kids train together. So I look forward to meeting you. Send a friend request, if ya want
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Comment by 40intheboxShip11Div155 on March 6, 2013 at 7:49pm
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What are the ribbons people are talking about?
My son will be going to A school in CT for subs after bootcamp. Anyone else?
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