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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.
OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
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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."
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 UBU'sMom on March 5, 2013 at 11:26pm
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It feels like my son has been gone a month...i miss him terribly!
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Comment by kmc1973( ship 3/div154) on March 5, 2013 at 10:20pm
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momofsix ship14div151 YES, I feel the exact same way. I lost my mother last year and 10 months later I lost my father, both to cancer. I told my husband when my son left I cried and sobbed so much like when my parents passed away. I was the only way I knew to describe how terrible I felt and the feeling I was feeling when he left. So yes I know EXACTLY what you are saying. I have been a bit better now that I can write my son and that I finally got to hear his voice this past Sunday. But honestly I did not think I would ever quite crying. Now I am just focused on the day till we see him and how proud I will be of him. And oh goodness I guess I will be doing ALOT of crying then so...I need to invest in some water proof mascara:)
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on March 5, 2013 at 10:04pm
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momofsix, you are correct. My Sailors are no longer in boot camp. My daughter had PIR in July of 2010 and my son-in-law in October 2010. My daughter is an AO3 and SIL is IT3 both based in VA. We only live 7 hours away so we go see them every chance we get and they have been able to come home about 3 times a year so far. Of course it helped that my Sailors ship was in dry dock and my SIL was shore duty so neither of them have been deployed. My daughter has been out on the ship for training and work-ups and has been several other places with her squadron but was never away for more than a couple months. Now that she is pregnant she will be changing to shore duty and her hubby will be sea duty and will likely deploy. Hopefully not until after the baby is born but we all know when duty calls they have to go :(
I see a lot of talk about baseball and it seems way to cold for baseball to already be starting. I think these kids need training camp in FL lol.
Thanks so much everyone for your interest in the ribbons. made a sample this evening so you guys can see what it would look like and then if you like it I can add it to my website for you guys to order. I would do it all as a PIR group instead of as DIV's because sometimes a DIV may only be represented on this site by a couple of people. If you send me a friend request and put a message with it saying "sample pic" I will send you the pic. Thanks so much :)
BTW Josh'smom the sample has your son's name and Div since that is the first one I was able to figure out :)
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Comment by Josh'smom on March 5, 2013 at 9:54pm
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Momofsix - I'm waiting to hear back for Lala Ribbon Queen on how to go about ordering the ribbons and details of cost.
I too miss talking to my son everyday.
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Comment by mynavygirl2 on March 5, 2013 at 9:24pm
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sorry everyone. just crazy with work and other kids!!! i know we all are! anyway, does anyone know "by when" do we need to order the ribbons, how much they are, and how many can we get?
I hear you tjcsmom and kymberlin.... you know, she went to college for a semester, but at least we could still talk every day. it's very hard to not pick up the phone and try to call her. this is how i felt when my grandmother passed!!! anyone else???
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Comment by kymberlin on March 5, 2013 at 9:02pm
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I agree. Feels like months!
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Comment by TJCsMom on March 5, 2013 at 8:56pm
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UBU'sMom, seems like a lot longer than 12 days ago for me! What about you?
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TJCsMom, my son shipped out on 2/20 from Charlotte NC
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Comment by RyansMum (MM/Nuke) on March 5, 2013 at 8:49pm
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Hi Guys! I'm going to friend you guys because sometimes I lose people in the forum discussions.
Kym I'm glad you're better! I put those letters in the mail today too and it made me feel happier!
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Ok, Ryansmum, Josh'smom TJC'smom and Kym (Traivons mom ) are all in the same place.!!! Ok ok , I;m slow today !
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