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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".
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Comment by ellen0502 on March 2, 2013 at 2:16am
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Like Debi said, sounds like a bad printer cartridge, and if it was the cartridge the printer came with even more chance it was "bad."
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Comment by Debi on March 2, 2013 at 1:27am
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TJCsMom, sometimes its a faulty printer cartridge. Wrap it up..take it back and exchange it for a new one. I know the feeling of missing the kiddo. I had to do some major shoveling the other day and I was like..OH SURE NOW you're gone and it snows! He also did "dog duty" at night with the puppy and geriatric dog we have. Getting up at 4 am is not fun. I'm going to have to thank him in a letter for those little things he did to make my life a wee bit easier :)
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Comment by TJCsMom on March 2, 2013 at 12:16am
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Hi Ellen, no it seems to be printing and then the page spits out and it's blank! I've run all the tests and cleaners and alignments it tells me to, and it still doesn't work. Who knows!?!? Ty could've gotten it to work! He's been able to take things apart and get them running again since he was a child. Especially computers....he loves'em!! I don't think I'll mention this in a letter....he'll just say "I told you to do that a long time ago!" Lol
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TJCsmom, Does everything look like everything is going to print when you send it to the printer, but the printer just doesn't "go"?
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Thank you, Lala. I did not get it to work. Tomorrow, I may have to buy another one. It's just me here now. If I can't fix it, I have to buy it. I also have my dryer pulled out and the back panel off to replace a fuse. Hopefully, I'll find that piece tomorrow, as well. It's been a rough week, to say the least. It's GOT to get better!! :)
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on March 1, 2013 at 11:33pm
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I'm so sorry TJCsMom, Sometimes it feels good to get it out of your system. Did you get the printer to work. If not try again tomorrow. Things usually seems a little better and easier with a new day :)
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Tonight, I'm missing my kid...really bad. He had been bugging me to replace the ink in my printer for weeks. Tonight, I went and bought it so I could type my letters to keep them from being so bulky. I can't get the stupid thing to print now. He is my computer guru and he would've known what to do. He could've gotten it to work. Now, I'm sobbing because...well, because I guess I need to.
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I hope everyone has a good weekend. Try to find something fun to do and stay busy. If you have little ones at home there are several things you can do to make this journey a little easier for the, Make a paper chain with a link for each day they have left in boot camp and let them remove one link each day. It will help them see that this is only temporary. Other have also put a quarter in a jar for every day left and each week allowed the child/children to use the money for an ice-cream cone or even for a special card to send to their recruit, gumballs or gummy bears in a jar work well too and they get a tiny little treat each day. So many things can make it a better experience for them :) Have a wonderful weekend :)
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It usually takes a week or sometime longer after the form letter to get a real letter. But hang in there and write every day. The letters are like gold for all the recruits :) I hope you all get letters very soon. The best days for letters are Wednesdays and Thursdays depending on where you live :)
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Comment by aggiemae58 on March 1, 2013 at 10:00pm
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sandi-mom of 3 serving: my son is in div.151 ship 14 too, i haven't received anything yet either,
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