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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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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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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 Debi on April 20, 2013 at 4:40pm
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Hey all! PIR was amazing don't you agree? Thanks to all those Sailors in div 923, they were amazing!
I hope all said happy goodbyes today to their sailors. I fortunately or unfortunately will not be saying my goodbyes anytime soon. My Sailor is on medical hold waiting for a waiver to join his buddies at NUKE school. He found out on Wednesday that he had been cleared for general duty but still needed another waiver for the NUKE program and possible Sub program. So now he sits in the THU in Ship 5 for up to 2 months. Hopefully he'll be able to put a boot on someone so they can get this processed faster than that! On the bright side, we live in Milwaukee and it is an approved Liberty distance from GL so we picked up our sailor this morning and brought him home for the day. WE will return him tonight and then repeat tomorrow morning/evening. If he's still around next week, he's going to bring some of his friends back here next weekend to give them a break from GL. At least he can have his phone, laptop, hand held game system and such. He also said the racks are more comfortable than in the recruit ship :)
Soo fair winds and following seas to all your sailors as we await my sailor's fate :)
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Comment by markswifey on April 20, 2013 at 9:51am
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Ooppppsss! Still not used to calling him sailor. :)
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Comment by diannep on April 20, 2013 at 8:46am
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Good Morning, All! Hope some are enjoying airport visits today with your sailors, and others are enjoying time with your GL A School sailors!
Rejoicing today for the city of Boston and hoping that the tireless fearless people who helped to bring this horrible situation to a close are getting some much-needed rest! Prayers continue for the victims/families affected by this horrible tragedy....a nation is behind you!
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Comment by kymberlin on April 20, 2013 at 6:08am
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@markswifey.... you mean your sailor!
what a wonderful man. I enjoyed it so much. keep in touch!
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Big thanks to kymberlin for taking pictures of my SR and posting it right away so i can see. You just don't know how much happiness to brought to my family. God bless your heart!
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Comment by CatMom509 on April 19, 2013 at 11:58pm
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Before you all take off, remember to join other groups here on Navy for Moms besides your Sailors' A school and later C school. There's ones involving their Navy rating, state ones, regional ones, Christian Chat (800 + members started by EV) and loads of others. Keep involved and keep sharing your knowledge!!
CONGRATULATIONS to all the new Sailors!! HOOYAH!!
Leavin' this group now~~
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Comment by D'sMomMary on April 19, 2013 at 8:48pm
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Yes!! And being able to just shoot off a text to them is great (I know, aren't we spoiled by technology??) My current Sailor getting ready to leave BC is in Ricky Heaven right now so I've been able to talk to her. Leaving her alone right now so she can chat with our boy :)
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Comment by RyansMum (MM/Nuke) on April 19, 2013 at 8:42pm
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This day was awesome! We totally relaxed and laughed and ate and napped. Perfect day! A little tough giving him back, but at least we can talk and visit in the future.
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Comment by ellen0502 on April 19, 2013 at 7:47pm
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oops fixed ...LOL
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Actually, you changed it to "Alimni" ;)
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