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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 Tinkerbell on March 20, 2013 at 8:17pm
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My SR responded to all 6 of the questionnaire's I sent him! I received them today :). We also received a letter from him too!
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Comment by melindy on March 20, 2013 at 6:59pm
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Yea! Letters came today, too. One for me, my husband and little brother :)
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Comment by Debi on March 20, 2013 at 5:44pm
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Happy day! Came home and found 2 letters for my husband and me and one for his brothers! Sounds like all is going well...doesn't know when his battle stations will be but they were doing marlin spike tomorrow.
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Comment by diannep on March 20, 2013 at 12:54pm
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TOO FUNNY, Lala! Maybe its time to get a "female" groundhog for more accuracy! Of course, she would be checking with us on N4Moms to find out how long winter will last. We know--- --everything! :-)
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Comment by aggiemae58 on March 20, 2013 at 11:36am
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ATTENTION LADIES………I would like to tell you something that I am so happy about. Some of you that know Recruit Man , well he sent me an inbox last night and told me that he is flying in to see all of us!!! at our soon to be Sailors PIR. I wish that I could put him on my access list to get him in but, I am filled up. He will be at the Sarge’s Meet and Greet on Thursday and he will spend time with my family. So, if anyone would like to see him and say "Thank you" for all that he does, it would be great. On a personal note from me, this man goes beyond call of duty, for giving out calling cards, sending care packages and updating a list for sailors that are not getting mail. My son was nervous before he left for boot camp, Recruit Man sent him an email with encouraging words. Whenever I need him he is there for me day and night, and I am totally honor to call him a friend of mine. With all the friends that I have made and him coming and my son’s PIR, this is going to be the best weekend ever!!!
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Marie that is soooooo great!! I can't wait to meet Recruit man! Between him, Sarge, diannep, lemonelephant and the other moderators on N4M I don't know what I would have done to stay sane! Thank You all!!!
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Comment by TJCsMom on March 20, 2013 at 10:57am
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Woohoooo!!! We're in the 20s (for countdown days!!) Yes, indeed!!!!
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on March 20, 2013 at 10:33am
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I saw on this on the news and facebook and thought you all might like it lol.
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Comment by RyansMum (MM/Nuke) on March 20, 2013 at 10:23am
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Buried in snow again and supposedly another storm headed out way for Thursday! I'm so sick of snow, but that countdown clock makes me very happy!
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Still haven't found spring in Wisconsin!
Hoping it arrives before PIR, tired of heavy coats and boots
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