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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!
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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
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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.
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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."
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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 diannep on March 19, 2013 at 8:59am
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Good Morning All!
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Comment by D'sMomMary on March 19, 2013 at 8:59am
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melindy, my husband brought me in the first blossom off our cherry tree yesterday, and my neighborhood is full of birdsong! Where we live, winter is just a little chillier than spring though (typically, anyways, last winter was pretty brutal) Love the Pacific Northwest!
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Comment by melindy on March 19, 2013 at 8:28am
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@ellen0502 love the picture this morning!
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Good Morning!
Has anyone seen signs of Spring coming? We got 5inches of snow yesterday and it is 17degrees- with windchill -1 now. Ugh!
Would love 50-60 for PIR
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Comment by Debi on March 19, 2013 at 7:28am
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Good Morning everyone! 30 days and counting!!! Boompa if you can bring some cooler CA weather that would be great! The way it's looking right now we'll be in our winter best for PIR if this weather keeps up! 80's might be a wee bit warm especially for our SR's in their dress blues but a nice upper 60 low 70 would be nice..can you arrange that? :)
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Comment by AndrewB/Mom on March 19, 2013 at 6:55am
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Good Morning Ladies! Hope everyone is good and have a wonderful day! The last 2 days for Div156 has been wonderful! What a great group of guys!
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Comment by ellen0502 on March 19, 2013 at 6:06am
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Good morning!
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Comment by ttrbikergirl on March 19, 2013 at 12:16am
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sorry cal should be call
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as others have i received a second beautiful cal from my son as we talked he mentioned they wouldnt call for awhile because the are going to start hell week after telling him how we love him we know he can do anything he sets his mind to do and we are proud of him. Then i thought how much all of us will be silently sending our SR's positive thoughts and love as we wait for those calls again
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on March 18, 2013 at 11:17pm
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If you guys are running out of things to write about try writing a letter from a family pet :) Here is one I wrote from our cat lol.
The letter to my Sailor from our cat was hilarious. Our cat is huge and needs to loose some weight and when our Sailor was home she was in charge of feeding him. She kept the bowl full all the time. I talked to the vet and had "special" food and was measuring out what he could have twice a day. The cat "Shadow" was not happy with his rations and kept going to my Sailors bedroom door begging for food. He searched for her all the time. So maybe write your recruit a letter from the family pet J Here is the letter I sebt….. “Dear Loran, since you left everyone here has gone crazy. They are starving me and they don’t understand my needs. I insist that you talk some sense into them right now. If not you are going to have to come home and take care of this in person. I just can’t take it anymore. It is like they don’t care about me. You are the only one that understands my needs. Why did you leave anyway? I know you think you are all grown up and you need to spread your wings like Charlie (our bird) but why didn’t you take me with you. Is this a financial problem? Do they not have the money to buy my food, because the big guy could use a few less Cheeseburgers if you know what I mean? Please let me know if you are going to take care of this problem. Charlie is looking mighty tasty!!! BTW, I overheard them talking and saying you were at boot camp and I know you LOVE shoes but did you really need to go to camp in a foreign state just to get a pair of boots? They do sell those at the mall right? I hope you come to your senses soon, my tummy is growling and no it is not purring that they hear!!!
Yours Truly,
Shadow
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