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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.
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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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 04/24/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 62
Latest Activity: Aug 6, 2015
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~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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diannep,
Thanks for that final "OK" to pop pics here. My brain was going to sleep and I didn't want to lose my post to go check! :)
Good Day!!
"You are worthy, O Lord our God,
to receive glory and honor and power.
For You created all things."
Revelation 4:11
Still worried, haven't received a phone call or letter from my sailor. his sister got his first phone call and 1 letter Ship 14 Div 153
Just a suggestion re: letters to your SRs. When my son was there, I contacted a couple of his fav high school teachers who had been mentors to him after his dad died. Mind you, he had been out of high school for 5 yrs by then, even had his A.S. degree from college when entering the Navy, but I knew these ladies had such an impact on his life and we had stayed in touch. I asked if they would write him (one had a son in the Army so understood military!) and they did. He was quite touched by that. So be sure to ask family members, friends, mentors, anyone who had an impact on your SR's life to consider writing. Bootcamp is a challenging time for them, but the hardest part is being cut off from family/friends on a daily basis and missing everything that was normal to them. To get letters from people who are part of their "normal" means the world to them!
The final word after browsing, selecting and downloading pik on here is to hit "OK" at the bottom and it should come up!
Good Morning!
Brooke,
To post a picture here, first you have to save the pic to your own computer. Then click on the Image icon to the right of LINK. You can then Browse and click on a pic from your own Picture files. Click on Open. To resize it, on the pixels, you can go from larger to a smaller size, like 300. I forgot what the final word is to pop it into here~~
I think I saw my son. I copied and pasted the picture to a letter to my son with a big arrow that said, "Is this you?" lol. So I guess time will tell. Kiddo has legs like mine, though, and so did the kiddo in my picture. Oh, I miss my boy. I really do hope it's him.
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