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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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:
Events
**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.
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 04/25/2014 TG 24 - 9 Divisions (149-156, and 924)
Information
This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on April 25, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 69
Latest Activity: Apr 12, 2016
WELCOME to PIR 04/25/2014! PLEASE See the PAGES section for Informational Posts about BC and PIR. PAGES is underneath the Members Photos. PLEASE scroll down this page here to find the Comment Box to post a reply to the PIR GROUP
~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"
Discussion Forum
Ship 11 (USS Kearsarge) Divisons 153 and 154 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Lizzie_Corpsmanwife May 17, 2014. 85 Replies 2 Likes
Basket Project--PIR 4/25 (Sarge Meet & Greet)
Started by Lainey. Last reply by Jennyclean154 Apr 27, 2014. 76 Replies 3 Likes
Ship 13 (USS Marvin Shields) Division 151 and 152 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Karin (Ship 13 Div 151) Apr 23, 2014. 9 Replies 1 Like
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 924
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by PeaCoatMama Apr 23, 2014. 11 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 155 and 156 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Tuttismimi Ship 11 Div 154 Apr 23, 2014. 30 Replies 3 Likes
Where are you staying for PIR!
Started by SpunkyNavyMom2014 (PIR 4/25/14). Last reply by Tuttismimi Ship 11 Div 154 Apr 22, 2014. 23 Replies 1 Like
^^^^ BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST ! ^^^^^
Started by diannep. Last reply by Jennyclean154 Apr 21, 2014. 14 Replies 1 Like
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Apr 21, 2014. 19 Replies 4 Likes
Ship 09 (USS John F Kennedy) Divisions 149 and 150 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by schotzi Apr 20, 2014. 19 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Lizzie_Corpsmanwife on April 22, 2014 at 12:24pm
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Ladies,
I understand you are anxious to find out about our SRs and get that call, but just FYI my friend DID NOT get her I'm a sailor call until Wednesday at 7pm, on her way to Illinois. So if you don't get a call don't worry about it there are many reasons why someone won't call. Hope this helps calm the nerves :)
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Comment by Traysea on April 22, 2014 at 11:53am
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This is what lemonelephant posted regarding time with our Sailor on Friday: Note to others. the 10 minutes with her Sailor was because her Sailor stayed in GL and had to check in across the street. That "10 minutes" has been longer at times, but remember if that applies to your Sailor, you will get to spend time with your Sailor after s/he checks in across the street and you are able to spend time each day of the weekend with your Sailor. If your Sailor flies out to "A" School or training, then you will be able to spend from about 10:30 when Liberty is called until sometime around 8 or 9 pm that night with your Sailor and then will be able to meet him/her at the airport the next day. See PIR Day and Liberty during PIR Weekend.
I hope I didn't over step lemonelephant for reposting your comment.
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Comment by programs ship 11 division 154 on April 22, 2014 at 11:42am
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I am officially losing it , please tell me why I am calling my cell phone from my job phone seeing if it is going to ring. LORD HELP ME PLEASE I AM ABOUT TO BUST. I just saw the post from miss mary E my heart is filled and the tears are flowing - are we only going to get 10 minutes??? Or do they have to go get there things and then come with us? Does anyone know how long they will be able to spend with us on Friday?
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Comment by Jennyclean154 on April 22, 2014 at 11:37am
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I am loving all these lovely comments. I can't wait to see my son!! I am looking so forward to meeting some of you St the meet and greet. God Bless you and your families.
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Comment by CatMom509 on April 22, 2014 at 11:26am
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Here's Part 2 from MissMaryE~
Part 2
Up bright and early Friday morning was easy! We were so excited to see our sailor, to finally get to be a part of all he had worked so hard for...
The hall is ominous in size, and depending on when you arrive, it is filled with excitement, love, appreciation and with the reverence of respect. You are taught of the rich Navy history, the culture and what it means to be "Navy Proud and Navy Strong"
The drums, the bands, the flags, the music I grew up listening to, never knowing never understanding they were the very songs that were associated with the military branches...we're amazing...and then after all the fan fair, the waiting, the entertainment, they announce the divisions were to prepare for inspection... The garage door rolls up, and with the bands playing and the drums pounding... All the graduating division March In!!!
They looked amazing!! They sounded awesome!!! They marched IN STEP, together as a division! My heart was overjoyed with pride, love and appreciation, for every young man and young women who had arrived at boot camp, scared , intimidated and homesick , because at that moment they had become Navy Sailors!!
His division was the only division to receive a "divisional- ITE," and yet it was the only division to receive all 5 of the achievement/challenge flags! As his division was announced to crowd erupted in volume, the only division to receive the highest level of noise from the crowd.
When Liberty was called... We found our sailor! He looked different, he stood different. He was a Sailor, he was Navy Sailor strong, and all my worrying, was just that...worrying.
You only have 10mins with your Sailor, before they are instructed to leave... Enjoy them, embrace them and take lots of pics! As I walked out and followed the side walk back to the parking garage, filed in front of me for at least a half of a mile, was a sea of white hats and black coats! It's was sobering. A memory that will forever be in my mind! They, the newest graduating Sailors, no longer belonged to us, the parents, they belong to the Navy, their dreams and ALL they had been prepared to fight for...
To all the mothers here... To all those that spend their days worrying, hoping for and investing time in writing ALL those letters... Please know this... Your Sailor LOVES you, and deep down inside of each of them is this daily drive to succeed, so that you will share with them, ALL that it means to be a Sailor in the US Navy.
My husband and I are so proud of my son, and so proud to be going home to our new grandson... Our hearts are filled with such joy and excitement we can barely handle ourselves! These two millstones will be forever be linked together, in time, as simply an "AMAZING weekend."
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Good Morning in this Earth Day!
"All the Earth is the LORD's, and
He has set the world in order."
I Samuel 2:8
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Comment by SilviaDC'smom on April 22, 2014 at 10:11am
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navymama ~ OH my Gosh!! I so would have had one lol, glad as is ok..
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Bluediva24 ~ glad you are here! M&G will be great...cant wait to finally put faces to the beautiful ladies that have shown me so much love and support.
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Good morning!
unable to rest last night as Today is the "call day" for some of our SR's. I plan to burn my blue candle until everyone crosses the finish line. (lt's been burning since yesterday!) GO PIR 4/25! #DIV155
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Comment by Bluediva24 on April 22, 2014 at 9:48am
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Good Morning, I am so mad that I recently found this site. Anxiously waiting to see my husband. My mother-in-law, little sister-in-law, and myself will all be in attendance for the meet and greet. Can't wait to meet you all!
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