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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
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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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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 04/26/2013 TG 24 - 11 Divisions (157-166 and 924)
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This Group is for those with sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 04/26/2013.
A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 82
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013
WELCOME to PIR04/26/2013!
~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 MomOf5 on March 20, 2013 at 10:42am
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Soccermom: from my understanding everyone 3 and up has to be on the access list as well as active, retired and military personnel with vaild id and limited to 4 total. Looks as thought that was changed at the beginning of this year.
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Comment by soccermom (ship13/div160) on March 20, 2013 at 10:35am
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Good morning, my son graduate 4/26 it say 4 guests, but there are 5 of us. Me, dad, little brother and sister and his older brother already in the navy. I read somewhere that active military can be there, Even though they are not on the list. Does anyone know this info? Or do we need to leave someone standing outside the hall?
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on March 20, 2013 at 10:27am
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Good morning everyone, Happy Spring!!!!
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Comment by diannep on March 20, 2013 at 8:08am
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Welcome, Proud Mamacita! Please look to the right and above of this page, under the MEMBERS photo box, for the PAGES section. Read through that info as that will answer many of your questions. But should you have more, please just ask on here! Also, check out the discussions above in the Forum and make sure to join your division discussion. But stay on this main page too because we N4Moms veterans don't have time to go through all of the discussions to catch questions, so we will be answering most of them here. We all are on about 6-8 PIR groups at a time, among other groups on N4Moms, so just don't have time to check everywhere! :-)
Glad you found us! Good Morning All!
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Comment by ProudMamacita on March 20, 2013 at 1:11am
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Hi there Jaz, she left March 4th
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HI all! my daughter is in Ship 11 Div. 165, and I am all new to this, so any guidance would be so helpful, as it is overwhelming. I have received the form letter this past weekend, however no call from my daughter..I know this is to be expected, I would appreciate your help :) thank you and great to meet you all.
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Comment by Melissa (Ship 3 Div 163) on March 19, 2013 at 10:04pm
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I like the blues :) can't wait to see my son in them
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My Sailor had to get special permission to not wear her dress blues for an inspection a couple weeks ago. Because she is pregnant and hers no longer fits. She would have had to buy the dress blue maternity uniform to wear for one inspection and would never have to wear it again. I'm glad she didn't have to spend that extra $$$$$ :) I am guessing she will have to get the Maternity Dress White uniform.
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The change date from Blues to Whites is 05/06. Just got this info today "straight from the horse's mouth!" Only for Zones 1 and 2 though. Not every base changes that day.
Yes, Melissa. Dress Blues for PIR for this group!
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Comment by ellen0502 on March 19, 2013 at 8:06pm
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You are correct diannep. The Navy Lodge is considered "on base", and is located in the family housing part of the base, but it is not in a gated or "guarded" area of the base, so you're free to come and go.
You do not have to carry a military ID to check in at this particular Navy Lodge, but the reservation has to be in your SRs name, because he/she is your sponsor.
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