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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:
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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".
Comment Wall
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on March 12, 2013 at 8:20am
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If you are thinking about getting the challenge coins you should really check out the one's that one of our mentors on this site designs himself. They are so awesome. Here is just part of his post I found on facebook and he has an $8.00 special just for this month :)
For the next 3 weeks (until 31 March) those that are purchasing, or have purchased, a “ship” boot camp challenge coin, will have the opportunity to obtain our “March $8 Special". These challenge coins are offered at a ridiculously low price of $8 each (these coins normally sell for upwards of $15 - $20 each). Limit 3.
How do you take advantage of this deal?
1. Go to www.PIRGifts.com
2. Purchase a Navy boot camp challenge coin for your specific “ship”.
3. After your purchase, go back to www.PIRGifts.com to purchase the special that is
named:
* MARCH $8 SPECIAL * ~ Navy Challenge Coins ~”
4. Click on link to view all available coins.
5. After selecting the desired coins (limit 3), note the item #(s).
6. Select “Make Offer” to get your special price of $8. Remember, you MUST have
purchased a “ships” challenge coin to get this special pricing.
7. Under make offer “pop up”, enter the following:
- Enter desired quantity. (limit 3)
- Enter offer price of $8.
- Indicate item #(s) under “add message to seller”
8. Click “review offer”, then click “submit”.
9. The offer will be reviewed by PIRGifts and accepted if a “ships” challenge coin was
previously purchased, otherwise standard pricing would be counter-offered.
Again, I personally would like to thank you for your purchases and support of our mission.
Sincerely,
Craig (Proud Navy Sailor!
Check us out at www.PIRGifts.com
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Good Morning everyone :)
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Comment by Chele PS mom on March 12, 2013 at 6:14am
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Cfritts: I'm getting my SR the Navy Challenge coins for her Ship. It will start her collection for each ship she is stationed to. Here's one link: http://www.priorservice.com/usnachco.html
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Comment by ochaos on March 11, 2013 at 7:13pm
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My daughter and I decided to make my sons room into an exercise area for us, we are replacing the flooring this week and are thinking about paint colors but will wait a bit until we paint. My recruit packed up most of his room before he left but not all of it so I have been dealing with the stuff that he did not.
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Comment by 5boys on March 11, 2013 at 2:50pm
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Ugh....We started that process before mine left. I decided to redecorate his room in Navy style decor, put all of his awards, congressional letters, Eagle Scout stuff and graduation picture up and use it as a guest room. But it then is still "his" room when he is home. :)
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It's really funny how comfortable I have gotten with my SR being gone. I know he is right where he will flourish! By last Monday (1 week after he left) when my co-workers asked how I was doing (with that silly guarded look,lol) I could honestly smile and say "I am going to be just fine! My son is going to excel,and all is well!"
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Good morning!
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Comment by diannep on March 11, 2013 at 8:01am
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Good Morning All!
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Remember that this journey is just as much about you being in training as it is for our recruits. Things change, schedules change, they can not always tell you everything, there will be times when you do not hear from them for a while, there will be ups and downs and everything in between, they will see people drop, leave the service, rollback and finish their training. Focus on today and learn not to worry about tomorrow. Always be encouraging and uplifting even when your heart is breaking, they do not need to be worrying about us and how we are dealing with things. This journey is a difficult one for the ones at home and not knowing what is going on and hard to grasp when you are still so new to it, relax and breathe and it will get better.
Live your life as normal as possible, come to this site for support but do not stress over phone calls, letters and how they are doing. Phone calls get missed or not made, it is not the end of the world even though it may feel like it at that moment. We have wonderful recruits and who are on a new journey in their life and we need to be okay with the not knowing what is going on and not hearing from them as this may happen from time to time during their time in the Navy, the sooner you are okay with this the better for them as they do not need to know that we are stressing or worried about them.
This is the job that they have chosen and some of us have jobs that do not allow us to have phone calls at work, the same holds true for them, they will call when they can and after BC it does get better but there may be times when it gets worse. We are so used to knowing everything about what they are doing and having instant contact, that it can be hard to break that habit but it will get better, hang in there and before you know it you will be at PIR.
If you are sad, lonely, missing them, angry or many other emotions come here where we know how you feel and we can lift you up.
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Yes, they do, but sometimes they may run out of space to store them. Some ladies on here will send a larger envelope to them to mail back their letters for safekeeping. Ask your SR in your next letter if you should send one.
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