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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.
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 Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on March 9, 2013 at 10:00am
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Hi ladies!
I'm Betsy and another "veteran" helping out on here. My youngest son is a CTT currently deployed on the USS John C. Stennis, aircraft carrier, which is based out of Bremerton, WA. My daughter's fiance just got out of the Navy this past August, where he had been an ET stationed on a nuke sub in Pearl Harbor, HI. Welcome!
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Comment by diannep on March 9, 2013 at 9:58am
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Ladies: REMINDER: If your sailor tells you that they were told that families cannot meet them at the airports to wait with them for their planes to leave for A School, please know this is not true. We have heard this on the PIR groups off and on over the years, and checked it out. A lady whose son graduated yesterday posted this too...her sailor apparently was told this and she found the airports to be very "accommodating" to the sailors/families. That is what we have found in other groups too. The airport staff love and embrace their sailors/families....Chicago airports see tons of sailors pass through there each week! So, just know that you can visit at the airports with your sailors, and can obtain a gate pass (with ID) to wait at the gate with them. Extra special time with your sailors! They are detached from RTC once they leave that Command...so they are no longer under their authority. The USO at the airports is very helpful to the sailors/families
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...snowing in Chicagoland again!
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Happy Day for her when she opens this gift, Lala! So cute...
I agree with Ochaos. DO NOT call the number back if you miss a call...sometimes, the RDC may be standing around the phones and will answer it. When you ask for your SR, he/she may get in trouble. They are not allowed to answer "ringing" phones. If it is likely that your SR will call your cell phone as opposed to a home phone, keep that cell plastered to your body...even when in the bathroom or when going out to get the mail. Many keep them in their bras just to make sure they don't miss a call. Calls are so random and can come at any time. My son happened to be in 2 different divisions when he was at bootcamp (he was asmoed (setback) for a week). His first division got a good number of calls (he was in that one for about 4-5 weeks), but his next division did not. So like ochoas said, calls are different from division to division....
Good Morning All!
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Comment by Melissa (Ship 3 Div 163) on March 9, 2013 at 8:58am
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Lala- that is beautiful!
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Thanks for the info about the calling card. I'm sure he was getting yelled at and just wasn't thinking. I will send it back with some more :)
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Comment by Sunshine Sandy on March 9, 2013 at 7:35am
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Melissa, our sons are together!
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Comment by ochaos on March 9, 2013 at 2:00am
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Love it Lala Ribbon Queen!! Congrats on the new addition!
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on March 9, 2013 at 1:57am
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I hope you don't mind but I just have to share what I have been working on all evening. Most of you know my Sailors are expecting a baby girl and they are home this weekend. We are having a baby shower tomorrow and I made a baby blanket with her name, Eastyn, on it. I can't share it on my page because then the surprised would be spoiled but on a private group she won't be able to see it lol. So I am sharing it with all my Navy Mom Friends :)
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