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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!
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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
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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 8, 2013 at 11:34am
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They get a chance to make changes to the list when PIR get closer. Usually a couple weeks before graduation. So be sure and give them the names that should be on the list with correct spelling as shown on each person's ID. You could even write them on an index card and send it with your next letter so that they can have it when the time comes to update the list.
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Comment by JTFsubmom on March 8, 2013 at 11:33am
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Happy Friday #2....only 7 more to go! Missing my SR...but we got this!
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Comment by 5boys on March 8, 2013 at 10:54am
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Chele, I would definitely frame that!!!! :) That is the best thing ever.
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Comment by Melissa (Ship 3 Div 163) on March 8, 2013 at 10:46am
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Chele Ship 12 Div 157 that is sweet. It's nice to get that form letter with their handwriting. My son has terrible handwriting and this was way better than I have ever seen. Good things are happening to our kids ;)
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Comment by Chele PS mom on March 8, 2013 at 9:23am
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Dianne: The form letter has 'Momma' as the first guest listed. I should tell her change it? I am having it framed by the way. lol
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Comment by diannep on March 8, 2013 at 9:15am
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ochaos: Yes, like FTLW posted, RTC has changed alot of rules since you were last on. No more adding names to other SRs' lists, no more "extras" in at PIR--they cannot even get on base to wait elsewhere, if your name is not on the final guest list, you will not get in. They also want names on the list matching name on ID. They now determine how many guests can go per sailor by number of divisions in a PIR group...either 3 or 4. Be sure to look at the upcoming grad page on RTC to see these changes.
God Bless your family for having so many who are serving their country!
Good Morning All!
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YAY for letters. So happy to see so many getting letters this week. If your recruit seems down, sad, or homesick in those first couple of letters try not to worry. It is very normal and it will get better with each letter. The first line in my first letter from my daughter said "Hi Mom, I cried myself to sleep the first night." Well I can tell you I started bawling and couldn't even read the rest of the letter until my hubby read it and said she was good. I just wanted to go get her. But each letter was better than the last and by the time PIR was there she very happy and said boot camp wasn't bad at all :) If they are really upset about something in a letter try to remember that several days have passed since it was written and everything is most likely better by the time you get the letter. As always no news is good news as hard as that is to deal with. We are all here for you when you need us {{{{{HUGS}}}}}
Welcome back ochaos, 3 times? wow that is crazy. Good to see you here again :) Lots of changes since last time you were here and we don't like them but sadly there's not much we can do about them :(
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Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on March 8, 2013 at 1:07am
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No, sorry, they do not allow recruits to add someone else's guest to their Access list. It is against RTC policy.
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Comment by Momma Kim(Ship 14 DIV 161) on March 8, 2013 at 12:41am
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Excited about getting our letter today! my son Ship 14 DIV 161. Ready to get the letters going! Just hope he has time to write back!
Debbie( ship 14 DIV 161) I see our SR are in the same group!
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Comment by ochaos on March 7, 2013 at 11:50pm
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Hi diannep - it is good to be back on this journey again. This should be my last to enter the military, I think 3 of them in is enough and none of the other 3 are interested in it.
As far as getting a fifth in for PIR - I know before, if someone in their division did not need to use all four or if they were not having anyone come to PIR they could put down a name for your recruit to get extra people there. Not sure if that is still allowed, you would just have to know the name of the SR that you were listed under.
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