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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
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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".
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Comment by Nurse navymom (ship 14 Div 162) on March 7, 2013 at 10:14pm
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Just got our letter today!!! Our son is Ship 14 Div 162!
Came here once we got a PIR date. Ecstatic to finally be able to send letters! I've been spending my time learning as much as I can on this site and it has all been do helpful! Thank you to everyone on these boards.
Sounds like alot of proud, excited families... All with the same journey!!!
Jodi
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Comment by JTFsubmom on March 7, 2013 at 10:10pm
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Ranibabi...my son is ship 13 div 159. So I'm thinking its probably 160... They will be brother divisions and train together.
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Comment by Paula (Ship 03 Div 164) on March 7, 2013 at 10:06pm
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Hi everyone! Got the form letter today. Yippee!! Ship 03 Division 164 (hence the profile name change). I am so elated to be able to mail him these letters!! I also feel a peace in just knowing exactly where he's at:):). Oh Happy Day!!
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Comment by ochaos on March 7, 2013 at 10:05pm
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If you are able try flying home on Monday that way you do not miss out on spending time with your recruit and sometimes it can be cheaper.
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If you are able try flying home on Monday that way you do not miss out on spending time with your recruit and sometimes it can be cheaper.
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I recommend that you wait a bit to book your flights as if they are going to be sent home or have an injury that can delay their PIR it will usually happen within the first few weeks. Most PIR as scheduled but one of my sons friends got delayed a week for injury and another got sent home after two weeks in bc due to something that I can not remember (it has been 2 1/2 years).
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Comment by Ranibabi on March 7, 2013 at 9:59pm
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Hi girls! So my hubby being who he put his return address as ship 13 div 160 but the address in side the form letter as ship 13 div 150... do you ladies have any idea which could be the right address? :)
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Comment by Chele PS mom on March 7, 2013 at 9:44pm
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So Mondays for me then? Only? THey can only send letters once a week?
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Got my box yesterday and form letter today. I plan to fly into Milwaukee as it is cheaper usually and will not book my flight until at least half way thru bc as that worked well when my last son was in BC, will probably stay at the Navy Lodge again but not sure.
Once you get a letter you can expect to receive letters from them that day every week, so mine will arrive on Thursdays.
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Comment by ellen0502 on March 7, 2013 at 8:51pm
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Chrissybear, You can take food and drink into the Drill Hall, remember you will be setting on bleachers. The Navy Lodge does a "sack breakfast" that includes bagel cream cheese, orange juice and a granola bar, we took ares with us.
No, your son cannot take his cell phone back to the RTC after PIR and before moving over to the other side for school. He can take it back with him Friday night after he has moved. Yes, he probably can take food back with him when he returns for the night, cookies not a problem other things might be.
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