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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.

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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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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.

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ALUMNI OF PIR 05/10/2013 TG 26 11 Divisions (177-186 and 926)

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This PIR Group is for those members that have loved ones who will be graduating Boot Camp on 05/10/2013. A place to gather information, share concerns and get support as your Recruits start their Navy careers as future Sailors.

Your current Group "veteran members" are:

diannep

LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons

ellen0502

♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW

Betsy, son on Stennis carrier

Craig

Location: Great Lakes, UIllinois
Members: 104
Latest Activity: Sep 10, 2015

WELCOME to PIR 05/10/2013! PLEASE See the PAGES section for Informational Posts about BC and PIR. PAGES is underneath the Members Photos. PLEASE scroll down this page here to find the Comment Box to post a reply to the PIR GROUP.

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CLICK MEforN4M's Community GuidelinesandOPSEC.

~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 diannep on May 6, 2013 at 8:39am: Liz'smom: I agree with mickey....please stay here. You are a part of this group, as your daughter is a part of her division---lots of support here. She still has today and Wed if needed to pass, and then she would be at PIR. You will get lots of support here for her and for you! I know it is hard to read about the new sailors in the group, even though you are happy for them, because of your daughter's situation. But hoping she will be one of them very soon!

Just know that this happened in each PIR group. The run is usually what trips up some of them. But most of them get it done before PIR and are there!

So hang in there...and prayers that your daughter has "wings on her feet" as she runs this morning. Please keep us posted!

Good Morning All !

Comment by mickey71193 on May 6, 2013 at 8:19am: Liz'smom ship 14 div 179 I am pretty quiet on here but I read everything but I felt I had to speak up for you. Don't leave the group you belong here all of us are here and supporting you and your daughter. I will pray for her today that she has a great run.

Comment by Steph Proud AG Mom on May 6, 2013 at 8:09am: No calls yet- she gets to fun the PFA today again- I'm hoping and praying she passes- i feel like I'm in limbo and the fit groups aren't as tight- I feel like we don't belong anywhere- Thinking of leaving the group until I know if she'll PIR on Friday...

Comment by Seabeemom78 Ship 03 DIV 183 on May 6, 2013 at 6:39am: Fire team. I was wondering the same thing as West Coast Mom. I am wondering how heavy of a coat I will need. I was thinking of packing a light sweater and light jacket.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on May 6, 2013 at 12:40am: It's cold...that's the reports we consistently get.

Now, I was weird and was warm. I am thinking it was the long sleeve shirt etc...it was just me.

I would bring something as the seating is metal benches. Even if the temp is okay in there those things have a life...or should I say "no life" of their own. Cold and seeps into the skin.

I brought a poncho so I could either wrap up or sit on it or do both.

Comment by WestCoastMom SHIP 14, DIV 180 on May 6, 2013 at 12:03am: A question for the Admins, do any of you know if they run a heater inside PIR? Or does it stay cold in there? I just don't want to lug around a jacket if I don't need to--especially with hot flashes. Thanks in advance.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on May 5, 2013 at 8:15pm: Oh yes, I am super excited about my new grandbaby coming :) I want to be called Ya Ya but it may come out as Lala since that is what everyone calls me lol. Our baby is due Aug 2nd and we are expecting a girl and she will be named Eastyn :) Congrats on your new grandbaby as well NavyMom <3

I hope everyone had a good weekend :) Sorry I was MIA, My bestfriend/sister-in-law is battling breast cancer and just had a double mastectomy last Monday. The tests from the lymph nodes were good :) Now just waiting to hear when she will start chemo. My niece is raising money and walking in Relay for Life this coming Friday night so I have been making stickers for her to sell to raise more money and ribbons for all 45 people on Team Deb to wear. Please keep her and and all the others who are fighting this terrible disease in your thoughts and prayers. We really appreciate it :)

Comment by CatMom509 on May 5, 2013 at 8:07pm: Hello All~~

     "Your promise revives me,

       it comforts me in all my troubles."

                                  Psalm 119:50

Comment by diannep on May 5, 2013 at 11:00am: NEAT, NavyMom! Never heard of a SKYPE shower but what a great idea! Lala has a grandbaby coming (also her 1st) the month after yours!

Comment by Coach Shelia on May 5, 2013 at 8:54am: Good morning all! 5 days 00 hours 35mins 32 seconds until PIR 5/10/13! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!