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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.
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 05/24/2013 TG 28 - 11 Divisions (195-204 and 928)
Information
This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 04/19 /2013. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
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, IL
Members: 85
Latest Activity: Apr 25, 2014
WELCOME to PIR 05/24//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.
~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 diannep on May 15, 2013 at 1:08pm
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The other "gate pass", Luvmyboyz, is the one for your car if you plan to drive on base for PIR. This is available for you to download from the RTC site 11 days before PIR. SO it is available NOW. Just one gate pass needed per car.
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Luvmyboyz: Yes, he is talking about putting down the guests for PIR. However, they are allowed to have 4 if they want---this is for the PIR, not the gate passes at the airport.
You can meet him at the airport (can't ride with him). They are all bussed out there in the wee hours of the morning to wait for flights. Yes, you can obtain an airlines gate pass with your sailor present at the airlines counter. Be sure all in your group have ID to get these passes. It is up to the airlines to limit how many can be in a group, but we have never heard of this being a problem.
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Comment by Luvmyboyz on May 15, 2013 at 1:02pm
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Thank you FireTeamLeaderWife!! The one phone call I received since he has been gone (5 minutes) I asked if we can go to the airport with him and he said, "Yes, I have put 3 down. Is the "gate pass" what my SR was referring to when he said he will have 3 (his wife, me and his little brother) even though 4 will be attending PIR?
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Comment by ellen0502 on May 15, 2013 at 12:55pm
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If you have given your SR a phone card and if s/he will not need it any longer after BC, and it still has lots of minutes on it at, you might think about asking your SR to "pass it on" to another SR when he/she has used it for the last time. There can be lots of SRs who do not have a phone card to call home that would really appreciate it.
My son passed his on (it was an 800 minute card) without me even asking him to do so, it was used for several months after he got out of BC. It was a card that could be reloaded, and it was re-loaded several times and not by me. I have stopped looking at it so I don't know if it is still being used, but it was nice to know that it was.
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Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on May 15, 2013 at 12:46pm
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Here is some info regarding meeting your Sailor at the Airport:
Yes, you will need a Gate Pass. You must meet your Sailor so they can go to the ticket counter to obtain a Gate Pass for you. Have your ID for anyone who wishes to do so.
The Sailors go to the USO (if there is time between checking in and boarding) to wait for their flights.
Here is the USO info:
USO Info
USO locations at airports: O'Hare (ORD), Midway (MDW) and Milwaukee (MKE) all have USO Centers.The USO at O'Hare is located OUTSIDE of the secured area in Terminal 2 above the Delta Airlines Ticket counter - so anyone can access it. Open 24/7. Phone Number: (773) 686-7396The USO at Midway Airport is located INSIDE of the secured area in Concourse C - you must have a boarding pass or courtesy pass to get beyond TSA security area. Both USO's are . Open 9AM - 9PM, 7 days a week (14/7 as military need arises). Phone: (773) 582-5852The USO at Milwaukee is INSIDE the secured are in Concourse D. Across from Gate D30. It is open 8AM-8PM ,7 days a week. Phone: (414) 455-8108We never see Sailors depart from MKE but I included it anyways.Make sure that they still have a working Phone card on PIR day if they need to call you from the AP.Ask them to write down their itinerary on PIR day. Sailors are usually bussed to the AP in the wee hours of the morning on Saturday F'rinstance...mine left RTC at midnight Friday night to get to the AP by 1 AM...his flight left around 6 AM.BTW don't post departure info details (airline, flight # and times) before it happens...OPSEC.
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Comment by Lighthouse3 Div203 PIR5/24/13 on May 15, 2013 at 12:20pm
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Youngestson, you are extremely kind. I shall get back to you on that. :-)
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Mine will be flying to Wichita Falls, TX.
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I have read the schedule for SRs who will be staying in GL for A School but is there a general schedule for those SRs who will be flying out to CA for A School? So very excited for PIR 5/24
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Comment by colette(14/198) on May 15, 2013 at 11:27am
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Well said Catie!!!!! I feel the same way, thank you so very much Navy Moms <3
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Comment by ColleenE'smom on May 15, 2013 at 9:57am
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Thanks Ellen I printed that and will put it in my binder for the weekend!!
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