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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:
Events
**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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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 MaMick on May 30, 2013 at 12:25pm
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Luvmyboyz, my daughter is in Pensacola for A School. I too thought that there would be a bit more communication. I have talked to her maybe three times since Sunday, and maybe two or three short texts a day. She said that she is very busy. I also wonder if it is that they just aren't used to communicating like they used to. Definitely think us Moms, dads, and families are in for another adjustment period. I'm glad I am not the only one feeling this way.
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Comment by Luvmyboyz on May 30, 2013 at 12:08pm
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It has been a week since PIR and my Sailor is at A School in Port Hueneme, CA. Although he has his cell and laptop there is still very little communication. He has been sending me a one text nightly. I know he said he is extremely busy and will call as soon as he gets a chance but it may not be until this weekend. I feel sad again and I actually feel I have less communication (no letters & less post from here of what to expect & not knowing when I will see him again) so just wondering if this is just another adjustment period and if it will get better.
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Comment by jody on May 30, 2013 at 9:44am
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Hi Light house I was at O'Hare with the same fleet lol add me we can talk
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Comment by Lighthouse3 Div203 PIR5/24/13 on May 29, 2013 at 11:58am
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Yes, thank you very much, Diannep. You have been extremely helpful.
I think I'm starting to recover from spending my birthday overnight at O'Hare with what seemed like an entire fleet of sailors! LOL Since we didn't go to a meet-and-greet (we weren't in that area), I didn't know if any of the very few parents we saw at the airport (American Airlines area) were members here or not. Perhaps someone should suggest to a future PIR group on N4Ms that members wear a name tag with N4Ms or their member name on it.
May 24th was definitely one of the most splendid days of my life! Having prayed for all the divisions at their Battle Stations time, I felt like I had more than one sailor there. I am so thankful to the Lord for bringing those 890 through, and I pray that those who are finishing up yet will make it soon.
I'm with Paula, Will's mom, in that it was hard to have him leave. However, it is wonderful to be able to communicate again. He is quite happy to have only 1 roommate, rather than 89, and only 4 to a bathroom. He is also thrilled to eat on real plates! :-) When he was here at home on liberty for a few short hours, he stood looking out the picture window, marveling that he was in a real house and that he could see out the windows! I guess the ones at BC were all heavily frosted.
What a journey we've all had! It still brings the emotions to the surface. We are so blessed. May the Lord continue to hold our sailors in the palm of His hand, help them through their schools, guide and protect them.
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diannep, Thank you for all of your help! I truly appreciate it. My nerves and anxiety have now graduated from bootcamp too. :)
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Comment by aircrewmanmom on May 29, 2013 at 9:15am
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diannep, Thank you for all your help during this journey! You have been a God send. God bless you and your sailor!
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Comment by smokeater on May 29, 2013 at 9:09am
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Diannep where are you going? If it isn't any of my business I respect that. Just wondered which group you were going to. I'm trying to get into the Pensacola A school and the Christian group but there are so many boot camp down loads everyday that by the time I filter thru them I've used up too much time. lol
I'm trying to stop following that group. It's hard tho.
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Comment by diannep on May 29, 2013 at 8:23am
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Leaving this group now. Blessings to your new sailors in their next adventures! :-)
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Comment by CatMom509 on May 28, 2013 at 3:44pm
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Hi Friends!
"This is what the Lord says--
Your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
I am the Lord Your God,
who teaches you what is best for you,
who directs you in the way you should go."
Isaiah 48:17
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Thanks Everyone
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