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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:
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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 NavyMom2013 on May 4, 2013 at 10:44am
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Battlestations: we know it is just before PIR. It could be any of those days in that week or maybe the last days of the week before. It is always nice to pray that day specifically for what they are facing, but "praying up' ahead of time is fantastic as well. It could be "prepare my son/daughter for the emotional, physical, and mental strength he/she (or they if praying for all) to listen attentively, work together as a unit with fellow soon-to-be sailors, and endure throught the sleeplessness of "showing-what-they-know." If you keep our kids in your thoughts for weeks leading up to that night, you WILL be praying on that day. By the way, the confidence chamber is the day before BS21 so add that!!!
It's nice how we can support each others' loved ones. In 3 weeks from today they will be headed towards their A School. Down to the wire now. See you guys in 20 days at PIR. Can't wait to meet you.
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Comment by maryanne on May 4, 2013 at 9:11am
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diannep,I am wondering about pictures. Will he have had them taken and then we can buy them if we want to there? I do not want to miss out on that........Also what is OPSEC and I have no idea when he actually has Battlestations,just know it must be coming up soon........I sure hope and pray they all pass. That was a good idea whoever said to post if they all pass........20 days.........
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Comment by diannep on May 4, 2013 at 8:06am
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Good Morning All!
Yes, please remember that we cannot post Battlestations dates on this site. They can only be private messaged. This is a request from RTC as they want you to practice OPSEC and pretend that BattleStations is an actual deployment, which means no discussing dates until after the fact.
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Comment by ellen0502 on May 4, 2013 at 2:14am
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Comment by VeryProudMomOfMorgan 1 hour ago
We are so excited. Our daughters flag design was chosen to be the flag that they will hang for DIV 201 during graduation!! We received another 6 page letter on Wednesday and she loaded it with information. Due to the fact that she has been Master at Arms since week 1 she has been privledged to additonal info, not much, but more than before. lol We know that "Hell Week" began for them on Wednesday and will last until the 8th. They are busy 24/7 from now until graduation. (**) It's nice to finally have an idea of what she is doing each day, rather than the constant wondering. She also stated that she probably wont have any privledges to call until shortly before PIR. We kind of figured that, so we havent actually had a phone call from her for 2 weeks now. Has anyone else received any similar info from their recruit?
**content edited to remove BS days/dates
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Moms,
Don't forget that when your son/daughter calls for the "I'm a Sailor" call, ask if everyone in their division passed and then post it (not names please). If all passed then all the moms will know their children passed, especially helpful for those parents that don't get a call because their kids are on watch.
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on May 3, 2013 at 11:23pm
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Congrats on the letters and calls. I know it makes you feel so much better :)
Does anyone in this group live in the central FL/Gulf Coast area? New Port Richey, Tampa, Clearwater, Orlando? Would you like to come to a Navy Mom Meet and Greet On Friday May 10 at 7:00pm at Rusty Bellies in Tarpon Springs at the Sponge docks? I would love to meet you all, hang out, and talk about our Sailors. Feel free to bring someone if you like. Also please join my FL facebook group so you can stay connected to other FL moms/families and find out about other meet and Greets in the future. We will be there again the last week of June/first week of July and will host a Meet and Greet Party then as well and host a Navy/Military Scrapbook Make and Take party as well. I love meeting my Navy Mom friends :)https://www.facebook.com/groups/147079298773780/
Here is the link for the event to RSVP
http://www.navyformoms.com/events/navy-moms-central-gulf-coast-flor...
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Comment by ColleenE'smom on May 3, 2013 at 8:16pm
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B26kid congrats on your letter and call! That is a wonderful start to the weekend.
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Comment by b26kid19(13/196) on May 3, 2013 at 6:00pm
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Just got a surprize phone call, he had watch when the div got their calls so they let him make a short one today. So he tells me he was only 10 secs off his run, I said you've got it the next time, and he said damn straight, I am getting out if here in three weeks. Lol. Said everyone is happy they are in the homestretch !made a lot of good friends.
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Comment by CatMom509 on May 3, 2013 at 11:13am
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Happy Friday Everyone!!
"Surely God is my help;
the Lord is the One who sustains me."
Psalm 54:4
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Good Morning!
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