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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
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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 Paula (Will's Mom) on April 25, 2013 at 8:50pm
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I received a letter and a call today!!! What an awesome treat!! My SR sounded so good!! Aside from the Ricky crud and pink eye...he's doing great!! 29 days to go!!! He said this next week is going to be rough but he's ready to finish this!!! So proud of my boy!!!
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Comment by diannep on April 25, 2013 at 8:42pm
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Sherry: Great idea! If you haven't mailed it already, you may want to put it in an envelope so he doesn't have to "read it aloud" to everyone! Just better to put postcards in envelopes. If already mailed, that's ok!
Catie: Glad that you will have the extra day with your sailor! That is the neat thing about a 3 day holiday weekend! Hope there are many more who won't fly out until Sunday. Where is your future sailor going to A School?
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Comment by maryanne on April 25, 2013 at 8:11pm
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diannep,thanks again for all of your help...........I am still trying to figure out who everyone is and I know you have had lots of experience.....I sure hope your right,it would be wonderful..........I am booking extra nights just in case........
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Comment by Anna on April 25, 2013 at 7:56pm
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I received a letter and phone call today how exciting! He seems to be doing great and is happy which made my day!
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Received second call this week So excited. SR states he has a tough division and lost a couple of recruits this week. He also got promoted and is now an E2. Talked for a whole12minutes lol
He sounded great! He also said he wasn't going to A school until Sunday after PIR how cool is that!
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Comment by Sherry on April 25, 2013 at 5:40pm
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passed around a postcard in the sales office where i worked to write or just sign for my SR. Most of them have known him since he started school and he knows them. He will like this and be surprised. Next week i will pass another one around. Sherry
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Sounds like a great letter, b26kid19! Thanks for sharing!
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Comment by b26kid19(13/196) on April 25, 2013 at 1:27pm
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Received another letter from my S.R. today. Stretched from April 11 - 21st. He says that he is doing well. He has made a lot of friends. I can't mention the names cause he refers to them by last names, but they are from MI, HI,SD and PA. He said they are a tight knit group that have their S**t together. He also said that they designed their Div flag, said he couldn't wait till PIR to march in with it.He is actually starting to enjoy PT, he said they make it fun for each other. Also craving some crazy things. Gave me a list what to bring with me to PIR.
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maryanne: I am one of the N4Moms veterans helping on these groups since early 2010. So in our past experience, we know this (plus ellen, your group creator, has a son at GL A School!). The GL A School students are blessed to get the most Liberty. Memorial Day is a federal holiday, so they should have time with families that day also, unless they have "watch". I believe "watches" are 4 hours long....so they would still have Liberty before/after the watch.
So plan on having that time with your sailor and book accordingly!
Good Morning All!
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Thanks Sherry, Maryanne and Dianne! Really appreciate the posts and support.
Shante'
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