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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
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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 FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on April 21, 2013 at 6:35pm
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That is very honorable of your son!
It is a personal preference for everyone! My husband and son have worn their uniforms to each others "things" :-) I do like the pics of them together diannep!
For those that will be/or have a Family member that will attend in their branch dress Uniform, RTC has a Page on their website with information on dress and procedure for PIR. Here is the link:
Military Personnel Attending PIR Information
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Comment by Motherof3sons on April 21, 2013 at 5:52pm
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NavyMom2013 - I love your post and words of wisdom. So well said. I feel the pride you have for your boys through your words. Thank you for sharing.
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Comment by diannep on April 21, 2013 at 2:01pm
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Awwwww.....so kind of him. But maybe his sailor brother would love standing in his Navy uniform next to his "bro" in his uniform?? What a great picture!
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Comment by NavyMom2013 on April 21, 2013 at 1:56pm
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DianneP,
. . . dating the letters, my friend did this in the early 70s when her bf was in Okinawa. Now it's my turn (in memory of my dear friend Donna).
Cute, Army/Navy Mom. But I wanted this to be about the Navy boy. His brother thought about wearing his Army dress uniform to PIR but decided it is about his brother and he didn't want to take away his brother's day of glory. What love!
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NavyMom2013; Thinking that your screen name should be Army/NavyMom! So wonderful that you have two in two branches of our military!
Good idea on dating the letters ....many have done this in the past and it worked well when the letters arrived in a group to their SR.
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DianneP,
I date each letter and show the order of letter at the top so he can keep them intact in case he throws away the envelopes which also show the order I sent them. Oh, by the way guys, I will be bringing my SRs brother that went on three tours and is in Army guard as an acting Platoon Sargeant. Sorry but I don't know what that means. Have a restful day thinking about the ironing and studying they are doing. LOL
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JsMom,
Yes, I am going to PIR. Hotel, plane tickets, etc ready and almost packed! I will be at Sarge's the night before around 6:00. I am staying 3 nights to either be there with him if they don't send them away so fast or to spend a day sight seeing. Why go to Chicago and not SEE Chicago? I hear the architectural boat ride through Chicago is 1 hour and worth seeing. I couldn't find a concert I wanted to see so who knows what else I will do.
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VeryProudMomOfMorgan,
Somehow I can imagine how sending a daughter away would be so different than a son. This is my second son to go (1st Army with 3 tours of duty in Iraq & Afghanistan). This time is easier than sending them to the sands of the Middle East, but he is my youngest and it is still tough. I am so proud that both of my sons have a heart for protecting our nation and OUR freedoms.
I try to rest on knowing that he is fine or I would hear otherwise. He is probably keeping his head down and focusing on his job at hand (mom's advice). I will probably bawl like a baby when I do hear his voice like I did when his brother called upon arriving in Kuwait, a safe zone saying "Mom I don't have to carry a gun. Noone is trying to kill me." Now those words will stick to a Mom's heart forever.
During that time I carried my phone everywhere and when I took every call even in the movie theatre. When I got disapproving looks or comments from people, they would back off and even cry when I said my son is in war and I don't want to miss his satellite call.
I will be doing the same thing when my sailor is on a mission without contact for months. We gave them away to our country, but really they belong to God. He just let us have them for awhile, but allows us to love them forever.
#1 love - sending them MANY love letters so they know our hearts are with them in their trials.
#2 love - continuing on with our current lives and doing well. They want to be comfortable going and doing what they have to do without babysitting us.
#3 love - supporting what THEY chose to do and reminding them with every letter and phone call how much we support them and appreciate the adult they are becoming (as we stress at home!!!)
Can anyone add any more love points?
When you feel really stressed, pray. One morning I woke up at 6:00 am and KNEW I was supposed to pray for him. He must have been going through something tough.
32 days, 21 hours, 2 minutes, 47 seconds. Are you a clock watcher, too?
You wanna talk to her? Then do. Right now tell her everything you want to say. You'd be surprised how much energy we can send to people without using our sense of hearing. She will feel the love and hopefully you will feel better.
Let's meet at Sarge's. I will be there around 6:00.
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Comment by VeryProudMomOfMorgan on April 21, 2013 at 12:24pm
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This has been an emotional roller coaster ride. The first week our daughter was gone, I cried almost every day. These past couple of weeks I have been ok, even happy but for some reason today I am frustrated. I just want to talk to her. I'm sorry for being so whiny.
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Navymom2013 I am getting a little grouchy too. She has been gone since March 27 and we have only received 1 letter other than the letter we received about PIR. It basically said nothing in it either. We have received the first phone call (10 seconds) a second call for about 2 minutes and then one 5 minute call last weekend. Havent received anything else.We are trying to plan something for PIR weekend as all of our family lives in Lake Zurich, Illinois which is about 1/2 hour from Great Lakes but dont have any information other than what I read on hear so everything is so up in the air. I am frustrated today. ;-(
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