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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.
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:
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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
~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".
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He will be fine and valuable lessons will be learned. I was thinking of you all yesterday when the speaker asked in a seminar I was attending: Are their any persons in the audience in the military two women raised their hands. Then he asked Do either of you remember your drill Sargent's face and of course they both did. When I think of what happened in Boston yesterday and the training our young recruits are receiving I thank God it is not so easy as this world has criminals that are killing and maiming the innocent. My daughter works at Mass General and it was like a war zone 30 traumatic amputations and she thought more casualties would happen overnight So to our sons and daughters that volunteered for boot camp recruit training I am humbled and thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
Jsmom, Yes I think he likes the warm weather, although being in Texas may be more than he's used to her in Virginia even though it does get hot here.... He is an avid tennis player and hopes he will have a little free time to play. Provided that he continues to do well in boot camp and gets though A school ok, we now wonder how much liberty he will have after A school to allow him to come home for a while to unwind before deploying to his next duty station. Looking forward to meeting you and your husband if time permits.
Good Morning Ladies!
My son called me last week, only because he did not have his girlfriend's number memorized (thanks to cell phone directories). This past week end he called her. I don't mind that, I just wish I would get a letter. His girlfriend is coming over tonight for dinner to tell everyone what he had to say. It will be a big dinner!
:-)
Okay, I have not met you and you know me THAT WELL. Very Bad Girl fits HAHAHAHA!
Very Big Grin LOL
Here is the Movie:
youngestson - {{VBG}}
...ellen, too funny.
The military loves their acronyms!
No cost for either one, but Sarge accepts donations since he/wife pay for this each week out of their own pockets. They have more food at his, ordered from restaurants. His is full of info...one lady in a previous group recommended that you all bring paper/pen to write it down since there is so much.
Ramada's is more like just getting to meet each other. It doesn't have the same info that Sarge's does.
NavyMom2013: Yep, they probably are wrong! :-) If you look to the right of this page, in the EVENTS column, you will see Sarge's MeetandGreet listed for another PIR date and see the times of his MeetandGreet on there. It is the same each week. It is possible the some people stayed long past 9 at one of his MeetandGreets and that is where the person on NavyDads got that it wasn't over until 11.
I know there is an informative presentation at Sarge's, but what happens at the Ramada? Does the Ramada cost?
I posted Sarge's to be from 5 - 11 but I got that off of Navy for Dads. Maybe those guys got it wrong?!?
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