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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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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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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 Ryansgirl80 on April 13, 2013 at 6:14pm
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I recieved the 1st call too! Ship 03 Div. 202. It was nice to get to talk to him for 30 min. :)
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Comment by b26kid19(13/196) on April 13, 2013 at 5:55pm
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Patti send me a private message with your sons name, I can mention him to my son next time I write or talk to him. That's what they are there for, to help each other . My son is one of the older ones at 26.
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Comment by Motherof3sons on April 13, 2013 at 4:54pm
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FYI -I received my first call from my son. Ship 13 Div 203. They will be able to start writing letters tomorrow and receive mail this coming week. Sooooo good to finally here his voice.
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Comment by diannep on April 13, 2013 at 4:22pm
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Too funny, Craig!
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Comment by Craig on April 13, 2013 at 3:52pm
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You know what's funny dianne? When my son called for his security clearance information in boot camp, he said I needed to scan it and send it to the investigator doing his interview. I did. However, at the bottom of one form to the investigator I wrote "Here is the information you requested. Now can you do me a favor? My son forgot to clean his bedroom before he left, can you make him do 20 push-ups and tell him afterwards, that was from his father who said you forgot to clean your room"..... The investigator did it. Woo-hoo... I loved making him buff.... He thought it was funny too when he found out.
Since I'm retired Navy I have the long-arm--of-the-law everywhere... I love messing with my son. He loves it too... In "A" school, he was pulled out of class. He didn't know what he did wrong. Little did he know that I was friends with the Command Master Chief, we were stationed together. My friend wanted to meet my kid. So they talked for a while and he went back to class. Everyone in the class was freaking out trying to find out what happened. My son said "The problem is, I'm the son of a sailor...." It was sooo funny.
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At PIR, they are in the best shape ever! My sailor was in pretty good shape when he left for bootcamp, but I was amazed at the shape he was in at PIR. All of that IT they do really shows! :-)
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Per the challenge coin. The sailors loved one buys the coin. Unlike the Air Force that will award the military personnel, in the Navy it's the family member for boot camp.
For those that want to know how to present your coin to you sailor, and how to do the "Secret Handshake" watch this NBC news video. For the wives and GF, after you hug and kiss your sailor, then tell them to stand their you want to do something. Then present the coin to him.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28663038#28663038
Your sailor will ALWAYS remember this day their entire career. Every time they are awarded a coin in the future, they will always remember the day you gave them their 1st coin and that you gave it to them "the official way". It's a pride thing for us sailors!!! Beware, collecting challenge coins are addicting.
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Comment by ellen0502 on April 13, 2013 at 2:53pm
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Evidently divisions 195/196 have moved from Ship 11 to Ship 13. Some here have Ship 11 and some have Ship 13. Keep writing to your SR with the Ship number you were given and then make sure you ask your SR what Ship they are on in your next letter. Your mail will still get to them!!
Ship 11 is going through some renovations, remodeling and maintenance and for the last few weeks recruits in Ship 11 have been moved. These two division will always be in the same ship and moved at the same time (if that happens) so...
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OK So I have now changed 195/196 to Ship 13. If that is not correct let me know.
Dagum RTC! Don't they know that people want to mail letters and have them get there with no possible delays.
Seriously though, your mail will be delivered just fine, so mail away every day. Keep those cards and letters going to your SR, mail call is like Christmas morning for them.
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Comment by NavyMom2013 on April 13, 2013 at 2:35pm
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B26kid19,
. . . and that he will be really buff at PIR!
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