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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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 05/31/2013 TG 29 - 10 Divisions (205-212, 811 and 929)
Information
This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 05/31/2013. 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: 70
Latest Activity: May 31, 2016
WELCOME to PIR 05/31/2013! 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 chrissmom (ship 13 div 209) on April 12, 2013 at 12:02pm
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Good Morning Everyone :)
My son left 4/4 ( from PA ) and as I hear will be PIR on 5/31. I received his box two days ago and still am waiting on his letter which I am hoping I will get tomorrow (as todays mail already came, ugh.... I look forward to hearing from the stories and the day to day from all the moms out there.
Looking forward to his "calls" and letters and can not wait for the letters. Please share as we are all here together and will help everyone with the next 7 weeks:) Have a great day
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Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on April 12, 2013 at 11:18am
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Good Morning, diannep and our new members.
This group holds a special place in my heart, because a good friend of mine has an awesome daughter who will be graduating with this group. :)
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Comment by BPATT'sMom205 on April 12, 2013 at 11:17am
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Good morning Navy Mom friends! I am so excited to have that letter... and I get to mail letters to him today!! Makes me miss him but I am also so proud of him! I look forward to hearing from all of you and your journey these next 7 Fridays! :-)
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Comment by diannep on April 12, 2013 at 8:27am
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Good Morning All! Welcome to the new members here!
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Comment by Hayden's Mom 12 207 on April 12, 2013 at 7:05am
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Good morning my new Navy family! Well, I guess this is "home" for a while..thank you all so much for reaching out and offering words of encouragement. I am expecting my letter today and counting down the Friday's until PIR..2 down..7 to go!! Best wishes to all of your families..especially those special SR's..Wow..Navy acronyms seem to just roll of my tongue these days :)
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Comment by surgicalnurse on April 12, 2013 at 6:21am
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Hi! My son also left for GL 4/2 and am waiting for the box and letter to arrive. I got my time-off request okayed for 5/31 and hope I don't have to change the dates and ask my boss for the week before but know its possible. I'm flying in for PIR and want to book my flight soon. He's going to be training as a hospital corpsman after BC. I look forward to getting to meet some of you in person next month :-)
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Comment by NavyMom2013 on April 12, 2013 at 1:24am
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Well, the letter arrived and my son is actually in a PUSH division because he is graduating 5/24/13. So I will move over to the site for that graduation date and wish everyone good luck on this one! Bye.
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Comment by Trevor'sMom on April 12, 2013 at 12:52am
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My son arrived GL 4/2 and will train as a hospital corpsman. Any other parents here for Ship 09 Div 206? We live in NC and will be making the trip fo PIR 5/31.
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Comment by kjacob's mom on April 12, 2013 at 12:29am
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MomThatLovesHerSon, my letter was postmarked 4/8/13 and got it today. If you live a great ways away it could take longer.
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Comment by MomThatLovesHerSon on April 11, 2013 at 11:43pm
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HaydensMom, I have not gotten the form letter yet. I am just guessing that my son's PIR is 5/31/13, so I joined this group.
Pages (13)
- N4M’s Community Guidelines and OPSEC
- SHIP/DIVISIONS ~~ What are they and how do they fill them?
- What ARE They Doing in Boot Camp? Synopsis, Videos and a Day-by-Day account (up to Week #6) from a Sailor. PLUS-Boot Camp for Dummies!
- Calls from your SR
- RTC Website and RTC Family Guide links
- Writing Letters ~ Jokes and Fun Stuff to include in your letters/Contact Lenses and Make-Up
- PIR: What to Wear/Bring and Tips; PIR Reference Group/Forum links; GPS for RTC
- Flags and Pennants that your DIV can earn while at BC
- After PIR – Liberty; Sailors Departures from RTC/USO Info
- DIVISION TSHIRTS
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