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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.

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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

...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.

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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. 

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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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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.

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ALUMNI OF PIR 05/31/2013 TG 29 - 10 Divisions (205-212, 811 and 929)

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ALUMNI OF PIR 05/31/2013 TG 29 - 10 Divisions (205-212, 811 and 929)

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.


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~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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Comment by CatMom509 on May 20, 2013 at 4:07am

donna93,

The NEX at Great Lakes sells Navy clothing, toiletries, stationery, notebooks, snacks, some Navy souvenirs.  It is really quite small to me, like a 7-11 or Circle K size.  Also, since there was so many people there, the sizes small and medium were kind of scarce on the popular shirts.  There is a larger NEX offbase on Greenbay Road, Building No. 3452 off of Buckley Road east of the 41.  They have a larger selection and carry electronics.  The website for all the NEXs is www.mynavyexchange.com .  Hours are Mon - Sat 9 am to 8 pm and Sun 10 am to 6 pm.  I'm sure that you need your Sailor with you to shop there.

Comment by MomThatLovesHerSon on May 19, 2013 at 11:30pm

Hi veteran moms,

Question - Is there a checklist for preparing/packing for PIR?

I thought if I went by a checklist, it would help me not to forget something.

Thanks.

Comment by martown on May 19, 2013 at 10:49pm
CatMom an diannep thx you for the info we are leaving Saturday also in the afternoon I was just wondering if we would have time to meet her at the airport I guess we will just have to wait an see again thx you
Comment by sol on May 19, 2013 at 10:38pm
Good news Jana see you then we'll be on the 30 to the welcome family's and meet the Sargent hope to see you and meet every body there
Comment by Jana on May 19, 2013 at 9:01pm

Sol saw your post on IC moms my son is an IC also and I didnt realize he had the same PIR  so we are in the same  "boat " for A school

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on May 19, 2013 at 8:58pm
Here is my "standard post" for meeting your Sailor at the AP:

You will need a Gate Pass. You must meet your Sailor so they can go to the ticket counter to obtain a Gate Pass for you. Have your ID for anyone who wishes to do so.
The Sailors go to the USO (if there is time between checking in and boarding) to wait for their flights.

USO locations at airports: O'Hare (ORD), Midway (MDW) and Milwaukee (MKE) all have USO Centers.
The USO at O'Hare is located OUTSIDE of the secured area in Terminal 2 above the Delta Airlines Ticket counter - so anyone can access it. Open 24/7. Phone Number: (773) 686-7396
The USO at Midway Airport is located INSIDE of the secured area in Concourse C - you must have a boarding pass or courtesy pass to get beyond TSA security area. Both USO's are . Open 9AM - 9PM, 7 days a week (14/7 as military need arises). Phone: (773) 582-5852
The USO at Milwaukee is INSIDE the secured are in Concourse D. Across from Gate D30. It is open 8AM-8PM ,7 days a week. Phone: (414) 455-8108
We never see Sailors depart from MKE but I included it anyways.

Make sure that they still have a working Phone card on PIR day if they need to call you from the AP.

Ask them to write down their itinerary on PIR day. Sailors are usually bussed to the AP in the wee hours of the morning on Saturday F'rinstance...mine left RTC at midnight Friday night to get to the AP by 1 AM...his flight left around 6 AM.

BTW don't post departure info details (airline, flight # and times) before it happens...OPSEC.
Comment by MomThatLovesHerSon on May 19, 2013 at 8:34pm

Questions for the veteran moms:

I know we can meet our SR at the airport and get a gate pass and spend the time with them before they leave.

But do we meet them at the ticket counter?

How do we time it to try to be there just when they arrive?

If we arrive later than them and they know we are coming, will their fellow SR's just go on through security and our SR will just wait behind at the ticket counter for us?

Sorry, just a little confused.  Thanks.

Comment by B'sWife13210 on May 19, 2013 at 8:28pm

donna93- the NEX is the same as a PX

Comment by donna93 on May 19, 2013 at 8:25pm

Could someone please fill me in on what exactly the NEX is and is it similar to a PX??    Was wondering if it was, and what exactly do they sale in it.  Sorry if a dumb question but I am new to this military thing. 

Comment by donna93 on May 19, 2013 at 8:20pm

Clint's mom-  I laughed when I read your comment about not getting filled in on everything...just the highlights.  I know exactly how you feel.  It is like pulling teeth to get information out of my son. I don't think he does it on purpose, it is just how he rolls.... ; )       My son is in div 208.  I know we will all be worn down by the time PIR is done and everyone tries to stay awake with our new sailor at the airport.   Can't wait !!

 

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