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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.
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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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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 Momof2NavyFemales on May 10, 2013 at 10:57pm
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Question: my daughter sent a letter and in her letter she stated that she must have lost her driver license in the Chicago airport on April 2nd. She needs it now to have ID to go on to A school. She had it at MEPS and she said she had it at O'Hare. But now it's lost and she is sad because there is no way for her to get another one. In Iowa to issue a duplicate you must be present to have your photo taken and then it's issued as a piece of paper then in a few weeks we get the hard plastic one in the mail. The Iowa DOT did issued her a 6 month extension of her license because that is all they can send her at this point in time but all it says is that she has a valid license. And without a photo ID, she wont be allowed to go on to her A school. Has anyone else ever had a problem like this and is there really no way to get around it?
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Comment by mindshaper87 on May 10, 2013 at 9:15pm
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We are almost in the teens!!!!
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Comment by bonitacruzita5894 on May 10, 2013 at 1:37pm
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Anyone on this page with a SR that went to GB High School first name starts with a (D)and ends with a (S)? Please message me.
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Comment by CatMom509 on May 10, 2013 at 10:52am
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Happy, Happy Friday Everyone!!
"Lord, You establish peace for us;
all that we have accomplished
You have done for us."
Isaiah 26:12
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bnb&bmbmom,
When you write her a letter, just send her a couple of extra sheets of paper and a couple of the short envelopes. It depends on how much your long envelope can take to be under 1 oz. For example, when I wrote my Sailor daughter, I knew I could send her a 5 page letter in a long envelope and that would meet the limit. So I would write her a 2 page letter or a couple of pages front and back to double up, then include blank paper to take up the rest. If I had extra stamps, I would sometime write up a SASE for her to save her from addressing a letter to me, but I would also just send her a stamped envelope (in case she wanted to just write her Daddy or sisters). She wrote each of us individual letters. Or just blank envelopes I would send her, but I just included them as an extra with my letters or cards. Notebook paper with the 3 holes also weighed less than blank white paper. It was no problem because I wrote her almost everyday anyway~~
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Comment by annitad04 on May 10, 2013 at 8:31am
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Thank you diannep! The support I have found here is amazing. I truly don't know what I would have done without you all! I am so excited being this close and knowing I can finally see my son.
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Comment by diannep on May 10, 2013 at 8:20am
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annitad: The 3rd and final PFA (physical fitness assessment) is the very important one. Each must pass that one in order to proceed to BattleStations, so they use the first two tests as practice. So, I'm glad that he passed the 2nd one! He should be ready to get that 3rd one done then!
Good Morning All !
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Happy Friday! Received a letter from my son yesterday. He had failed his physical assessment the first time, but later passed it. He's sounding excited about this journey coming to an end. Our letters do make a difference! He was down about failing his test, but he received a card that I had sent him about how much I support him and I am the President of his fan club. He told me that gave him so much initiative to pass that test. And he did it! 3 Weeks!! Continued prayers for those ill and injured.
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Comment by donna93 on May 10, 2013 at 6:34am
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3 weeks and counting!!! I even took a gamble and ordered challenge coin last night... I forgot to ask last night... in my sons letter he mentioned that he probably won't get to call again until maybe the 20th - 28th. anybody else get this horrible news?
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That I don't know. You may want to post that question on the actual A School group on here to see if those ladies know. Seems like a pretty drastic cut to me. If the program is "self-paced" as my son's was...then some can finish much earlier than others. But to reduce it by half seems drastic.
I would also ask on his rating (job) group on here. Those who have sailors in the program now may have more info for you.
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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