This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
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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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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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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 michelek on May 3, 2013 at 12:39am
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diannep- thanks I called Sarge and he will have a sign-up at the meet-n-greet for the shuttle. He gave me a lot of great tips- like telling your sailor send their photos home instead of pick-up at PIR to save their liberty time.
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Comment by MomThatLovesHerSon on May 2, 2013 at 11:05pm
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Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons,
Thanks for putting that template here for us to mail to our SRs about flight information. So important and so great to have all the information together for our SRs to just fill in and give to us!!
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Comment by diannep on May 2, 2013 at 10:42pm
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nickibink: If your hotel uses the shuttle service, you usually book your time when you check in. If you want to use Sarge's shuttle service, he asks you to contact him within a couple of weeks of PIR to schedule....just makes it easier for him, but if you have to call last minute, he'll work it out.
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Hayden's Mom and Jana, I am thinking like y'all. If I had not found Navy 4 Moms, I would know so much less right now. N4M has educated me and comforted me. On Navy4Moms, there are other moms who know exactly what you are going through and that is so very comforting!!
I am looking forward to meeting moms at a meet and greet and at PIR. We have all been walking this same journey together !!
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Comment by VAlexander on May 2, 2013 at 10:38pm
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Hello all, I just can't wait until the day come, a letter and phone call is good, but to see my baby girl and give her a big hug and kiss is better.
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I got my 1st real letter from my son (Div 211) today !! Woo Hoo!! 3 pages, front side !! I'm so happy!!
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Comment by nickibink on May 2, 2013 at 10:04pm
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I sent my SR one of the questionairres last week. I got it back today. :) Hid Dad got the 'letter' and promised to bring it to me tomorrow so I can keep it.
He want a 'real cheeseburger' or a deep dish Chicago pizza and sleep after PIR. LOL!!
Hope some of you got letters too!
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Since we are driving there, I had planned on driving to PIR. How far in advance do you need to book shuttle service? We will get there early Thursday and I had planned to make a test drive to RTC and see how difficult it is.
My daughter and I are staying at the Courtyard.
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Comment by Hayden's Mom 12 207 on May 2, 2013 at 9:02pm
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I totally agree Jana..the knowledge I have gained on this site has empowered me. Our lives changed 4 weeks ago and I saw a side of myself that I didn't really know..I was completely out of my comfort zone. I felt so many conflicting emotions and I feared I would never understand my sons new military world..the moment I typed navyformoms I knew I had found a new extended family to help me feel connected to my son..Thank you ladies..you have no idea how much your daily dose of wisdom and kindness keeps me focused on all the right reasons why we have given our children to a life of service :)
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Jana: We love to have newly "graduated" N4Moms veterans join us to share the info they have now accumulated! So keep that in mind after your PIR! :-)
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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