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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.
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 diannep on April 23, 2013 at 7:52am
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trueblue: That is what this site is for! All on here understand your feelings so it is a "safe place" to share what you are going through. I know it is a huge life change for all. Including your SR! So many SRs question what they have gotten themselves into when they first start bootcamp....cut off from family/friends, told every move to make, criticized endlessly, challenged, etc.
But just know that it "balances out" eventually. You find a new "normal" at home and so do they in the Navy. Also, know that bootcamp is but a "brief moment" in their Navy adventure. Once in A School, you will feel so much better because contact is back again! You may even wake up then to a text from your new sailor saying good morning!
So hang in there!
Good Morning All!
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Comment by trueblue25 on April 23, 2013 at 6:56am
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The last time I saw my son was 3 weeks ago today.....:( This gets harder and harder...Last night it sounded like someone was coming in the door and for a brief moment, one long enought to hurt, I thought it was him. Just like in the morning before this all sinks in....that 8 seconds right after you wake up when you don't feel it yet...I know I'm proud, and my brain knows this is good for him, but my heart doesn't think it's good for ME! Sorry ladies, I just had to vent...and cry....moving on now.
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Comment by michelek on April 22, 2013 at 10:54pm
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Guidosmom- Welcome! just having other women to talk to on here who are going through the same thing has been wonderful!
Hayden's Mom- that was a beautiful thing to do! I am a big believer in karma and those blessings will come back to you!
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Comment by bnb&bmbmom (Ship 02/ Div 929) on April 22, 2013 at 10:48pm
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Are there any other moms with Nuke daughters in this PIR group? There are eight guys in her division that are Nuke, but she is the only female. Hope there are some other girls out there in other divisions.
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Texas: I thought the song was good too! Had not heard it before....was just looking for a song that was Faith, Hope and Love and that's what I found!
We never can have too much Faith, Hope and Love!
"Hope" and "Faith" can be defined by the ballroom dancer/instructor who was injured in the Boston bomb blast, lost her foot and is already telling everyone that she WILL dance again....and she will! She said she wanted to inspire others who feel like their life is over in a situation like this, that they will live again and can do it! What a wonderful courageous spirit she has!
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Comment by Jana on April 22, 2013 at 7:10pm
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Guidosmom#66 Welcome Div 207 and 208 train together My son is 207
this is the best As you can tell everyone supports each other. I dont know how I would get thru a day without these ladies.
What rate or job is your son and where will be going to A school?
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Hayden's Mom :)
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on April 22, 2013 at 6:08pm
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Hayden's Mom, thanks so much for what you did to pay it forward. That brought tears to my eyes. What a wonderful thing.
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Comment by ellen0502 on April 22, 2013 at 4:57pm
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This site can be very easy with a few tips. :)
First make sure you bookmark this site with your browser, this page or any other.
At the top of the page just under the banner you will see "Tabs", "Main", "Invite", "My age", etc. Those are all clickable links and will take you to those items that fit the categories.
So, clicking on the "My Tab" will take you to all the things about you, setting, profile, groups you've joined etc. The items on that page also have clickable links.
Clicking on the "Groups" tab will take you to the main page for all of the groups on this site. To the left of that page and just under the "tabs" you will see "All Groups" and "My Group". Clicking on the "My Groups" link will take you to a page that lists all the groups you have joined. All of those listed are also clickable links, taking you directly to that group.
Click away a few times and this site will become easy peasy to navigate. If you get lost, click the "My Page" or "Groups" tab to take you back somewhere safe. LOL
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Comment by Guidosmom#66 on April 22, 2013 at 4:38pm
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Hi ladies I m new here my son is ship 12 div 208 .. I m not sure how to navigate on here could use any help .... thanks in advance for your kindness looking forward to making new friends ....
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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