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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
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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
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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 mindshaper87 on April 21, 2013 at 10:41am
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I too have a daughter in college and having a child join the service is SOOO different. Although since my son has left (April 1), I have noticed my daughter has become a little jelly bean. "Mom that is all you talk about. It's like you don't care about me." Geesh! I guess I have been a little consumed. Maybe it will be better when they go to A school because we can talk to them more. In the mean time, I better give my girl a little more TLC :)
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Oh i will stay on here. This is such a wonderful site and so active. I was just curious about the other site and if people are on both. I ran across the link on FB today. I love that the FB RTC posts pictures of the SRs. I always try to spot my son. No luck so far. Although I laughed a little. The last pics had me looking at one SR thinking "this could be him." Shouldn't I KNOW my son??? So many look the same in their camo and shaved heads. Reminds me of taking my son to the city pool when he was little and losing him in the crowd of boys with wet head and swim trunks. They all looked the same then too!
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Comment by BPATT'sMom205 on April 21, 2013 at 10:33am
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diannep--you are so right! I sent two daughters off to college and it was much tougher on us with this NAVY thing! :-) Thanks for your encouragement!!
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Comment by diannep on April 21, 2013 at 10:26am
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RTC does have a FB page which is very informative too.
Recruit Training Command on FB.
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mindshaper: Please stay on here too. We N4Moms veterans will be passing out alot of info on here...many take that info back to FB with them.
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Did anyone find Navy Mom Connection on Facebook?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Navy-Mom-Connection/145878765452944?...
I am wondering how different it is from N4M??? Are a lot of you on both??
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BPATT'sMom: You will find that as hard as others try to understand what you/your son are going through, they just can't. Some will relate bootcamp to going away to college. So NOT the same! Having contact with your college student is so different, as well as knowing they can get home if they need to or you can go there. But don't fault them...they really try. They just can't understand it! Having someone in a military bootcamp is truly a unique emotional experience!
And, yes, you are for sure doing the right thing by writing as often as you can! I have never heard of any SR complaining that he/she received too many letters! That is one time that they enjoy having their names called out during bootcamp! :-)
Good Morning All !
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Comment by ellen0502 on April 21, 2013 at 6:39am
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YEA!! Got a call this evening!! I put him on speaker so he could talk with his dad as well. He says they are all sharing coughs--and they are doing a ton of PT. We only talked about 6 or 7 minutes but it put a smile on our faces the rest of the evening. He loves letters and wants us to continue to write everyday... and my family thought I was overdoing it for writing everyday... he thanked me!! :-) And told his dad to do so as well--haha.
SO HAPPY FOR EVERYONE THAT GOT CALLS TODAY! If you didn't you will, hang in there!
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Just found out he called Dad this week. He said he is alternating whose number he calls each opportunity. I always taught my boy to be fair...even though I really wanted the call...lol... My hubby said he sounded really good and had a positive attitude.
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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