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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 Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on April 19, 2013 at 4:43pm
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you will no longer be able to buy the shirts with the DIV FLag on the back until after PIR. You can place your order while you are at PIR or order online when you get back home. This is all new. In the past families could get them before but the new company doing the shirts is doing everything differently.
DIVISION APPAREL
Naval Station Great Lakes
NEW MORE EXCITING PROGRAM
Exclusive to YOUR Recruit!
“Your Recruits will have the first opportunity to order apparel imprinted with their unique Divisional Flag design allowing them to capture this valuable memory that will follow them throughout their Navy career.”
We invite all family and friends to stop by after graduation at building 1326 to purchase additional apparel or you can order on-line starting the Monday after graduation at www.aomwr.com. This website will be available for online orders, starting 20 May 2013.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AS WE TRANSITION INTO THIS NEW PROGRAM!
Any questions or concerns please contact us at retail@mwrgl.com.
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Comment by diannep on April 19, 2013 at 8:29am
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Ladies: Just a gentle warning to be careful what you post on here about their RDCs. This is a public site and Navy personnel has been known to read these pages and the FB groups. So please consider that before you post any info from your SR! And ask yourself before posting...would my SR want me to post this publicly where his/her RDC may read it? Could bring some trouble to your SR and his/her division.
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Ok, just realized that some of you are receiving letters now. YAH! That means that they are now receiving mail M-F. So write often!
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Good Morning All !
Remember, this early in bootcamp, there is lots of yelling going on, lots of different attitudes going on amongst the SRs who are still very new to this, and lots of issues! But it gets so much better. Believe me...the RDCs know what they are doing with your SRs! They get them shaped up and working as a team (the ones who don't comply could be discharged...or....asmoed (setback) ).
Hang in there....the first letters from your SRs sometimes are negative and discouraging but that is very normal. It gets much better in a few weeks!
Also, mail is held from them for about 2 weeks, until the Recruit Mail Petty Officer is trained...so you won't get letters for a while either (they can't write until this is done either).
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Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on April 19, 2013 at 6:53am
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Melanie - Here is the link to the 06/07/2013 PIR GROUP:
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir06072013
We'll see you over there!
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Comment by donna93 on April 19, 2013 at 6:46am
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Momwhoisproud--Got my first letter yesterday also and mine said basically the same. Said some were not following orders and their PIR might get pushed back two weeks---Sure hope things get better. Just finished writing him back and tried to encourage him.
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Comment by Melanie on April 19, 2013 at 6:45am
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I got my form letter yesterday, I was glad to see his handwriting. My SR has a confirmed PIR of June 7th. Because my middle son and stepson are graduating high school that same day we are going to have to split up. I felt so bad seeing my SR list his 4 attendee names-he doesn't know the situation yet. I'm going to the PIR and bringing his grandparents. I feel so bad about missing my middle son and step sons graduation but there wasn't a chance I'd miss the PIR. Hope it all works out.
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Comment by Jana on April 19, 2013 at 6:29am
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TEARS OF JOY FOR THOSE WHO GOT LETTERS. MAYBE ILL GET ONE TODAY Do you we will get a phone call this weekend??
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Comment by Momwhoisproud on April 19, 2013 at 6:25am
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FTLW. Thanks. That is what I thought. He did say HE was doing good so I will send him encouragement and wait for the next letter.
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Comment by michelek on April 19, 2013 at 1:23am
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Oh boy Hayden's mom, our last name is one of those very miss-pronounced ones and my son is not to good about nicknames,,, he better learn to like them quick!
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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