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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.

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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.

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ALUMNI OF PIR 06/07/2013 TG 30 - 11 Divisions (213-220, 812, 813 and 930)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 06/07 /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

sjtina

Cor

Location: Great Lakes, illinois
Members: 97
Latest Activity: Dec 7, 2016

WELCOME to PIR 06/07/2013! 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.

CLICK MEforN4M's Community GuidelinesandOPSEC.

~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".

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Comment by BoyWonderMom on June 8, 2013 at 8:04pm: Janet even if we are together now for a few days longer its bittersweet because I know what he really wanted was to get to SC together with the other Nukes, we have to make the best of it. Hopefully he will be on his way this week. You sound so sad, but I'm sure your son will be just fine. I know for us mothers that last contact means everything. Hope he gets to call you soon enough.

Comment by Janet (Grad Hold in BS) on June 8, 2013 at 7:54pm: The boy wonder mom --- enjoy your time ... I'm super jealous!!! Perhaps those who left today will be "indoctrinate class" long enough for your son to catch up.

Comment by BoyWonderMom on June 8, 2013 at 7:30pm: Hello ladies, still in the Navy Lodge and will be until Monday afternoon. My sailor is on hold for medical not that he's sick but because Nuke needs a special physical and his records from Florida are not here yet. So he was pretty upset days before PIR, we were too. I'm still am knowing that he wanted to be in SC with his friends at the same time. But the good thing about this is that we had all day yesterday to be together, went to eat, to the mall and we relaxed in the lodge were he took a shower and grab his beloved electronics. Took him back to base at 8:00. That was hard. This morning he called at 8:30 to be picked up. We went to Millenium Park, ate at a beautiful restaurant right there, went shopping downtown, to a comic shop, took so many amazing pictures!! Then we returned to the Logde and had delivery, now we are all listening to music and those BC tales! My sailor is relaxing. Tomorrow we have another liberty day, we will all take my oldest son to Ohare to flight back to FL. On PIR we got to seat with the VIP, the Commanding officer and all the staff because my brother in law is a Colonel with the Marines and he went to see his nephew PIR. So we really got lucky. It was a beautiful ceremony. When my sailor passed in front of us during the parade we took several pics of 214, so close it was amazing! I'm so very proud. Our sailors are amazing!

Comment by CatMom509 on June 8, 2013 at 6:17pm: Hello~~

     "I know that You can do all things;

      no plan of Yours can be thwarted."

                                             Job 42:2

Comment by Janet (Grad Hold in BS) on June 8, 2013 at 6:04pm: Thanks FTLW ---- I sent his things to A school by UPS. He should have them by Friday if UPS doesn't lose the box. I'm still so sad that I didn't get one more hug. I thought when I said goodbye on Friday that I'd see him one more time before he left. : (

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on June 8, 2013 at 5:37pm: I'm so sorry Janet. Big (((HUGS))) to you. He should hopefully get his address soon and you can send him his phone and computer.
Maybe he can get a "throw away" phone temporarily.

Comment by Janet (Grad Hold in BS) on June 8, 2013 at 3:50pm: I got my Sailor back to base on time last night but have been miserably sad all day. He misread his itinerary and we did not make it to the airport to visit one last time or give him his phone. I knew we should go at 4:00 just in case but my husband and teenage daughter didn't want to go that early. He is now in SC with no phone and no computer and I have cried all day!!! We had 7 hours but he was too exhausted to be his normal entertaining self. I miss my sailor.

Comment by diannep on June 8, 2013 at 9:31am: The Great Lakes/Chicago area so loves their sailors! It made all of us feel so special when there for my son's PIR when so many thanked my son for his service. He felt odd because he hadn't "served" yet but it made him feel proud, and he realized what a wonderful decision he made.

Hoping that there are more good times today at the airports and in the Chicago area for those with their sailors today! :-)

Good Morning!

Comment by ProudNavyMom#1 on June 7, 2013 at 11:53pm: Thank you FTLW! Couldn't have done it without you!!!!!!! God bless!!!

Comment by ProudNavyMom#1 on June 7, 2013 at 11:47pm: PIR was awesome! Spent a beautiful day with my Sailor! We will meet him at airport for one last hug before he leaves for A school. He is an awesome Sailor. Everywhere we went we were received with open arms because of him and what he represents. America the Beautiful! Thanks be to God Alleluia!!!