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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.

Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

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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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RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

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 06/12/2015 TG 31 - 9 Divisions (205-212, and 931)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 06/12/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 39
Latest Activity: Jun 21, 2015

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N4M'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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You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 06/12/2015 TG 31 - 9 Divisions (205-212, and 931) to add comments!

Comment by CatMom509 on April 24, 2015 at 12:56pm: Hi!

Welcome to Navy for Moms!!

My Sailor Daughter's PIR was March 2013--can't believe how fast time has flown!. She is an IT3 (Information Systems Technician, Petty Officer Third Class). I primarily provide scriptural encouragement for the PIR groups, Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) and a few of the other groups that I am a member of. I'll also help out with anything that I am familiar with--all kinds of tidbits I learned during my daughter's Boot Camp experience~~ This site really made the time go much faster. I'm so thankful that my Sailor daughter sent me the link for this awesome group of friends when she enlisted!! Count 9 Fridays and before you know it, you'll be seeing your baby again at PIR!! Here we go!!!

Comment by diannep on April 24, 2015 at 7:54am: ...also, check the PAGES section, to the right and above on this page, for lots more info! The Family Guide is a great source of info.

Comment by diannep on April 24, 2015 at 7:54am: Welcome to the new members! Ladies, if you just joined, please scroll back through the posts on the pages here because we have answered lots of questions and posted info about PIR, hotels, etc

Comment by diannep on April 24, 2015 at 7:53am: Good Morning!

Just keep in mind that the mail is held from the SRs for about 2 weeks until the Recruit Mail Petty Officer is trained for their division. Usually on a Sunday (but not always), they are finally allowed to write for the first time, and once their letters are collected, they are given their held mail. That is why they may write you and ask why you haven't written....because they got YOUR letters after they had written their own to you. After this, they will receive mail M-F, but can only mail out on Mondays.

Comment by kagea on April 24, 2015 at 7:34am: Momack,

My son is also Ship 12 Div 208. I got my letter yesterday as well. I have so much to send him already. LOl! I am glad that I bought a book of stamps on Monday. My son will be going to MA school. What about your child?

Comment by Carla on April 24, 2015 at 12:05am: Sorry... Posting from my phone... I meant a place to send letters!! Lol

Comment by Carla on April 24, 2015 at 12:04am: Got my form letter today... Ship 11 Division 205! So glad to have done concrete info and a leave till send letters! We're thinking of driving up... not sure yet :)

Comment by diannep on April 23, 2015 at 11:45pm: Welcome, proudmama! It is most cost effective to rent a car...there are deals out there. But some would prefer to use the taxi service....this can get costly though....If you are comfortable renting a car, do....you can still take the shuttle (taxi but at a shuttle rate) to/from PIR if you want....it is about $3/pp each way...but shuttle fare from/to the airport is a little costly. Sarge is a good one to book for this. He holds a MeetandGreet for the sailors' families the night before PIR. 847 212 0246

Comment by proudmama (Nuke school MM) on April 23, 2015 at 10:04pm: Howdy from San Antonio! Just got the letter - Ship 11 Div 205. Just booked airfare and am looking for hotels. Do most families rent cars? Not sure if there are shuttles from hotels or Navy Lodge.

Comment by Momack on April 23, 2015 at 9:45pm: Diannep: thank you so much. Will get on the reservation stuff tomorrow! So happy to have such great support on this site. I promise to pay it forward. Thanks