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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 06/13/2014 TG 31 - 7 Divisions (197-202, and 931)
Information
This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on June 13, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 56
Latest Activity: Apr 15, 2015
WELCOME to PIR 06/13/2014! 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"
Discussion Forum
Ship 03 (USS Hopper) Divisions 199 and 200 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Jacob94mom Jun 15, 2014. 135 Replies 5 Likes
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 931
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by diannep Jun 10, 2014. 38 Replies 4 Likes
Ship 09 (USS John F Kennedy) Divisions 201 and 202 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Ladyrocker Jun 7, 2014. 65 Replies 9 Likes
PIR 6/13/14 ship 09 div 201
Started by Alexis. Last reply by Dilian Jun 5, 2014. 3 Replies 1 Like
Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 197 and 198 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by dentalchick May 31, 2014. 48 Replies 6 Likes
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 May 29, 2014. 7 Replies 2 Likes
^^^^BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST ! ^^^^
Started by diannep. Last reply by Beertjes'Mama May 23, 2014. 1 Reply 2 Likes
Trivia Tuesdays - Winner gets PICTURES! :)
Started by xcass. Last reply by xcass May 20, 2014. 2 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by diannep on April 23, 2014 at 5:50pm
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For those who do not have their own military ID, just make sure to either book the reservation at Navy Lodge in your SR's name, or put an explanation in the "notes" section of the reservation (if there is one?) that this if for Navy Bootcamp Graduation and your sailor's name is ________.
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USNwife: What great ideas! I'm always so impressed with the creativity in dealing with the absences of mommies/daddies when it comes to their children!
Lydia: When your grandson goes to PIR and sees his daddy marching, tell him that will be one of the best days of his life! He will be so very proud of him and his daddy will be so very happy to see him again. I think ladies like USNwife will be of great benefit to your family so I hope you can stay in touch with ones who have "been there" and know what it is like.
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Comment by MaryNavywife/mom on April 23, 2014 at 4:03pm
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Lydia, when my children were little we made Friday pizza fun night. It meant one week closer to daddy being home from deployment. Also, you can take a jar and fill it with Hersey kisses and name the jar "Daddy Kisses." Each night after dinner your grandson can have a daddy kiss. I know it's hard. Just keep reminding him that his daddy loves him and isn't going to be gone forever! Hugs!
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Comment by Lydia ship03 div200 on April 23, 2014 at 3:44pm
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I haven't got a letter yet. Feeling pretty down today. I just want curl up in bed and wake up in June. Its hard I just want to call my son and tell to come on over for dinner. My grandson is taking his daddy being gone pretty hard too. Hes 8 years old and seems to be angry and sad sometimes. Any advise would be appreciated.
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Jacob94mom, I just went to https://www.navy-lodge.com and made my reservations.
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Comment by Jacob94mom on April 23, 2014 at 2:51pm
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Now that I have an official date- where do I find info on the Navy Lodge? It isn't in the brochure they sent. Only the Navy Gateway.
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Just got my letter! Ship 03 Div 199
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Comment by CatMom509 on April 23, 2014 at 10:32am
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Hi Friends!
"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast,
immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,
knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord."
I Corinthians 15:58
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Good Morning! I too am a N4Moms veteran on here for over 4 yrs now to help! Please read the pages section above and to the right for lots of info. Ask any questions on here that you have and we will be happy to answer! Welcome to Bootcamp!
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on April 22, 2014 at 11:20pm
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Hi everyone I am one of the volunteers here to help you through this experience :) I know how hard this is for so many of you. And as hard as it is to believe the boot camp time will pass pretty quickly. I always say the days drag by but the weeks pass quickly. I was a mess when my daughter was there. I didn’t have much time to prepare as she was only in DEP one month and then she was gone. I was always wondering what she was doing and how she was. But it all turned out great and it is so hard for me to believe it has been almost 4 years. Now she is a Sailor and is married to a Sailor and they have a baby girl who is my first grand baby :) She was born July 24th and I was there <3 She is simply perfect and has already stolen my heart. :) After almost four years on this site I am still here helping others get through this experience and I love it. If you have any questions or concerns please just let us know. We are here to help you :) And please feel free to send me a friend request if you like. I am happy to help in any way I can.
Try to find something fun to do and stay busy. If you have little ones at home there are several things you can do to make this journey a little easier for the, Make a paper chain with a link for each day they have left in boot camp and let them remove one link each day. It will help them see that this is only temporary. Other have also put a quarter in a jar for every day left and each week allowed the child/children to use the money for an ice-cream cone or even for a special card to send to their recruit, gumballs or gummy bears in a jar work well too and they get a tiny little treat each day. So many things can make it a better experience for them. Welcome to your PIR group, we are happy to have you here :)
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