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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
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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
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 06/14/2013 TG 31 - 9 Divisions (221-228, 931)
Information
This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 06/14 /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: 69
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013
WELCOME to PIR 06/14/2013! 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 May 27, 2013 at 12:41pm
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Happy Memorial Day everyone :)
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Comment by diannep on May 27, 2013 at 8:54am
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Happy Memorial Day! Good Morning!
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Comment by FLA NavyMom1501 on May 27, 2013 at 6:32am
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HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY and good morning everyone.
We'll be presenting a Memorial Day Ceremony at the Douglas Munro U.S. Coast Guard Monument in our town, then off to patrol the local waterways. Have a great day!
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Comment by CatMom509 on May 27, 2013 at 1:21am
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Also, Holiday Inn Express in Waukegan is in the same vicinity as the hotels that Diannep mentioned and it has a hot serve yourself breakfast!
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vysc3: If you want a hotel near Sarge's MeetandGreet, here are some:
Courtyard Inn Waukegan/Gurnee
Springhill Suites Waukegan/Gurnee
Residence Inn Waukegan/Gurnee
They all have shuttle service or you could use Sarge's shuttle service.
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Comment by ellen0502 on May 26, 2013 at 10:03pm
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I stayed at the Navy Lodge a year ago and it was very nice, it has now gone through remodeling so even better, The staff there is great and the bag breakfast is the best for taking with you to PIR. The Navy lodge is also very close to the RTC, just a little over a mile or a right turn, right turn, left turn, right turn, right turn and another to the gate right turn...LOL. It actually is in the Navy Family Housing, but not gated, and in the evening you can hear TAPS from the base. Sarge can also help if you don't want to drive, but it is easy from the NL.
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Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on May 26, 2013 at 9:38pm
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BUT I went to the M & G at the Ramada...it was the only one there was two years ago :-).
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Sarge also has taxi service (for a modest fee) from the Lodge for the Meet and Greet.
The Lodge is the closest to RTC.
I only favor it because I stayed there. :-)
I thought it was quiet and clean. It is located within one of the Housing areas for Naval Station Great Lakes.
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Comment by vysc3 on May 26, 2013 at 9:26pm
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OK help. We made our reservations at the Ramada Inn because we thought Sarge's M & G was there. Being that we are from the boondocks we want to drive as little as possible. So now either way at the Ramada or the Navy Lodge we have to drive. At the Lodge we could get the breakfast in a bag and the shuttle w/sarge. Any opinions?
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You're welcome, willsmom!
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
- After PIR – Liberty; Sailors Departures from RTC/USO Info
- Boot Camp Questionnaires
- Flags and Pennants that your DIV can earn while at BC
- PIR: What to Wear/Bring and Tips; PIR Reference Group/Forum links; GPS for RTC
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