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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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ALUMNI OF PIR 06/21/2013 TG 32 - 9 Divisions (229-236 and 932)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 06/21 /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, Illinois
Members: 81
Latest Activity: Jun 18, 2014

WELCOME to PIR 06/21/2013! 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.

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forN4M's Community Guidelines and OPSEC.

~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 Navywife2012 on May 8, 2013 at 6:58pm: I'm going to get a light blue candle myself! Luckily they just built a family dollar in my verrrrrryyy small town!!!! My hubby has been gone 2 weeks today and it seems like its been a month!!! He worked nights and I go to school during the day so sometimes I don't even think about it but when I wake up and realize he's not here some mornings it's rough!!! I had him make videos for our son he's 21 months old and yesterday I was showing him the videos and he kept kissing the screen now that made me cry the rest of the night!!!!!!!!

Comment by Karen on May 8, 2013 at 6:58pm: Kim, My son left on 4/22. For the first week I cried every morning when I walked by his bedroom door. Finally I was able to walk by his room without crying and I thought I had crossed the bridge and the crying was over but I was wrong. This weekend when everyone was posting about their calls and I didnt get one the waterworks started again. I worried that something was wrong. Thankfully a lot of wise women on this site reminded me that No News Is Good News and the crying stopped again. I still have my moments of missing him so much it hurts and shedding a tear or two when something reminds me of him. Then I read a post on here by a woman whose son has passed away and I remember how lucky I am. He is still with us and these boot camp days will pass and I will have contact again. Hang in there. We are all in this together.

Comment by SRmomShip2Div932 on May 8, 2013 at 6:55pm: Me too, what a great idea! Hang tough ladies, we can do this. I know it is tough on us, I can't even imagine what our kids/husbands have been going through!

Comment by Kim F on May 8, 2013 at 6:48pm: Going to buy a blue candle, right now. Bless them all.

Comment by Kim~Made it to the fleet! on May 8, 2013 at 6:41pm: Ellen, Lindsay and SR Mom ship 2/div 932.... I appreciate all of your stories in response to my post. Whether we are Mom' or wives we are missing are SR's everyday. I have to remind myself that this is our new normal, not only is he gone for BC, but he is gone for the next 4 + yrs. I'm going to light a blue candle this evening for all of our SR's and think of each one of you. Thanks for all your support!

Comment by SRmomShip2Div932 on May 8, 2013 at 6:19pm: Kim, it happens to me all the time. My son has only been gone for 16 days but it feels like forever! He called last Sunday, but I was at work and didn't get to talk to him. My husband said he sounded tired and said that he had the stomach flu the first 3 days he was there, said that it was the worst he has ever felt ( he's 19) I lost it! And I too go to the grocery store and pick up his favorite food only to put it back..after I have my melt down of course. I know it will get easier as time goes on...but I honestly didn't think it would be this hard!

Comment by Lindsay on May 8, 2013 at 6:10pm: My husband has also been gone for 3 weeks and these last two days have been my hardest. I don't know what its like when its your child but i know its hard to be the wife :(

Comment by ellen0502 on May 8, 2013 at 6:06pm: kim, It happens, still does once and a while for me, and he's been in for over a year.

I was in the grocery store and reached for a box of my sons favorite Little Debbies. When I realized what I was doing and he wasn't there to eat them I had a meltdown.

A woman who was near me asked if I was ok and I said no, then explained my son was in BC and hadn't heard from him in 3 weeks. She listened very sweetly, and so did another gentleman who was near by. When I finished she gave me a hug, and the gentleman said "Tell your son thank you for his service." Needless to say the crying didn't stop, but I finished my shopping.

I have had people stop me when I am wearing my Navy Mom t-shirt and ask me to tell my son thank you for his service. I can now make it to my car before I cry. :)

Hang in there, it might not get better, but it will get easier!

Comment by Miz Panama on May 8, 2013 at 6:03pm: Kim, I am not a mom but I know the feeling I stop at cracker barrel to get a nice card and broke down too!! My husband has only been gone for two weeks and it seems like I haven't talk to him for longer! Hang in there...

Comment by Kim~Made it to the fleet! on May 8, 2013 at 5:55pm: Today has been a very hard day for me... It's been 3 wks already, I would think as time goes on my emotions would be less and far in between. I decided to stop at a card shop after work to find a nice encouraging card to send him ( besides all the letters) and I just broke down crying in the middle of the store, I guess it didn't help that they were also playing the Cat's in the Cradle song. I guess I am at the stage where I'm still sad he is gone, scared of the unknown but yet so ecstatic for June 21st. Any other mom's feeling this way?