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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

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♥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 linda1963 on May 2, 2013 at 7:37pm: My son is in Ship 13 Div 229. I got the letter yesterday and agree it was nice to see his handwriting, only it is much neater than it was before he left!

Comment by SoProud on May 2, 2013 at 6:53pm: I received the form letter today, it was so nice to see my SR's handwriting. Suddenly his got beautiful handwriting. Ship 03 Div 234.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on May 2, 2013 at 5:37pm: Yeah...that's going to be kind of a "forced" thing for the recruits/future sailors. They have little storage in their racks. Just enough for their equipment and toiletries and then some small for personal belongings (which they didn't keep much of anyway) and mail. Some have sent mail back home after reading it for storage if they are running out of room. You can send them a manila envelope with postage on it to do so. Prepaid envelope is good too.

It's conditioning for when they get out into the fleet on a Ship. Zero room for the enlisted in the compartments. I saw a video made by a crew on a Ship and when they got to one room it had room to move about in. I though, "That has GOT to be an officers room!"

A school rooms aint that big either :-).

Comment by Anissia's Mommy Ship 02 Div 932 on May 2, 2013 at 5:20pm: I'd be highly surprised if she did donate, seeing that she is a master hoarder :) It took us 3 days, 2 bags of trash & 1 copy paper size box, to organize her vanity. Yet another thing I hope the Navy can teach her, less really is more!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on May 2, 2013 at 5:01pm: Happy Birthday to your Twins CO!

Comment by diannep on May 2, 2013 at 4:55pm: Annisia'sMom: Maybe her heart was touched that her pretty shoes could really be treasured by someone else who really needed them...and like FTLW said, she donated them. Does she have really tiny feet? Because like FTLW said, it is possible if they didn't not have her size right now, she could keep them until they do have her size in running shoes. That is the only reason I can think where they would allow a SR to temporarily keep their own shoes.

Happy Birthday to your daughter...glad you could celebrate her birth today courtesy of your wonderful co worker! :-)

Happy Birthday, CO, to your twins this weekend!

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on May 2, 2013 at 4:14pm: Glad he probably has his wallet. It is my twins Bday on the 5th. No celebration for twin 2, but I sent a box to twin 1. Will do birthday in a box when I go for PIR.

We did Christmas in a Box for the first one's PIR.

Comment by Anissia's Mommy Ship 02 Div 932 on May 2, 2013 at 4:09pm: She has had them for about 1 year, but they were more for show than anything else, so they still looked new. Her recruiter told her that they might let her keep them to run in. I did, however, receive her small make-up bag. There was no make-up in it, so I guess she must have been able to put it in the sock!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on May 2, 2013 at 4:01pm: Hmmm...were her Nikes old? She maybe donated them? Usually they do not get to keep shoes. I know that I did read ne where a young man did because they did not have his shoe size, but he had large feet!

Still, someone else mentioned this a while back. I wonder if they let them keep them if they run out of their shoe size? Will have to search the site a bit.

Happy Birthday to your daughter! That was so sweet of your co-worker! Yes He does!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on May 2, 2013 at 3:58pm: You can see the "valuables sock" in the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvKAhmgkoj4 at 05:11 or 05:12 and from about 06:05 on for a bit.

It is very, very brief so you may have to replay those sections over! It is tucked into their Smurfs (navy sweats) Run your cursor along the viewing line and you will get the times so you don't have to watch the whole thing over and over :-)