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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
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
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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."
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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 06/28/2013. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 91
Latest Activity: May 6, 2014
~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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Wow, when you put it that way it doesn't sound like a long time at all1
Good Morning All.... 5 Fridays down... Only 3 to go.. (well technically 4 but the 4th one should find us right next to our Sailors)... Have a Great Day!!!!!!!!!!
Good Morning!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z0TicG67ac
This guy explains B.A.S.E.S.
diannep- Thanks, now I can stop referring to him as a flag! lol In one of the letters J said they did an intense exercise called "Base". He told me to google it, but I didn't find anything when I tried. Do you happen to know what he is talking about?
J'sWife: Flag carriers, called "sticks," are at the front of the division so that is a great thing for visibility!
diannep- You are cracking me up! Last week, in one of his letters, my husband literally used the phrase, "Happy petty officer, happy life." I about lost it, to hear it used that way! lol
Ellen0502- that picture is priceless! the fact you were able to identify his chin is amazing on it's own. My husband is supposedly holding some sort of flag in PIR (as long as he doesn't lose the spot). Which is a good thing because he's not that tall. lol And it might be easier to spot him that way. I wish I could find some pictures of him from from boot camp now. Is facebook the only option for finding pictures while they're in boot?
Hello All,
"A man's steps are directed by the Lord.
How can anyone understand his own way?"
Psalm 20:24
I didn't find my son during the ceremony either. My other son and my brother found him when he marched in, and then had to point him out to me. He was in the second to the last row and almost directly behind another SAILOR. So, just like all the pictures posted of him during BC and A School, only part of him was showing.
I did find him pretty fast after PIR though!
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