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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 07/03/2013 TG 34 - 11 Divisions (247-256, and 934).
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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 07/03 /2013. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Location: Great Lakes. IL
Members: 82
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013
WELCOME to PIR 07/03/2013! 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 lisamark121 on June 20, 2013 at 10:15am
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So, does this mean we won't get getting any more phone calls until we receive the I am a Sailor call? I would really love to hear from my SR right now. I am waiting to see his letters this week, but I usually don't get mine until Fridays.
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Comment by Navymomx2 on June 20, 2013 at 9:49am
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I will definitely be praying for your daughter, RebaSnow! Praying for all these guys and gals a lot as they are coming down the home stretch. Getting so excited for PIR in just 12 days! Can't believe I will be packing a week from now to make the 18 hour drive from Cape Cod. So proud of our SRs and what they have accomplished. I will definitely have your daughter on my heart in prayer, though, as I know my daughter will have the same struggles when she goes in August. But I know that they can do ALL things through God who gives them strength! Phil 4:13 Have a blessed day, everyone!
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Comment by RebaSnow on June 20, 2013 at 9:14am
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Received a letter from my SR yesterday. She is doing well. Although she is struggling a little with her PFA and is very nervous she will not do well and may be held up another couple of weeks. Please pray for her to pass and do well. She has come so far and is doing so well. She just needs a little extra to get her where she needs to be. Thank you.
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 20, 2013 at 8:50am
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They are not posting the dates on FB :) private message only like we do it on this site. The bad thing is some people start a facebook group who have no idea of the OPSEC rules and they can post WAY TOO MUCH info.
I know that sometimes we as admins on the PIR groups on this site and on our facebook groups are thought of as taking OPSEC too far. It is true that the rules can be interpreted differently by different people. You will find some groups who allow you to use your Sailors first and last names and even those who will create a file or document where you can put their full name and even their address so that others can send them letters of encouragement. We are not trying to be mean by not allowing this in the groups we mentor. We do this for the protection of your recruits and Sailors. There are people who can use this type of information to bring harm to your recruits and later to your Sailors. You might say what harm can someone do with my recruit’s name and address? Well, the truth is that some recruits have received letters from strangers who claim to be one of their facebook friends or the friend of a friend. They begin writing letters and are very good at developing a relationship with a lonely recruit. Before long he thinks he has developed feelings for this “stranger” and he may be convinced after boot camp is over to send money so she can come for a visit. But airfare is expensive and he could end up sending hundreds of dollars and then never hear from this person again. Some have even met their “pen pal” and later gotten a girl pregnant and forced to pay child support for the next 20 years. Something like this did happen to a friend of mines son. And only after he sent over $700 to this girl for her to come and see him did his mom finally convince him he had been scammed. So OPSEC is not just about loose lips sinking ships. It’s about being smart and not putting too much info out there on the World Wide Web for every scammer in the world to see. Please don’t post too much personal info about your recruit or Sailor even if the group is private and warn your recruits that there are people out there like this and hopefully nothing like this will happen again.
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Comment by NaVyMoMmA on June 20, 2013 at 8:40am
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Lala... I would NEVER leave the N4M site. As a new Navy Mom - this site has been my saving grace. I just thought that the more info the better. Not really looking for BS dates as I already have that. It's just good to know that there are others (many others) going through what I am going through. And, wanted to just follow along. I actually NEVER post in the FB groups. But, thanks for all of the info :)
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We would love to have you in the facebook group but we also want you to stay active in this group. It is important to be active in both because we do have some members here on N4M's who "Don't do facebook" and we have some members on facebook who are not on this site. Both offer a lot of great information and we all work very hard to keep you all informed and help you through this experience. You should all be wary about what groups you join and not post too much personal info about your recruit/Sailor. No matter where you are practice OPSEC rules. And even though our facebook groups are closed there is no way to know if the members there or here are who they say they are. It is always best to just be safe :) I am one of the admins on the facebook groups and I love helping there and on this site :) I would have never survived the boot camp experience without Navy for Moms <3
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Comment by diannep on June 20, 2013 at 8:27am
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NavyMom: I hope the FB group is not showing BattleStations dates??? They are not allowed even in a "closed" FB group. You must message these to each other, either on FB or on here.
Kae'lynn: Here is the toll info for the Chicago area....
http://www.illinoistollway.com/tolls-and-i-pass/toll-information/ra...
You see where the toll amounts fluctuate so it is nice to have the IPass.
Good Morning All !
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NavyMom12/247 - Thank you - glad to be here... I would love to join the FB group as well, what is the group name? My son is also in Ship 12 Div 247 and I would like as much info as possible. We are almost there and my anxiety is a mess these days :/
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Comment by NavyMom12/247 on June 20, 2013 at 7:53am
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If anyone isn't in the Facebook for PIR 7/3 you should join! Also Donna Casey has a lot of the dates some of you are looking for!
Hang in there if your SRs are doing as well as mine (she "loves it!") Then they are fine and doing what needs to get done:) Last week was Hell week so they were very busy. Battle Stations are next week and then we get our I'm a Sailor call! Hooya!
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Comment by Ship 13 div249 on June 20, 2013 at 3:58am
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Only 12 days now. I am so excited. We got a letter today, which was good since we haven't gotten any calls for 2 weeks. He said it will only be one more call til graduation, and BattleStations is on Thursday and Friday its over. They will call home that day to say I am a Sailor. That is next Friday. So this Friday is PFA test, BattleStations next Thursday night til Friday. Ladies not too long now til we get to hug our Sailors!~ God give them the courage and strength to get through the rest of it, and soon we will see them!~ tc gbu all
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- N4M’s Community Guidelines and OPSEC
- SHIP/DIVISIONS ~~ What are they and how do they fill them?
- Calls from your SR
- RTC Website and RTC Family Guide links
- 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!
- Writing Letters ~ Jokes and Fun Stuff to include in your letters/Contact Lenses and Make-Up
- Boot Camp Questionnaires
- PIR: What to Wear/Bring and Tips; PIR Reference Group/Forum links; GPS for RTC
- LIVESTREAMING OF PIR SERVICE OVER INTERNET
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