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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
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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
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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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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 MIMI1414 ship 9 div 255 on May 26, 2013 at 9:16am
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Diannep, thank you for your encouragementl. I know that we all try to stay strong for our recruits, but it is nice to have this site for us moms who also need as much support as they do. I thought this site was very good but didn't realize how much I rely on everyones comments, feelings and emotions (because they are just like mine) and knowing that I am right where I belong too!! I will let her know all this informaiton and take it day by day ! Enjoy the rest of this weekend !
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Comment by awhitaker933 on May 26, 2013 at 9:06am
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Good morning everyone! I got my first phone call yesterday and see that allot of families did as well. I never got the form letter but he said he was in medical but did not elaborate. Either way, he sounded good and already like a different person. I asked how it was and he said that he's getting through it. He was a personal trainer prior to leaving to the physical part wasn't an issue but he said it was mentally challenging. He said he will stay in Great Lakes for his A school and would be able to drive home on weekends. Is that true?
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Comment by NavyMom1207 (Ship 12/Div 247) on May 26, 2013 at 8:34am
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Good morning! A big heart-felt thank you to all the moms on this site for all your support. It is truly so helpful to hear from the veteran moms and those who are in the same status as me.
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Comment by Dansmom Ship3Div254 on May 26, 2013 at 8:19am
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Received call Saturday @ 3:30 for about 30 min. (847) area code. He had difficulty connecting. It took about 4 tries. Sounded good and fairly positive. It was great to hear his voice!
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Comment by diannep on May 26, 2013 at 8:09am
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Good Morning!
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MIMI: Be sure to write to your SR and tell her that her feelings right now are very very normal. She is still in the very hard part of bootcamp (it starts getting better around Training Week 4, which is about Bootcamp Week 5).....believe me, we N4Moms veterans hear this all of the time on this site and went through it with our own sailors. Remind her that A School is a totally different thing...contact with family/friends is restored for her and the atmosphere at A School is more like college. Although still strict, it is nothing like bootcamp. Remind her that better days are coming for her....and as a sailor!
eileen: There is no overnight Liberty for any of the sailors, even those staying in GL for A School. Just daytime.
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NavyMom1207 We got a call yesterday as well and it didn't sound like she was doing to good. I tried hard to keep the conversation upbeat and asked her everything under the sun, but I could still tell that she was still being broken down. Hope next call will be better. It was bitter sweet for me I was excited to hear from her but hated that she was still being broke down.
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Comment by CatMom509 on May 26, 2013 at 2:48am
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eileenc,
It's up in the air right now if they will actually leave for A school on July 4th (the official answer from RTC) or hopefully, they will leave on Friday the 5th early, early morning, like 1:00 am and on. If they have liberty on July 4th, they will be able to spend the day with you, but will have to report back by 8:00 pm (leave from you at 7:00 pm) to RTC to get ready to leave for the airports.
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Comment by eileencham on May 26, 2013 at 2:23am
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ok so if they get the 4th of July off - what liberties do they have? Are they on any kind of a curfew? do they have to report somewhere? Or could my daughter stay with me in a hotel room and do some sight seeing around Illinois?
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Comment by Ship 13 div249 on May 26, 2013 at 1:08am
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My son has a cold and getting 3 teeth pulled. He was tired when he called tonight, and I am wishing it gets better. I pray all of our recruits have a good week, and that even though they are broken down, soon start to get built up. I dont like it. But pray God gives them all the strength they NEED.
Pages (9)
- 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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