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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.

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~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 annette (ship14-div251) on May 16, 2013 at 5:05pm: My son's PIR was last August. He just finished his A school for ET at Great Lakes this month. They fought but when they needed to, they worked together. They ended up being the only division to get the Battle E flag. I just know boot camp is hard enough without turmoil among your fellow recruits. I

Comment by diannep on May 16, 2013 at 4:57pm: FTLW: I have a feeling that they won't fly out until Friday....just my guess. I think that answer from RTC is a "standard" answer given for any PIR group, don't you? I hope that the ladies on here prepare to stay longer up there...just in case.

Comment by CatMom509 on May 16, 2013 at 4:55pm: Hello Friends,

    "A man of knowledge uses words with restraint,

     and a man of understanding is even-tempered."

                                                   Proverbs 17:27

Comment by annette (ship14-div251) on May 16, 2013 at 4:13pm: Nikki, it looks like our children are in the same division. I cannot wait for the first letter to see how it is going. My son's division had some issues with fighting, so I am hoping they will not have to deal with that.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on May 16, 2013 at 4:09pm: Okay...brain woke up and I figured it out, found what you are referring too.

Here it is from RTC FB PAO (Public Affairs Office):

(Names removed for OPSEC and bold and italic mine)

Q. RTC, since PIR will be on Wednesday, 3 July, 2013, will the Sailors flying out to "A" School or training fly out on Thursday, 4 July or Friday, 5 July or Saturday, 6 July? Knowing this will help families better plan their weekend. Thank you for all you do.

A. U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command Ladies, recruits will still depart RTC the day after their PIR, July 4, in the vast majority of cases. The only exceptions may be when tickets are unavailable. Your recruit will receive his or her ticket and orders the week of graduation.

Please make sure you read all of PAO's response carefully....

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on May 16, 2013 at 4:00pm: ...but I will add that it is RTC's goal to get the Sailors to their Schools asap. It just doesn't always work that way.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on May 16, 2013 at 3:57pm: I ask because the Sailors don't know their true itinerary until a few days before PIR. Plans are made but they can change. I'm sure that they have something in writing somewhere but even if that is so early on like this, it is not public knowledge and you would have to be one "in the know" to get that...and then you wouldn't be able to release it ...OPSEC.

I'll give you a personal example:

My son had a Thursday PIR on Memorial day weekend. The entire time it was planned that he would be leaving on Friday for his A school. Even when he called after BST-21 (Battlestations - their "final". He was in the second Division of his TG and had done BST-21 the Thursday a week before PIR with the first group to go through), it was still planned that it was Friday...no actual itinerary or tickets.

I arrived in GL on Tuesday before PIR (I wanted a day to settle in) and he called while I was in the air to let me know that plans had changed and that he was not leaving until Sunday.

Luckily, I had booked until Sunday in anticipation of this (from the advice of the moms on here)

It was a "gamble". I knew that he very well could have left the day after PUIR. They are flown commercial and so it depends on if flights are available...A schools have staff on hand to take them etc. Commands can go a bit "dark" when it is a holiday weekend.

I am in no way trying to discredit anyone...I just would hat to have you plan and then miss out on time with your Sailor.

Now, can your own plans be changed, flights etc. Yes of course and many have done so. Really, it is up to you and something that you have to "weigh and measure" and have peace with.

I decided that if he indeed left the day after that I would have a vacation day or two :-)

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on May 16, 2013 at 3:57pm: GoodLuckMen - Okay...I am brain dead today..."PRC" ?

Who is that and what did they tell you?

Comment by Ship 13 div249 on May 16, 2013 at 3:34pm: Ship 11 here, and still sending a letter a day to our recruit. Booked at the Navy Lodge yesterday for 3 days but after reading what the PRC said, there is no need.He is shipping out on July 4th. And I was stressin on giving him his cell phone or laptop at the airport, now I have figured out to mail a loadable gift card to A school, which then he could get his own cell phone.