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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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 07/03/2014 TG 34 - 5 Divisions (211-214, and 934)
Information
This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on July 3, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 34
Latest Activity: Oct 8, 2014
WELCOME to PIR 07/03/2014! 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"
Discussion Forum
Ship 11 (USS Kearsarge) Divisons 213 and 214 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by charlotteh Jul 1, 2014. 25 Replies 1 Like
Ship 09 (USS John F Kennedy) Divisions 211 and 212 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by 2boysandamom Jun 19, 2014. 9 Replies 0 Likes
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Jun 15, 2014. 2 Replies 1 Like
^^^^BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST^^^^
Started by diannep. Last reply by diannep Jun 12, 2014. 2 Replies 2 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by diannep on June 10, 2014 at 3:06pm
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Just to add to Lala's post: My contact at RTC said you should not be giving your SR's name to any social media site, including FB. I believe Lala told me that they will no longer ask for that in order for you to be accepted into the group. I just checked with Brian (RTC) yesterday on this.
So all is good!
Also, please know that as with all social media sites, as long as you are not posting terribly personal info here, your posts are fine. Don't want to run anyone off!
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Comment by kcismyid11 on June 10, 2014 at 12:18pm
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Also to Craig that was a wonderful letter.
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Thank you Lala for posting that.
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 10, 2014 at 11:10am
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Good morning everyone, Please don't worry about any info you sent to Thomas on the facebook groups. We have had people try to join our facebook groups in the past who should not be in them. We don't even know why they try to join but assume they are looking for info about our military. Because the people who want to harm America are always looking for info. So, Tom was just trying to make it safer for those in the groups by asking people enough info to make sure they really do have a recruit in boot camp and should be allowed into your facebook group. I promise he is a good person who is a volunteer for the USO and holds huge corporate events to honor our military through his regular job. He would never use your info for anything bad. We do our best to keep unwanted people out of the facebook groups and he will no longer ask for names. The difference in facebook and this Navyformoms.com is there (facebook) you have to ask to join and become a member to see what is posted on our groups. On this (navyformoms.com) anyone in www (world wide web) can see everything that is posted and doesn't have to join to see it. Unless that has recently changed. So please know, we are all doing our best on facebook and on this site to help you get through the boot camp experience and to learn about OPSEC and be safe wherever you are online or in public :) I think we can all work together to make this the best experience possible. If you have requested to join your facebook group and have not been added yet please send me a message here on this site and I will make sure you get added quickly. Thanks so much :-D
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Good one, Craig! Thanks for sharing with the ladies!
Good Morning!
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Comment by ChristyWA on June 10, 2014 at 9:25am
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Craig What a wonderful letter to Mom's! Thank you so much for writing this, there is a lot of good information for our SR's in this letter. Also how you let your mother know too, how much you treasured her support!! Very touching!
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Comment by debmil24 on June 10, 2014 at 8:05am
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Craig thank you for the wonderful letter. I cried when I read it and will follow your advice.
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Comment by CatMom509 on June 10, 2014 at 4:05am
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Gals,
Please ead the awesome and very informative letter that our N4M veteran Craig has written to all of you!!
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Comment by Craig on June 9, 2014 at 11:13pm
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Friends,
"Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders
You have done. The things You planned for
us no one can recount to You; were I to speak
and tell of them, they would be too many
to declare."
Psalm 40:5
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