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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)
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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
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Comment by Anna on May 16, 2014 at 4:48pm
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That's helpful to know, I'll end up driving so I don't have to worry if I need to extend my flight if he ends up not shipping out to A school the next day. All my love.
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Comment by CatMom509 on May 16, 2014 at 3:04pm
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Happy Friday!!
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace
as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow
with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."
Romans 15:13
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Comment by diannep on May 16, 2014 at 12:16pm
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I forgot to introduce myself. My son was at bootcamp in 2009. He has now been honorably discharged and is back home, is completing his Bachelors with the GI Bill (hopefully this summer!), has a baby son and is working. Hard for me to realize that it was so long ago that he was up there! Seems like just yesterday! I stay on the PIR groups (have been since he graduated bootcamp!) to help out since I love being here. It is so exciting to see the new families here with SRs starting their careers in the Navy. Your N4Moms veteran team loves helping!
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It is possible, Anna, that they won't fly out until Sat. But you never know. For those staying in GL for A School, they will have Thurs after PIR, Fri, Sat and Sun Daytime Liberty! Your SR/sailor will not know until right before PIR which day he/she flies out.
Good Morning Everyone!
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Comment by 2boysandamom on May 16, 2014 at 8:30am
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Hi Anna- my sons in the same ship09 div212. Hoping for the fourth to spend with him as well.
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My husband is ship09 div212 I just received his letter with the graduation information. Do you guys think that they will let them have the Fourth of July off since it's a federal holiday? That would be amazing!!!
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Greetings!
"If anyone serves, he should do it
with the strength God provides.
So that in all things God may be
praised through Jesus Christ."
I Peter 4:16
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2boysandamom: Love your screen name....so cute!
Hmmm.....sadly, they may not know this until shortly before PIR. When they have Wed PIR before Thanksgiving Day, they normally have Thanksgiving Day Liberty and fly out the next day. Not sure if it will be the same for July 4th. I would suggest that when you make your own travel plans, if you are flying, that you try and stay at least until Saturday, just in case. Because....if they happen to have Friday there in GL (and we just don't know yet), you would also be able to meet your sailor at the airport and wait there until the plane departs (with proper ID).
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Hi!
Welcome to Navy for Moms!!
My Sailor Daughter's PIR was March 2013--can't believe how fast time has flown!. She is an IT3 (Information Systems Technician, Petty Officer Third Class) stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. I primarily provide scriptural encouragement for the PIR groups, Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) and a few of the other groups that I am a member of. I'll also help out with anything that I am familiar with--all kinds of tidbits I learned during my daughter's Boot Camp experience~~ This site really made the time go much faster. I'm so thankful that my Sailor daughter sent me the link for this awesome group of friends when she enlisted!! Count 9 Fridays and before you know it, you'll be seeing your baby again at PIR!! Here we go!!!
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With graduation being on Thurs. July 3rd would the sailors fly out on the 4th for A school or would they get liberty that day and fly out on Saturday? Just hoping to spend the 4th of July with him. Thanks
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