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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
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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.
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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."
Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
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ALUMNI OF PIR 07/11/2014 TG 35 - 7 Divisions (215-218, 815-816 and 935)
Information
This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on July 11, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 46
Latest Activity: Jul 24, 2014
WELCOME to PIR 07/11/2014!
~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
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Jul 12, 2014. 4 Replies 1 Like
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 935
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Momma Bear Jul 1, 2014. 7 Replies 2 Likes
Ship 04 (USS Arleigh Burke) Divisions 815 and 816 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Grace Jun 28, 2014. 5 Replies 4 Likes
Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 217 and 218 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by NavyMomx2 Jun 27, 2014. 13 Replies 2 Likes
Ship 14 Div 17 - Photos
Started by HalfPint Ship 14 Div 217. Last reply by JTMom Jun 23, 2014. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 13 (USS Marvin Shields) Division 215 and 216 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by donnajanej Jun 19, 2014. 4 Replies 0 Likes
^^^^BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST^^^^
Started by diannep. Last reply by Lois Jun 13, 2014. 1 Reply 1 Like
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Comment by diannep on June 11, 2014 at 12:45pm
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AJSR: Other hotels that have gotten good reviews from ladies on here are:
Navy Lodge (book in SR's name if you don't have military ID)
Springhill Suites, Courtyard Inn, Residence Inn, Holiday Inn Express....4-5 miles to RTC....call these hotels directly and ask them for the NAVY GRAD rate. Navy Lodge doesn't have one....already has very good rates for you.
You may want to attend Sarge's MeetandGreet since his will be full of great info. It is close to the hotels listed above.
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I added the BattleStations discussion above in the Forum as well.
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Comment by ellen0502 on June 11, 2014 at 12:22pm
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Your Division Discussions have been posted up above. Please use them to get to know each other even better on a "Divisional" basis...BUT remember that you all have the same PIR date and many of you will be attending the same Meet and Greets...so please continue to post on the Main Wall here.
Also, please continue to post your questions for us "veteran moms" on the Main Wall here. We can have 7-8 active PIR groups going at one time..that's 70-90 Divisions! We try to get to the Division Discussions but with that many it is difficult! We don't want to miss any questions as ALL are important...no dumb ones...for many of you this is your first servicemember and we want to be there to help and lend support.
Division discussions now open for business!!
POST AWAY!!
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N4M's Community Guidelines and OPSEC apply to the Discussion Forum area as well. The Division Discussions are viewable to all...just like the Main Wall here.
Please do not start new division discussions!!!!
The Discussion Forum area is set to show titles only and is set at ten titles at a time for now. (This can be adjusted by the group creator or an administrator)
It is also set to show the "latest activity" (there are other settings). So whatever has just had a reply added to it will "bump" that Discussion to the top. The discussion will stay up there at the top because it has had "activity"…until the next Discussion has activity. If there are over ten discussions, whatever is at the bottom will disappear from view…but not from the Discussion Forum. So, if you want to see more, click "view all" at the bottom right hand corner of the discussion forum area. It is right up there above the Blue Comment Wall bar.
When you view a discussion forum by clicking on the title, the first post ever made will be the first one on the first page. To get to the most current reply, click “Last Reply” directly underneath that particular Discussion.
~You will also notice that in the top right corner in any post that you do you will see an "x". This is so you may delete your post if you need too. You will also see the “x” on any post you make anywhere else on the site.
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Comment by JCVNAVYMOM on June 10, 2014 at 9:38pm
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I got my second official call this afternoon. The one on Sunday was apparently a bonus! He sounded so good and is really enjoying this journey. He is easy for July 11th and the start of A school.
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Got 2nd phone call from my SR today. Div 218. Says things are great.
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Comment by CatMom509 on June 10, 2014 at 4:47pm
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AJSR_LUV,
The meet & greet is rather lowkey at the Ramada and please check out the revews on the travels sites for that hotel as they are "iffy."
A meet & greet is where info on how to get to PIR and what to do in the Great Lakes area is given out. Please look at the Events section in the lower left of this page for a much more informative and well-attended one~~
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Good Day!
"Keep me as the apple of Your eye;
hide me under the shadow of Your wings."
Psalm 17:8
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i made my reservation at the Ramada is this an okay hotel? they will have a met and great what is that?
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I bboked in my SR's name although my husband does have a miltary ID. The person taking the reservation didn't ask me for it, she just asked for my SR's name when I told her we will be there for PIR.
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