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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
...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 07/11/2014 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 Momma Bear on May 24, 2014 at 5:44pm
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Got my call today also. I wanted to hug him right through the phone! It was so good hearing his voice although his voice was a little shaky. He is Ship 02 Division 935! Can't wait to see him. I miss him a bunch! Thanks CatMom509 for your verses.
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Comment by Missingmysoninvabeach on May 24, 2014 at 4:19pm
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Got a call from my son this morning! It was so good to hear his voice. Can't wait to see him in July.
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Comment by CatMom509 on May 24, 2014 at 4:09pm
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Greetings!
"Be still in the presence of the Lord,
and wait patiently for Him to act."
Psalm 37:7
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Comment by diannep on May 24, 2014 at 10:05am
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Good Morning!
There is no problem making hotel reservations now if you want to. Unless you are booking on an internet travel discount site (they have their own rules), there is usually no penalty if you have to cancel for any reason, up to the day before or day of PIR.
RE: booking flights. If you find good rates now, you can book. But we suggest you go with Southwest Airline,s if possible, where there is no change fee in the event your SR gets delayed in training and you have to change. 2 bags check for free too. They fly into Milwaukee WI (45 min to GL) and Chicago-Midway (hour+ to GL depending on traffic).
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zacsfan,
Check out TripAdvisor or other reviews on the Ramada as it is "iffy." The other recommended hotels by past Navy moms are the Residence Inn (diannep), Holiday Inn Express (I stayed here and liked it--had a hot serve yourself breakfast), Springhill Suites, and Courtyard by Marriot--all in Waukegan/Gurnee and close to Sarge's Meet & Greet, about 10 mins from RTC. Also, Navy Lodge, where you need to have the room under your SR's name, but nothing else special to stay there.
If your SR has the initials and hometowns they are from, that is about all you can put here on this main page, then when another mom recognizes the SR could be hers, go off, friend each other and private message each other where you can share more info (including names) there. The SRs only know each other by last names.
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Friends,
Here's a friendly "heads up" that calls might be coming in from your SRs this weekend. Please have your cell phones with you at all times, charged and ready--upstairs, downstairs, on your nightstand, out in the backyard, out with you to get the mail, in the bathroom for any reason.... If going somewhere loud, put it on "vibrate" and slip it into your pocket. If going somewhere out of range, record an outgoing message that your SR can hear and possibly leave a message for you.
Your phones could show "847", "Pay Phone", "Governement". Pick up all unfamiliar calls! If it's a sales call, please just politely tell them "No, thank you."
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Comment by zacsfan on May 24, 2014 at 12:01am
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How do we find parents with kids in our kids division?
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Welcome! And thank you for the great info. We are thinking of staying at the ramada. Any other suggestions? And what kind of things did you take them to do? I can't wait!
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Welcome to the group, Sallie!
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Comment by ellen0502 on May 23, 2014 at 11:30am
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Good morning!
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