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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 07/12/2013 TG 35 - 9 Divisions (257-264, and 935)
Information
This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 07/12/2013. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Location: Great Lakes. IL
Members: 70
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013
WELCOME to PIR 07/12/2013! 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.
~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".
Comment Wall
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Comment by CatMom509 on May 30, 2013 at 5:15am
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Luke's mom,
Especially since there isn't an "edit" button here, but you can always Copy and Paste it into a new Comment box to make corrections, then delete the incorrect one by hitting the X in the upper right corner of your posts.
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Comment by Craig on May 30, 2013 at 3:10am
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ellen - Walang anuman! or I could use the new 'hip" term of Mabuts instead of Mabuti....
Not sure if I showed you, my wife and I went on a medical mission 2 months ago. We went with 9 US doctors and 11 dentist. We provided medical and dental care to about 4000 people. You wouldn't believe how many teeth we pulled on the basketball courts in the various towns. People in the US really don't understand and appreciate the fluoride in the water.
Since I was the token white guy, my job was to teach kids how to brush their teeth. It ended up being a English class. I was asked about a zillion questions just so they could practice their English. I tried to answer in Tagalog but they were ticked. They wanted to learn the true way to talk English, not the text book version. So I taught them what my daughter taught me, just say the word "Like" every other word..... Luckily my sailor vocabulary never was heard.
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Comment by kpbmamma on May 30, 2013 at 12:09am
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Thank you Craig, diannep and ellen0502... for the info and the chuckle! Will keep my credit card handy! :)
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Comment by ellen0502 on May 29, 2013 at 11:38pm
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Oooh Craig, Magandang gabi. Kamusta ka na?
And if you ask I will only respond with Mabuti lang ako, salamat, because that is all I know...LOL
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Comment by diannep on May 29, 2013 at 11:06pm
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kpbmamma: The Navy usually pays for a ticket from A School to duty station. If he takes Leave, he can alter the ticket and pay the difference. There are travel personnel at the bases to help them with this. But he will need a way to pay for the "extra" so if you are going to help him pay for it, he will need your credit card number! :-)
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It could have been worse, it could have spelled "Yo mamma", then you would really be ticked at me.... ~ha
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Dang it, did it again...that was suppose to be kpbmomma ... This dang iPad thinks I want to speak in Tagalog (Filipino), which I also know....
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Sorry, I'm on a iPad right now and misspelled "ko mamma"....
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Ko mamma - Your son will be eligible for RAP duty once he completes his training after his school ( ie not boot camp) at GL. This is the only time he will be able to utilize this awesome program. He will never get the chance again. RAP duty allows sailors to work at the recruiting station and not have to use any leave (vacation) time. They have to pay their own way there, but it's a great way to have fun and talk to future sailors. It's 5 days long, and then they can use additional leave time if they want to stay in town longer. A sailor is a fool not to take advantage of this GREAT program....
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Hi all! I have a question! My son is undesignated so will stay at GL for an additional three weeks of training after PIR. After that, he'll be able to come home for 2-3 weeks. How does he get home at that point? Is he responsible for travel expenses from GL home and then to where ever he is assigned? How does that work later, too, with vacations, leave between assignments (if there is such a thing). Thanks for the info!
Pages (8)
- N4M’s Community Guidelines and OPSEC
- SHIP/DIVISIONS ~~ What are they and how do they fill them?
- Calls from your SR
- RTC Website and RTC Family Guide links
- What ARE They Doing in Boot Camp? Synopsis, Videos and a Day-by-Day account (up to Week #6) from a Sailor. PLUS-Boot Camp for Dummies!
- Writing Letters ~ Jokes and Fun Stuff to include in your letters/Contact Lenses and Make-Up
- Boot Camp Questionnaires
- LIVESTREAMING OF PIR SERVICE OVER INTERNET
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