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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
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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 08/01/2014 TG 38 - 9 Divisions (231-238, and 938)
Information
This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on August 1, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 53
Latest Activity: Sep 27, 2014
WELCOME to PIR 08/01//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 13 (USS Marvin Shields) Division 237 and 238 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by DebinAlabama Aug 19, 2014. 5 Replies 3 Likes
Ship 12 (USS Triton) Divisions 231 and 232 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by nicolel818 Jul 30, 2014. 21 Replies 1 Like
please advise if anyone gets a " I'M a Sailor Call"
Started by Eileenilmom. Last reply by CatMom509 Jul 26, 2014. 5 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 04 (USS Arleigh Burke) Divisions 233 and 234 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by MDTF Jul 25, 2014. 4 Replies 2 Likes
Ship 11 (USS Kearsarge) Divisons 235 and 236 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Whitney Jul 15, 2014. 7 Replies 0 Likes
^^^^^BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST ! ^^^^^^
Started by diannep. Last reply by MomofHAN Jul 3, 2014. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 28, 2014 at 8:35am
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Good morning everyone, hitting the road this morning with the rental truck and heading back home to the mountains. This was the quickest trip to the beach ever and the hotel had feather pillows. UGGGG I can't breathe lol
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I realized I did not properly introduce myself to all of you :) I am Lala, one of the volunteers for the PIR groups here to help you get through the boot camp experience. My daughter graduated boot camp July 23, 2010 and just finished her 4 years and is now out of the Navy. She is still living the Navy life since her husband reenlisted for 4 more years and is based at Coronado CA (way too far from home in NC) She will be going back to school to finish her degree in physical therapy/sports medicine very soon. I have been helping on this site since her PIR and I am also an admin in the facebook PIR groups. I am happy to help you all in any way I can. If you need anything or have any questions let me or another veteran mom here know and feel free to send me a friend request. The time in boot camp will pass much more quickly than you think and before long you will be there waiting for those big doors to open. We are so happy you found us, groups like this one and facebook will make this journey much easier :)
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Comment by diannep on June 27, 2014 at 9:15pm
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Bandmom: Yep, close quarters and I believe that their bodies being bombarded with vaccinations when they arrive make them move vulnerable temporarily too....to germs, etc....compromising their immune systems. They get through the sicknesses! Hope he feels better soon!
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Comment by Bandmom on June 27, 2014 at 6:46pm
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Got a call last night from my son, he said a lot of the recruits were sick including him with a bad head cold but they were given meds and most are getting better. I guess that happens when you get a bunch of folks in close quarters. He sounded good and said training is getting better and that some thing were really cool so I think he is doing OK. Anyone in the 938 div band they may be preforming in the 18th and 25th PIR so you should be able to get a glimpse of them.
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Comment by Breesmom11 on June 27, 2014 at 1:54pm
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I got my daughter's last phone call from BC Wednesday. She sounded a lot better than the last two calls. Her ship is moving to a new ship. She's now on SHIP 12 USS TRITON DIV 231. Im making my planes now. Can't wait to see how much she has grown. #PROUDNAVYMOMMA
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Comment by CatMom509 on June 27, 2014 at 1:46pm
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Happy Friday!!
"I know that You can do everything,
and that no purpose of Yours can be
withheld from You."
Job 42:2
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Comment by DebinAlabama on June 27, 2014 at 11:44am
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Well I just finished watching PIR!!!! Once again, AWESTRUCK how all the new sailors looked. Can't wait until we are ALL there watching our sons and daughters become sailors in the world's most AWESOME Navy!!!! HOOYAH!!!!
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Sadly, my son's handwriting reverted back to his chicken scratch after Bootcamp. And....he got in trouble while on watch because they couldn't read it! Sigh.....some things never change! But he is a fast typer! :-)
Could be, Deb! Just don't worry....there are push divisions in every PIR group and they always PIR on time (although individuals can be delayed, the divisions finish!).
Good Morning!
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Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on June 27, 2014 at 2:10am
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OKay8Mom - LOL...they actually are instructed on how they are to write in Navy BC. :-)
All caps...strikethrough their zeros etc.
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Comment by OKst8Mom on June 27, 2014 at 12:30am
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Got the first letter from my SR today. Do they offer penmanship classes at RTC? Holy smokes! I could read it!
Loved the top line "PLEASE SEND MORE POSTAL STAMPS". Hey Momma.... :). I posted a pic...
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