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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 08/02/2013 TG 38 - 12 Divisions (277-286, 817 and 938)
Information
Welcome to the group with SAILORS who graduated Boot Camp on 8/02/2013. A place to keep up with each other as your sailors continue their journey in the Navy.
Location: Great Lakes, OL
Members: 99
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013
WELCOME to PIR 08/02/2013! 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 Ellen65 on October 1, 2013 at 2:57pm
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Keel Book arrived today USPS
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Comment by CHC on August 29, 2013 at 10:35am
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It's hard to believe its only been 4 weeks. It seems like forever since I got to spend the weekend with my son. Now I'm counting the Fridays until Christmas.
Being a Navy mom means a lot of counting the weeks.
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I found this on Navy for Dads.
DVD's and VHS tapes of PIR
are mailed out to the address given by the recruit approximately 5-7 weeks
after PIR. The Cruisebook (Keel Yearbook)
arrives 8-10 weeks after PIR.http://www.navydads.com/group/pirtipshintsandhelps/forum/topics/ord...
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Thanks Ellen65. He was asking about it.
It's so great to be able to talk to my SA again. He's a poor letter writer but I get a call or text almost every day now.
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My son phases up last week and went to the enlisted club at GL (is that what it's called still?). He wore his division tshirt and said there were a group of his division with the tshirt on so he was able to catch up with some of his BC division!
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Jennrenee7. No, I haven't received DVD or book yet either. I have a note on my door for FedEx to leave any packages though. I read somewhere they usuall arrive about a month after PIR.
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I have not received my sons DVD nor book yet. Has everyone else who's sr ordered them?
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Comment by cindilouwho65 on August 14, 2013 at 10:36pm
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OK ladies! Bare with me as I attempt to update you on life after PIR. I'm on a tablet because I gave my computer to sailor son. Lol He's enjoying it, too. He's not sure he wants to buy a new one just yet. One more thing to carry and probably no way to use it later. Lol
Thank you Laura and others who made it possible for me to go to PIR! It was eventful! I had the best time with Naty..Joe R's mom and her family. I met quite a few people! Had water dumped on me day of PIR by a navy cop....took 233 pics of Downtown Chicago alone. Let's just say I filled my media card and started filling my tablet later with lots of pictures! My son and I had the best time! I don't know what Navy boot camp does to others but I do know that it brought more of my son out. The shrugging man of few words before? He and I talk daily now. Usually all Navy too. Lol He shares a lot with me.
Chicago was a good recharge and regroup trip for me. I can't explain it. But I've been making changes since I got home to better my own life. Work is good. More hours and some training for other responsibilities. I work and sleep. And fuss with the last teen at home. Being around all my Navy sisters was a good boost to my self esteem. And a good swift kick to make me get back into a ME routine! It's bothering other people and getting noticed by others. Lol I guess I had epiphany's being away from what I used to accept as normal. Only to realize that I wasn't happy at all. :) My other children and of course boyfriend think I'm completely insane and overly occupied with anything Navy. They still don't get it. I don't talk much to them now. Son completely gets it though.
I didn't forget about all of you! ! I stay mostly on Facebook and preoccupy myself with new things and work. I'm simply trying to improve my life and exercise some freedom to experience life and actually have a life. So boot camp did indeed change two lives for the better! ! Feel free to stay in touch OK? I would have never been able to survive it all without all of you!! I am so grateful. Without you?
I would have been lost. Literally lost.
Hooyah! !!
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Comment by Annette on August 13, 2013 at 2:40pm
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I just watched the PIR online, all the way through. I wanted to see things I might have missed. And I recall certain moments that stood out and either gave me goosebumps or got me a little teary (I didn't really cry like I expected to! Go me!)
When that door rolled up and I saw those marching feet. WOW! (my son (279) said when they heard the roar they looked at each other wondering what that was, I told that that was the roar of happy, proud families!). The Sailor's Creed (lump in my throat), Navy Hymn (Oh here us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea), that one always brings some tears, Anchors Aweigh! And Liberty Call!! Awesome moments all! But most of all, seeing that sailor of ours, and seeing his pride in accomplishment. Priceless.
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Comment by GiaMarie on August 12, 2013 at 9:13pm
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Take care all and God Bless!
Pages (6)
- N4M’s Community Guidelines and OPSEC
- SHIP/DIVISIONS ~~ What are they and how do they fill them?
- RTC Website and RTC Family Guide links
- Calls from your SR
- 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!
- LIVESTREAMING OF PIR SERVICE ON INTERNET
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