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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
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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 ellen0502 on June 13, 2013 at 3:21pm
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Can't tell you when they may call again, it could come at any time, so keep your phone handy.
Security clearance calls they don't leave a message, and most of the time they are very business like. If that is what the call was about don't be surprised if they seem "distant" when talking to you, there is someone standing over them when they make that call.
The other "vet" moms have more info on the security information calls in BC. I never got one in BC, my call came recently because of a change in my sons clearance, so it was a whole different animal from BC.
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Comment by Laura68 on June 13, 2013 at 3:10pm
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Thanks ellen0502 that sure makes me feel better.. Do you know when he will call again.. I do not want to miss the call again.
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Comment by russmom ship13, div281 on June 13, 2013 at 3:00pm
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Got my info yesterday.. Ship 13 Div 281.. I am sure I will have questions.
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Comment by JBsmom4 on June 13, 2013 at 3:00pm
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Beachmom!! Same as mine! Ship 13 and Div 281 !
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In the PAGES there is a link to the ships and divisions and how they fill them. The "PAGES" are located on the right side of the page just under the member icons.
For those of you that think you missed a cal from your SR. If it was your SR and they didn't leave a message, it may have been a call for security clearance "information". They are not allowed to leave a message they will call back.
Sending letters out before you receive the form letter confirming their ship and division, will not get them to your recruit any faster. A recruit must be trained how to handle the mail before mail is received and that can take up to two weeks after they have moved into their ship for training. Do drop everything you have written to them as soon as you have confimation, they love mail call, it is like Christmas to them.
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Comment by Beachmom (Ship 13, Div 281) on June 13, 2013 at 2:15pm
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Just received my papers in the mail, Ship 13, Div 281!
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Proud mom.. I did the same and found out yesterday that my Sr will be graduating a week later.I got my letter yesterday... missed a call also yesterday from a "847" so I am thinking it was him... hope he calls again
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Comment by CatMom509 on June 13, 2013 at 11:32am
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Good Morning!
"Listen...and be wise,
and keep your heart
on the right path."
Proverbs 23:19
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Comment by proudmom of PH on June 13, 2013 at 11:22am
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I realize it could be a while yet for the letter. I am just anxious. Foolishly made travel arrangements in April before knowing anything and taking the advice of the recruiter. If this is my correct PIR group, then I will have to change my plans as they are a week off.
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I looked at my phone and noticed I got a miss call from a "847" number and I read somewhere that is the number my SR will call from.. but there wasn't any message left? can anyone tell me when he will get another chance to call again and should it worry me that he did not leave a message.
I cried when I noticed that I missed his call...
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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