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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 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 CHC on July 29, 2013 at 4:54pm
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their calling!
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Comment by Annette on July 29, 2013 at 3:08pm
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Is it 1:45 yet? I am so ready to go!
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Comment by CatMom509 on July 29, 2013 at 2:57pm
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Ladies,
Remember that this isn't the end of your Navy journey!! Lots more for your sons and daughters to experience, so stay plugged in to Navy for Moms! There's groups for A school, C school, states, regions, ratings (job), bases, ships, subs, and the Christian Chat that I am a part of~~
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Hi Friends!
"I will give You thanks in the great assembly;
among throngs of people I will praise You."
Psalm 35:18
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That countdown clock is really going down. I'm so excited! I leave tomorrow after work. Sitting here making a list of all the things we can do. last load of laundry for over a week is in the dryer. House is almost done. Just floors to do now. Fridge and freezer stocked with 15 year old's and Ol' Man's favorites. I'm sure they'll live on junk food and soda for a week without me here to put real food on their plates.
IS IT FRIDAY YET?
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Comment by Rascal73 (Ship 11 Div 279) on July 29, 2013 at 8:25am
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Yes!! This is it! We are almost there... I can't wait for my hug!
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Comment by diannep on July 29, 2013 at 8:13am
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Good Morning All !
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Excited for all of you!! It's finally your PIR this Friday!!
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Comment by cindilouwho65 on July 29, 2013 at 12:50am
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I couldn't be any more nuts right now about this trip than I am! lol I have a big suitcase packed full of SR's stuff for him to choose from. I'll have to lug the rest home (I anticipated this lol).
He's SOOOOO excited that I think between the two of us? We're now over the top and over the edge excited. He's feeding my excitement. ha ha ha ha. He's been like a race horse at the gate the last few days. Seriously he has. ha ha ha ha He called my phone today. Back to back calls. 3 times! Unfortunately I couldn't get to it in time because I was at work. BUT? I have permission to keep my ringer on and if he calls in the next few days? I AM answering and stepping away from what I am doing. (I love the store I work for! They are military friendly!).
Boyfriend is taking me to the airport (he volunteered because I told him I was taking a cab!). I have to be at the airport at 3 am. (He must love me to want to do that because he's normally down and in bed by 8 pm every night!) I work the night before until 6:30 pm.. I'm working every night this week up until Wed night actually. No time for naps. Not even sure I'm sleepy. lol!
Son has been on FB. The first day (yesterday) that he was? One of my daughters posted that she didn't believe it was him and thought it was ME posting as HIM on his facebook. He gave me his log in info to keep people updated. I hadn't been doing it on his account log in. But mine lately. He had to message her to let her know it was REALLY him. And I print screened my phone to show her I wasn't insanely posting back and forth to myself as him! Just too funny!. He now see's just how missed he was! And HOW PROUD everyone is of him. He's just bubbling over. Literally. Never seen him like this honestly. LOL!
It's like Christmas all over again for him. For us.
But better! ;)
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Comment by mom3angels on July 28, 2013 at 11:50pm
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I am all packed and ready to go....Road trip tomorrow (thanks to my sister) to see my Navy Sailor.. I have missed her so..Family is ready and excited to go...yea!!!!!!
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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