This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
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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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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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 CatMom509 on July 27, 2013 at 3:25pm
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Hi there!
"For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
the Lord bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does He withhold
from those who walk uprightly."
Psalm 84:11
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Precious baby, Lala!!
Yep, like diannep said, lots of blessings from our Lord for Mommy and Great Grandma~~
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Comment by cindilouwho65 on July 27, 2013 at 3:15pm
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The recruits from 283 and 284 are in recruit heaven! There was a $19 withdrawal out of my sons account for Taco Bell 30 minutes ago! They have some down time today lol
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Comment by diannep on July 27, 2013 at 2:54pm
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I agree with Beachmom, Lala! Lots of blessings!
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Comment by taysproudmom (HM class 220A) on July 27, 2013 at 11:48am
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Giamarie65 keep me posted if you find out and ill do the same. My SR is headed to San Antonio for corpsman and he had said he thought around 7am Saturday morning from o hare but was going to confirm. I need to know too!
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Comment by Beachmom (Ship 13, Div 281) on July 27, 2013 at 11:44am
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Lala, the bow is bigger than she is! She is absolutely precious! So glad momma and baby are home and doing well. Happy to hear your mom is out of ICU and almost home. You are blessed!
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 27, 2013 at 10:13am
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Good morning everyone and thanks so much. Mommy and baby are home from the hospital and doing well. My mom is out of ICU and recovering from pneumonia. She should be able to come home in a couple of days. Thanks so much for all the kindness, thoughts and prayers. We know they work and appreciate all of you so very much <3 I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I am sure you are ready for another pic lol :) Her 3 yr old cousin went shopping and bought her a pretty headband. The flower is as big as her head lol. But she has her open in this one :)
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Comment by CHC on July 27, 2013 at 9:33am
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5KNavy, I love it! Stealing it for Facebook!
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Good Morning All !
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cindilouwho,
If you want, you can start a Boot Camp letter writing group, so it's not just you writing all the letters, but I'm unsure how people would get the SRs names and addresses to you other than private messaging. You would need to join and pop into each PIR group to either encouage moms to join your letter writing group or to request names and addresses of the SRs to write letters to. Be aware of the cost of having envelopes, paper, stamps, and pens available at all times.
How about contacting Recruit Man Ronny at www.callsforrecruits.org and you can join his team of letter writers?
Anyways, so glad that Navy for Moms helped you so much!!
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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