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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
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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
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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 08/02/2013 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 diannep on July 20, 2013 at 8:48am
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Jennrenee: I don't think my son said he picked his password and I once asked a person who worked at RTC and she said, no, the passwords are assigned. So just not sure about that! If you get more info from your SR, please let us know as we N4Moms veterans would sure like to know that. My son was in bootcamp so long ago that I'm not sure he would remember, and it may have changed since then.
ellen, since you are our most recent N4Moms veteran, maybe you can ask your son if the PIR password was assigned or if they could pick it? Seems strange that I have heard two SRs say that they picked it, when the RTC person told me they are assigned. Hmmm......
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Comment by JoeR's Mom (Ship 04 Div 283) on July 20, 2013 at 5:53am
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Diannep thank you! I will let her know! @ jennrenee7 oh my on the snakes! Lol
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Comment by CHC on July 20, 2013 at 12:32am
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I thought My SR either said he made/picked our password or maybe I assumed. It's the name of one of our snakes but with 128 snakes... It could have been random lol
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JoeR'sMom: RTC asks that the password NOT be shared. We have never been able to figure out how they do the passwords. One mom said that her SR made up his password....so NOT true. They are assigned, but we aren't sure how. She needs to ask her SR for the password, either by letter or during the I'm a Sailor call. Only the SRs have it.
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Lala I have a question, for you or any other of the Veterans. The FB page for PIR one of the Wives posted she never got the letter, is every password the same? To print out the pass, I mean can it be shared? Or is it individual to each SR? I want yo help this young lady but do not want yo do anything wrong. Thank you for any info!
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Comment by cindilouwho65 on July 19, 2013 at 3:42pm
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yes LaLa! We missed you!
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I'm right there with ya JoeR's mom (whom we talk to each other alot! She's my closest Navy sister now!)!!
My son's letters? Always upbeat. Never sad. No complaints. And if he wanted to complain? He knows if it's something bigger than himself he can't handle? Even at 18? He would call on me. Without saying as much. I'm very intuitive.
If anything is happening? It's not as a result of this site. We have given the utmost respect to the Navy/military OPSEC rules and polices. Everything that is said? Is already public knowledge. Stuff that recruiters and RDC already know (you don't think they don't know about their recruits ahead of time?).
My son has worked hard to get where he is. He has those RDC's to thank for along with his recruiter and other Navy friends.
As for myself? I hesitated originally after my son left for bootcamp. Briefly. I was having a bad week. I knew better. But between this site and the groups on Facebook?
I would have for sure been completely lost without the women on this site. Completely. I feel like I belong. I'm included. Not judged. Nor ridiculed. Even if my life seems rather chaotic at times (kids) lol
I would be lost without the support I have received from the get go. You guys are all priceless and invaluable to me and my life.
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 19, 2013 at 3:25pm
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So sorry I was MIA, a bad storm knocked out my modem so I didn't have internet for almost a whole day. I thought I was going to go nuts lol. Did you miss me? Did you notice I was gone? lol
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I'm not sure what is going on, but I can say this, without this site I would have been lost, crying everyday and completely clueless. My SR, I too spoke to him on Thursday is confident, encouraged and LOVES the Navy! So Kudos to this site, all the Navy moms that have stuck around to hold all new Navy moms hands! Thank you Thank you from my SR, myself and my family!! Xoxo
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I saw the message in my email and I can't find it now here..but I want to say this:
My son called day before yesterday. He is encouraged. He sounds confident. He is eager to see myself and his gf. He is SO proud of that uniform! He LOVES getting mail from us. In one letter he said "your mail mom, helps keep my focused!".
I don't know where the message is but I saw it. It's completely untrue.
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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