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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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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 August 5, 2013 at 5:56pm
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Hmmm JoeR'sMom, you must have done alot less driving than I did when I was there because we also ended up on the tollway going to and from Midway Airport and that was a long way! Also took my daughter about 15 mins further north to get her eyebrows done, so it just depends how much driving around you thought you might be doing. Think of it as "insurance" paying for something monthly just in case something might come up.
Glad your PIR was great!!
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Comment by JoeR's Mom (Ship 04 Div 283) on August 5, 2013 at 5:41pm
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diannep everything was on POINT! your info, Kathy's & Craig's too. I knew more about PIR weekend than my Sailor (I kept that between me and my hubby :). The only item I did not find accurate for us was the ipass. We got the ipass with the car rental thinking we would have tons of tolls, we only had two, one going into Waukegan and one going back to the rental place (Thrifty), so we paid $6.95 per day (for 3 days) and less than $4 in tolls. Not sure why we ended up not having more tolls, we used our GPS to travel. All and all the info was great! My Sailor was told by the RDC that swimming would not be allowed as they would be changing into "another uniform" and that was not an option, but I think that was the RDC's personal decision? I guess.
And to add a place to eat, LOVED Anastasia's! Great service, ask for Martin, we ate there twice, and stopped in for drinks one night. Also remind the PIR groups Wallmart is right over there between the Saloon (Sarge's meet and greet and the Marriott, so if anything is forgotten or missed just run in there.
Thanks again for the support, the information and the shoulders you all provided!
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Comment by taysproudmom (HM class 220A) on August 5, 2013 at 4:24pm
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ALL of Sarges info and your info was GREAT! Had a solid and good experience in every way. Make sure to remind ladies about how they can park in the train station parking instead of the inner parking garage. We were out of there within minutes after graduation and those who parked in the inside parking were stuck in traffic a long while-- I felt like that gained us an extra hour with our sailor! Also it would have been just as well to ride the shuttle, except again, we were able to leave a bit faster I think. Any thing to gain time with our sailors is a must!
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Comment by diannep on August 5, 2013 at 8:39am
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Congrats, Ladies, on your new sailors! We N4Moms veterans want to make sure our info is not outdated. Can you please post what your PIR experiences were, especially if anything was different than the info we gave you? Thanks and...
Good Morning!
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Congratulations to all the new Sailors and their loved ones! Bravo Zulu!!
My son left for A school in Pensacola, where did your sailors go?
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Comment by Shermao ( ship 13 div 281) on August 2, 2013 at 4:23pm
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Graduation was so awesome! So proud of my Sailor. Congratulations to all the proud parents!
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Happy Friday!!
"For the Lord loves the just
and will not forsake His faithful ones."
Psalm 37:28
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Oh, praying that everything worked out!
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Division 282 families...please look for this new sailor (post below) and let him know what happened to his Mom. Hopefully he can get to a phone and call her after PIR (or maybe someone there can kindly lend him their cell to try and reach her). I know she and the sailor will be forever grateful!
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ATTENTION PIR ATTENDEES! If anyone can help this lady get a message to her new sailor, please do. Here is her post from Bootcamp Moms:
Comment by Fancy Nancy 32 minutes ago Urgent request for anyone attending PIR Today! August 2, 2013. A mom posted on Facebook that her flight to Chicago was delayed last night and she won't be at Great Lakes until tonight. She is the only one attending her son's PIR. She desperately wants to get word to him. He is in Ship 13, Division 282. His name is Adam Williams. Can anyone help this frantic mom by telling her sailor of her delay? Thanks 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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