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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 Kimmy (Ship 13 DIV 282) on July 7, 2013 at 12:26pm
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I think of that prayer every night while I am walking the floor and worrying.
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Comment by Shermao ( ship 13 div 281) on July 7, 2013 at 11:28am
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Thanks for sharing the prayer, Beachmom! It pretty much sums up everything I'm feeling for my SR and for all who are working so hard to become a Sailor!
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Thank you beachmom!
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 7, 2013 at 10:43am
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Thanks Diannep, it is so good to be home :)
I love that poem Beachmom, thanks for sharing with everyone!
Happy Sunday morning everyone :)
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Comment by Prevo (Ship 11 DIV 279) on July 7, 2013 at 10:24am
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What a beautiful prayer beachmom!! Amen and Amen
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Comment by diannep on July 7, 2013 at 7:51am
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Wonderful, Beachmom!
Good Morning All !
Welcome home, Lala!
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Comment by Beachmom (Ship 13, Div 281) on July 7, 2013 at 6:11am
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I saw this prayer on the website when I first joined Navy4Moms. I love this prayer so I want to share with the rest of you. I not only pray for my son, but I pray for all of our sons and daughters daily.
Father,
In the coming days I will need You, but my recruit will need You more! Let him perform his tasks with a sense of duty, not of anger or vengeance. Let his reflexes be quick and his hands steady. Let his head be clear and his eyes sharp. Let his mind and body be strong and his spirit stronger.
God, please stand by my recruit and watch his back when he cannot! Father, I love this recruit of mine! Take from me what he needs and give me what he does not.
I will pace the nights, if it means he gets some sleep. I will deal with fatigue, if it means he will have energy. I will carry his fear, if it means it gives him courage. I will take his pain, if it means he is healthy and whole. I will take his anger, if it means he is at peace. Take my love and pride and let him feel it! Let him know that I am with him every step of the way!
Please, take from me what You can; I give it willingly and with love. It is all I have besides my prayers. Above all, please help my recruit to achieve his goal of becoming... a United States Navy Sailor!
Amen
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tabu, we had our own car as well and drove to PIR and it worked out great for us. I think either way is good since those who drove liked that and those who took the shuttle liked that as well :) We also stayed at the Navy lodge and it was great for the price, very comfy beds :) And it has been remodeled since then. I would go ahead and make reservations for the hotel since you don't actually pay until you check in and you can change or cancel reservations at most of the locations there without a charge or cancellation fee.
We made it home in time to watch the fireworks from our front porch because they were rained out on Thursday. Living in town has its perks :) It will be so good to sleep in my own bed tonight.
Congrats to all those who received calls, I know hearing their voice warms your heart :)
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Comment by taysproudmom (HM class 220A) on July 6, 2013 at 10:30pm
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Wow that is late for calls! I have my phone handy just in case!
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Comment by Rascal73 (Ship 11 Div 279) on July 6, 2013 at 9:59pm
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My son just called!! Get your phones ready...
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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