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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
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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 CatMom509 on July 5, 2013 at 1:30pm
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Happy Friday!!
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge Him,
and He will make your paths straight."
Proverbs 3:5-6
I'm off to Anime Expo with my youngest daughter this weekend! See you all Sunday evening~~
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Comment by diannep on July 5, 2013 at 7:58am
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Good Morning All !
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Comment by Beachmom (Ship 13, Div 281) on July 5, 2013 at 7:52am
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I'll take a few names as well. I write to my SR daily and would love to write to those not receiving mail.
Today is our 5th Friday!!
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Comment by cindilouwho65 on July 5, 2013 at 7:46am
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I also asked my SR for those in his division he thinks could use some encouragement as well. He's probably sharing my zany letters with some as we speak! I'm a nut and write to him about everything and anything. I've sent him lyrics to music. Some he knows. Some he doesn't. I write to him about life and random stuff. I have not been telling him negative stuff. I DID tell him I bought my plane tickets. That in itself will be the highlight of his week!
I will have a room at Residence Inn so I told him he could bring along a few of his new friends to hang out with us if they had no one going to be there for them. It will have a kitchen in it so I can cook! And I can promise you that I will be! ha ha ha ha
I have a few of my SR's friends surprising him there. A few from here. And one he has known there in Chicago for 3 years online? But never met. ;)
If there are any other SR's there you think could use some encouragement? Give me more names! I will send out some notes! :)
This is an awesome effort by you! I think we should just keep it going for future SR's in every unit in the future! :)
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Comment by seabeegirlfriend on July 5, 2013 at 6:43am
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I have my SR keeping an eye out for any more who may need some encouragement :)
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Ladies, friend request Gumby on here and she can message you the names of these ladies needing mail! A great thing to do!
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Count me in gumby! I'll write to some! I was going to send some.to some in my sons division but haven't heard from him yet
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Comment by JoeR's Mom (Ship 04 Div 283) on July 4, 2013 at 6:35pm
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No problem! Getting my card box out si I can write to these recruits!
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JoeR's Mom, please post them for me, I have a hard time being able to post on facebook with my phone. I'll inbox you the names :)
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Yes please on the names, I write to 5 other recruits too, keeps my mind busy. Plus if you have not already I can post to the. Letters from home FB page, do other moms can write to them too.
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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