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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 JoeR's Mom (Ship 04 Div 283) on June 19, 2013 at 6:59pm
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Cjforjosh thank you! I'm going to say it everyday: no news is good news!
Jo Ann (Bre's mom) whoo Hoo!
Cindilouwho65 we just keep counting those Fridays :)
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Diannep so very sorry for your loss. :(
Exercise does help but sometimes I'm alone with my thoughts even with the headphones on and the music playing loud. my hubby, son and I would be at the gym together every morning, I often look at the door waiting for him to come in. My Son would make Kung fu kicks and Hiya me while I worked out to make me laugh lol, I miss him.
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Catmom509 thank you! And how right you are about the wandering mind. I love how your daughters are all D's my kids are J's. early Happy Birthday to your daughter! :)
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Comment by mom3angels on June 19, 2013 at 3:03pm
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I got my official letter.. I am so excited I can send my daughter letters..Aug. 2nd can't come quick enough.
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Comment by diannep on June 19, 2013 at 12:57pm
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Here is the Bootcamp Questionnaire link which is a fun way to "write" to your SRs:
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir07032013/page/boot-camp-questio...
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Thanks for the hugs, CatMom!
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Ok, correction, CatMom. I wasn't posting DURING my walk, just meant that I was walking at the same time that JoeR'sMom was posting while on the eliptical! But I have to walk 3 dogs during that walk, and it is dark too, so no chance of using my phone for anything! :-)
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Comment by CatMom509 on June 19, 2013 at 11:56am
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Diannep,
Such dedication to be answering Navy for Mom on a brisk 2 mile walk! I would have to drive over to a park to walk, can't do it in the neighborhood I live in, oh, now I am remembering that my Sailor Daina would get up early every morning and be out the door at 5:00 am or 5:30 am to run at the parks (there's a couple she would drive to depending on the length of time). Sometimes my husband or I and our youngest would go with her to walk around the path while she "lapped" us running. I would also bring a snack size zipper bag of cat food to feed a young cat there who would come out from the playground apparatus. Daina was exercising to prepare for the PFA (Physical Fitness Assessment) at Boot Camp! Man, Daina is popping in alot for me today and it's only 8:55 am in the morning.
Same thing at the restaurants to say 1 less than "normal." (((HUGS Diannep)))
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Good Morning!
"But let all who take refuge in You be glad;
let them ever sing for joy.
Spread Your protection over them,
that those who love Your name
may rejoice in You."
Psalm 5:11
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KarnethS,
If you go to the Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) group, in the Pages section under the members' pictures, there is a page called "Letter Writing and Fun Stuff", that's where you find the questionnaires to send to your SR. You can also change them to make the questionnaire fit your needs. It's fun to get them back and see what your SR adds to their answers!!
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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