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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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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."
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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 June 19, 2013 at 11:34am
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JoeR'sMom,
Yep, when our minds wonder over to our SRs, that's it! Waterfall time~~ Last night my second daughter Darien--only 14 mos younger than my Sailor Daina-- asked me to transfer her laundry from the washer to the dryer for her as she was going out. Suddenly I saw Daina in my mind with their laundry basket coming through the kitchen to do yet another load of their laundry, saw her characteristic walk, cheerful face... I started tearing up, thinking of her. She's in Pensacola studying IT in A school, one of the top 3 in her class now, so proud of her and wishing she would keep closer contact with me like she does with her sister and Daddy~~ We have a younger 11 year old, who is turning 12 tomorrow--Donica, our 3rd daughter. Hoping Daina calls her sister to wish her Happy Birthday!
Happy, Happy 21st Birthday to your daughter today!!
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Comment by PROUDMOMNJ on June 19, 2013 at 10:37am
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@ jenny4forrest My son is in the same division. make sure you scroll up and comment in the discussion forum "Ship 04 (USS Arleigh Burke) Division 817. You'll see I left a comment there. We have to be extra careful because our boys are in specops. Hope to hear from you and KristaK soon. There are two other moms that I know of also and we have been emailing eachother. :)
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Hi KristaK. My son is in the same division. Become a member of the Discussion Forum above which is "Ship 04 (USS Arleigh Burke) Division 817. We have to be extra cautious since our kids are in an 800 division. Look forward to hearing from you!
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Comment by CHC on June 19, 2013 at 10:13am
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Maybe your not logged in on your phone? There is an icon at the top of the page in safari that gives a drop down menu. at the bottom of the drop down it shows if you are signed in.
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To post from an iPhone follow the top link in the email, right under the body of the message and there is a little bubble at the bottom of the page. That will bring up a window to type in.
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Comment by diannep on June 19, 2013 at 8:03am
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JoeR'sMom: I feel your pain. When my husband passed away (we were also a family of 4), it was like a knife in our hearts when we would go out and they would say: 3? I wanted to shout, NO, 4! Took a while to get used to that. But eventually....the "new normal" settles in for all of us. Headed to the gym now myself, but was actually on my 2 mile walk when you posted your comment! Exercise relieves STRESS! :-)
Good Morning All!
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Comment by Ellen65 on June 19, 2013 at 8:01am
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cjforjosh. I read all the posts too but haven't figured out how to reply from my iPhone either. I think I did figure out how to bring up the site using Safari and post ... Just now, guess I'll see if it works.
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Comment by Laura68 on June 19, 2013 at 7:41am
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its been a bit over 3 weeks since my son left.. got the kid in the box and the form letter and missed his first call.. was so upset. but I keep telling myself that "No new is good new" but it is still hard... I keep my phone by me at all times. I had another son go through Army boot camp years back and just went through a 10 month deployment with him. my Army son just gets back from Afgan and my youngest leaves for Great Lakes.within 1 month.. it is so hard not having any contact with my Sr because he has always been there for me while his brother was deployed.. making sure I knew his brother was ok and now he is not here. His brother is back but does not live in the same state and we barely talk.So its just me and my SO.
Cindlouwho: its ok .. it took me a while to let me children be around my SO. We stick together me and my Boys. if it ever came down to where I had to choice it would definitively be my kids. we have been through alot together and we need each other.My SR moved to Fl last year on the same say my oldest deployed and about a month later I went down to see me and I decided that I was going to move. I told me SO and I moved. my SR was happy that I did.then he joined the Navy and is now in BC I am so proud of him and all my kids.
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Comment by Jen4pwr on June 19, 2013 at 7:23am
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My daughter is in SHIP 14 DIV 286. I got her form letter, just can't wait for an actual letter from her...Miss her bunches!
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Comment by JoeR's Mom (Ship 04 Div 283) on June 19, 2013 at 5:48am
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At the gym early in the morning, on the eliptical crying and missing my son, it's been two weeks, today is our daughter's 21st birthday and she's been sad and grumpy, we are a pretty tight family of 4, now when we go out to eat and we are greeted with the words "just 3?" It's hard. I have to get it together this morning for my daughter it is her day, boy this is really hard! :( I got to speak to him on Saturday for a few minutes, but not being able to check on him is killing me.
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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