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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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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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ALUMNI OF PIR 08/09/2013 TG 39 - 13 Divisions (287-298, and 939)
Information
Welcome to the group with SAILORS who graduated Boot Camp on 8/09/2013. A place to keep up with each other as your sailors continue their journey in the Navy.
Location: Great Lakes. IL
Members: 84
Latest Activity: Jul 22, 2014
WELCOME to PIR 08/09/2013! 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 Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 19, 2013 at 11:07pm
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I am kind of going through this with you all this time. My youngest son left for Fire Academy Boot Camp on Sunday. He will be there for 10 weeks. I got a text when he arrived that said I'm here. I got a 2 min call tonight and he said they have PT at 7am every day and they are not allowed to drink anything except water. He said he drinks a gallon a day. The bad thing is they have to buy their own food. But he has made some friends already and he goes on calls with a fire department and they have him driving a big ladder truck. He is loving that. I am very proud of him but man it sure is quiet around here.
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Comment by Peggy R on June 19, 2013 at 10:13pm
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Our daughter is Ship 2 Div 939 with PIR 08/09/13. We're from Joliet, IL. Anyone else from Joliet area?
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Hi everyone. I wanted to introduce myself. I am Lala the Ribbon Queen aka Lora :) I am one of the volunteers here to help you through this experience :) I know how hard this is for so many of you. And as hard as it is to believe the boot camp time will pass pretty quickly. I was a mess when my daughter was there. I didn’t have much time to prepare as she was only in DEP one month and then she was gone. I was and am a worrier lol so I was always wondering what she was doing and how she was. But it all turned out great and it is so hard for me to believe it has been three years. Now she is a Sailor and is married to a Sailor and they are expecting their first baby and my first grandbaby :) I am still here helping others get through this experience and I love it. If you have any questions or concerns please just let us know and feel free to send me a friend request if you like. I am happy to help.
I always say the days drag by but the weeks pass quickly so, try to find something fun to do and stay busy. If you have little ones at home there are several things you can do to make this journey a little easier for the, Make a paper chain with a link for each day they have left in boot camp and let them remove one link each day. It will help them see that this is only temporary. Other have also put a quarter in a jar for every day left and each week allowed the child/children to use the money for an ice-cream cone or even for a special card to send to their recruit, gumballs or gummy bears in a jar work well too and they get a tiny little treat each day. So many things can make it a better experience for them. Welcome to your PIR group, we are happy to have you here :)
We actually just had a visit from our daughter/Sailor. She was home for 10 days and in the middle of her visit I developed Pneumonia. Still trying to get better from that but today was much better than yesterday. Just hoping she doesn't get sick. So far so good :)
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Comment by TLC72 on June 19, 2013 at 7:57pm
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According to info I got from the recruiter, my SR is in Ship 09 Div 291. Still anxiously waiting on the form letter while trying not to get myself a ticket getting home to check the mail every night. Anyone else in that div. so far?
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Comment by Debi on June 19, 2013 at 5:10pm
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I know we are growing in numbers but if there are any other WI moms out there I'd love to hear from you. I know my sons division was made up of only guys from WI, IL, and IN.
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Hi CatMom509 My first Sailor is in Missouri training as a SeaBee Equipment operator. He gets to play with adult sized Tonka toys all day! lol My SR is going Hospital Corpsman and has FMBT guarenteed in his contract for after HM school. He's supposed to go to NC for his C school training. Then he wants to get his FMF so he can play with the Marines :) lol He always was the one to like to play with the rougher tougher guys.
We just got back from MO and visiting Sailor #1. It was a good visit..only had trouble with 1 petty officer who wanted to show us he was big dog on campus and was very rude to us..I can take military bearing and such but this was just rude and mean. I did make a formal complaint about him. No family should have to feel intimidated by another person.
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Just got the official form letter a few minutes ago. Ship 12 Div 290! Just a wee bit disappointed as I had an extra Ship 3 challenge coin from when my first went through bootcamp! lol Was hoping to be able to use it this time around too but no go. Will have to order the Ship 12 one this time.
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Comment by ellen0502 on June 19, 2013 at 3:17pm
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Hi debi and welcome back. The website for the weather widget isn't working right now so.... I promise it will be up sometime. :)
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Comment by meli_gz on June 19, 2013 at 2:25pm
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I received the form letter this past monday, and in the address it had both DIV. I sent my letters with the same info from the letter. My guess is that maybe my SR will let me know for sure which DIV is his
Pages (11)
- N4M’s Community Guidelines and OPSEC
- SHIP/DIVISIONS ~~ What are they and how do they fill them?
- Calls from your SR
- RTC Website and RTC Family Guide links
- 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
- PIR: What to Wear/Bring and Tips; PIR Reference Group/Forum links; GPS for RTC
- After PIR – Liberty; Sailors Departures from RTC/USO Info
- Places to Eat in Great Lakes
- Proper Public Behavior with your new Sailor
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