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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 08/09/2013 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 Debi on July 27, 2013 at 10:33am
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Lora she is GORGEOUS!! Just think what the future holds for her...maybe Master Chief? or Admiral? lol Navy is in her blood!
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 27, 2013 at 10:11am
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Good morning everyone. Mommy and baby are home from the hospital and doing well. My mom is out of ICU and recovering from pneumonia. She should be able to come home in a couple of days. Thanks so much for all the kindness, thoughts and prayers. We know they work and appreciate all of you so very much <3 I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I am sure you are ready for another pic lol :) Her 3 yr old cousin went shopping and bought her a pretty headband. The flower is as big as her head lol. But she has her open in this one :)
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Comment by diannep on July 27, 2013 at 9:24am
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Good Morning!
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Comment by navy06 (03 div 298) on July 26, 2013 at 8:05pm
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Call from Div 298! Great call. My girl is sick, but sounded wonderful, very upbeat, and excited to graduate!! Keep your phones close!
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Comment by CJsmom on July 26, 2013 at 5:26pm
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My son told me he and 3 other guys have formed an a'capella quartet! But says they won't let them sing at PIR...lol. I love the things they do to pass the time and the friendships they are making. What great stories to tell!
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Comment by CatMom509 on July 26, 2013 at 5:14pm
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Happy Friday!!
"Every word of God is flawless;
He is a shield to those
who take refuge in Him."
Proverbs 30:5
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meli qz,
Remember that he can mail his letter to you only on Mondays, so he is responding to the mail he has received up to last Friday. No mail delivery on Saturdays and all the mail he has received from you early this week, he won't respond until this coming Sunday. I hope I've explained it right to you~~
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Hmmm, they should be receiving the mail today for instance, that you mailed on Tuesday. He should able to receive a letter that you mail next Friday or Saturday as the last ones. I live in Southern California, so that was the lag time between mailing and my Sailor daughter receiving our letters, about 3 days after we mail.
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Comment by meli_gz on July 26, 2013 at 12:49pm
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I have a question: Today I'm writing my letter #50, and yesterday I received more personal letters from my SR. And for what I read he is receiving mail from like 10 days ago. When do you think I should stop writing? Today is his day 6-1 PIR 8/9
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Mail from my SR... Short and sweet but sounding so much better. Guess their division is doing well.. They have received three flags though I can't recall what they were for. But like I told my SR...They are over the top of the mountainl...It's downhill from now though don't get too cocky...it's still going to be a bumpy ride and have a few obstacles in the way but as long as they all do what they are supposed to..they will all do great!! Two WEEKS left!!! YEA!!!!
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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