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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
...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
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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."
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 CatMom509 on August 7, 2013 at 5:42am
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Awww, Peggy, you're welcome!!
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ProudNavyMom287,
Please check out my "PERTINENT PIR TIPS" up in the Discussion Forum. I discuss what I went through meeting my Sailor daughter at Midway Airport~~
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Comment by navy06 (03 div 298) on August 7, 2013 at 12:21am
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any calls from 297/298 yet?...... :)
maybe its too soon. I'll check back in 5 minutes or so...
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Comment by diannep on August 6, 2013 at 11:40pm
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ProudNavyMom: I agree with MamaJ: You shouldn't have a problem finding your new sailor at the airport and getting the gate pass. Just don't forget to take ID for all in your group. We have seen posts on this site of some in the group who forgot their ID and couldn't get the gate pass....it is really nice to wait at the gate with them until the plane departs!
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For those of you flying tomorrow afternoon when your I'm a Sailor call may come in (297/298), here's a suggestion:
Change your voicemail to greet your new sailor, telling him/her that you are in flight and how proud you are of them. Ask that they leave lots of messages in the meantime. Maybe give them an idea of when you will be landing in the event they can call again.
Peggy: You are so very welcome! Your N4Moms team loves helping on here! We have been together for a good while and love working with each other to help you all. Congrats to all of you and your new sailors! :-)
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MamaJ: So sorry to hear about the tendonitis and delay for your sailor. Sigh...I'm hoping that she can get all done before the two weeks! Is she allowed to start trying to pass it again now? If so, she will get to test M W F each week. Once she passes the run (which I assume is her problem), she will do BattleStations with the next group and then head to A School. So sorry she doesn't get PIR.....but happy that she will be a sailor eventually regardless!
I too am glad that you had booked on Southwest. Now you have tickets to go see her in A School at some point!
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Agreed! This site has been such a blessing during this incredibly difficult time! You all are so wonderful, and to see you with each new batch of nervous moms just as involved as you were before. I know because as my first daughter graduates this week, my second daughter is only in her second week of boot camp, and I see you communicate with all of these new moms. What a kind and loving contribution you all make to our military. You have heard every worry like a broken record a thousand times over and you make every one feel like they are asking the question for the first time. Thank you so much.
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Comment by MamaJ2275 on August 6, 2013 at 10:42pm
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Once you find him, getting the security pass will just be a matter of standing in line.
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Went through it at OHare last May. we located the USO, then waited at check in. We found him pretty easy. We didn't ever go through to the terminal-- instead we visited at a cafe.
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Well, the important thing is that she will finish. My sister in law didn't get to go to graduation at the last minute either, and today, 13 years later, it means nothing, she loved the Navy and is just as proud as anyone else to have served. Im sorry you won't get to see her though. What a disappointment. Soon though. And she will be a sailor and you will get to talk to her. Still waiting on my call. I think my girl is going to Battle stations tonight.
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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