This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
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:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
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 diannep on June 21, 2013 at 1:39pm
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ty'smom: They mail one letter out. However, I was told by someone who worked at RTC that they can ask for an extra letter to send to their other parent in a divorce situation. The most important part of that letter is the PASSWORD. That will be used to download your RTC gate pass about 11 days before PIR. Your SR will know this word since he/she is the one who wrote it in the letter.
So ladies, keep that letter/password in a safe place! Just saw a post last night on today's PIR group from a lady who arrived in GL only to realize she forgot her form letter/password and didn't have the gate pass. So keep it in a safe place!
Have a wonderful visit, ellen! :-)
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Comment by ty'smom on June 21, 2013 at 1:38pm
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My SR left 6/11 and I am waiting somewhat patiently, for the letter...
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Comment by DeeMarie (Ship 11 Div 288) on June 21, 2013 at 1:32pm
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NavyMom2005 I wonder if our SRs are in the same division. If so you should be getting your letter any day. :)
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Comment by navymomtrustinggod;ship4;DIV2347 on June 21, 2013 at 1:31pm
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Ladies my daughter left June 11th , I received my letter today ,so glad I came home early today; she is ship12 ,div289...this is my second child to go through boot camp so, I thought I was doing good . This morning I was sitting alone and I cried like crazy she is my only girl out of 4 kids I really miss her she is like my best friend...Hang tight ladies the letters are on the way:)
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Comment by NavyMom2005 ship 03 Div 287 8/9 on June 21, 2013 at 1:23pm
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DeeMarie our SR left 6/6 and no letter yet but his recruiter said he had a PIR date of 8/9. Thought for sure it was going to be 8/2...tacked another week on :(
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My SR arrived at GL on June 6. We originally thought an Aug 2 PIR (which would have been 9 Fridays), but when we received his letter on June 18 it said Aug 9 PIR. I have heard that there were some weather delays during the week of June 10 that held up some recruit arrivals.
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Comment by emilypet on June 21, 2013 at 12:54pm
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My son left on June 10th and I got the letter today.
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Thank you. I will definitely have to stop crowding the mailman, lol.
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HELP!!! From what I am getting from blogs and information my son should be PIR 8/9/13 BUT I don't have a letter yet. Does anybody know if letters get mailed out to moms and dads that are divorced, if the letter goes to both households???
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Comment by ellen0502 on June 21, 2013 at 11:56am
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Good morning! Just dropped my oldest off at the airport to go meet his sailor brother, who has just finished C School, and is headed home before shipping out. I love it when leave rolls around!!!
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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