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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.
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:
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 08/14/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 60
Latest Activity: Aug 25, 2015
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~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"
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Thanks for the kind words, Vince!
Oooops! Sorry, ellen, that I reversed the order of you and CatMom joining the team! Be kind to me....I'm old! HAAA!
Yep vince, Like diannep said we are spies! LOL Not really, diannep and FTLW were the ones who helped me through the process when my son was in BC. I joined N4M in early 2012 and decided to stay after my son graduated, Catmom joined about a year after me and we all just hung around. :)
Between us we dealt with different stuff when our kids were in BC. The asmo'd process, PUSH divisions, pulling of teeth, sick kids, healthy kids, failing tests etc, and much of what we learn is from you all giving us updates, and letting us know the scoop.
The Navy is unpredictably predictable, but the outcome for your recruits is the same...United States Sailors!
Too funny, vince. Yes, we are spies! HA! Well, here's the deal. We have been on the site for a very long time....I am the oldie goldie, both in age :-) and length of time on here since I have been helping out since my son's PIR back in early 2010! CatMom joined our N4Moms veteran team 2 yrs or so later, and ellen right after that. We had a couple of more who helped as well, but haven't seen them post recently. One of them is over the the FB groups. The other one will be back soon after tending to "home fires."
Soooo....our info is from lots of experience on this site! Some of the ladies are nice enough to post after their PIR to let us know if there have been changes or if our info is right on. So, we do the best that we can to make sure you have the correct info!
That was special, vince, your Sailor son now sharing with you as a man....... ((HUG))
Hello Friends!
"Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!"
The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob will be our refuge."
Psalm 46:10-11
vince: BIG ((((((hug))))))!
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