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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
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 08/16/2013 TG 40 - 13 Divisions (299-310, and 940)
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Welcome to the group with SAILORS who graduated Boot Camp on 8/16/2013. A place to keep up with each other as your sailors continue their journey in the Navy.
Location: Great Lakes. IL
Members: 98
Latest Activity: Feb 10, 2014
~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 August 10, 2013 at 10:21am
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latinnative: I don't have a FB page link for this group. However, you can check out the Recruit Training Command FB page on there....they post random pictures at times of the SRs and you may just catch a glimpse of yours! Also, I see on your personal page where you are commenting to yourself on the page rather than to the person you wanted to. I did this too when I was first on the group! :-) So be sure to hit: Comment Back under the post/person you are trying to reply to. That will take you to that person's page, where your comment will appear. I didn't get any of your comments because they posted on your page, not mine.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
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Comment by latinnative on August 10, 2013 at 1:00am
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Thank you diannep.. what is the fb page you refer to for 8/16 PIR
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Comment by nikkih01 (ship 014 div 308)! on August 9, 2013 at 9:02pm
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I'm excited and happy for all the moms that got the I'm a Sailor call! Congratulations to all of you! Patiently waiting by the phone! Xoxo
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Captains Cup for this PIR group in the morning! Fun athletic competition for all of them! No BattleStations tonight or tomorrow night.
Congrats to the new sailors of 301-304!
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Dena: I think you will be getting a very nice phone call Wed afternoon! :-)
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Comment by Diane on August 9, 2013 at 8:54pm
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Stacystu, it is not wrong to be upset! Upset is a feeling and feelings are never right or wrong, they just ARE. Of course you are disappointed that you didn't get to hear it from him....hear the excitement in his voice, etc. I was so disappointed when my son mailed "the box" to his dad instead of me......and that was nothing but dirty clothes! Lol! But it is understandable that he would call his girlfriend. Our sailors are men now......they don't realize that they're still our babies.
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Comment by Dena on August 9, 2013 at 8:24pm
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Do we know when 309 will go?? Getting anxious!
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So excited my son's a sailor, whoo hoo! Yes, shello63, all of 302 passed. Can't wait for Friday!
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stacy i dont think that you should be upset... might be he call to you the last time?and this time he decide to call her,
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Comment by stacystu(SHIP 09 DIV 301) on August 9, 2013 at 6:09pm
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Is it wrong to be upset that my son's girlfriend got the " I'm a sailor" call today and I didn't? He said he would call in the next couple days. While I am happy that he did well, I wanted to hear it from him.
Pages (7)
- N4M’s Community Guidelines and OPSEC
- SHIP/DIVISIONS ~~ What are they and how do they fill them?
- RTC Website and RTC Family Guide links
- LIVESTREAMING OF PIR SERVICE ON INTERNET
- Calls from your SR
- 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!
- Writing Letters ~ Jokes and Fun Stuff to include in your letters/Contact Lenses and Make-Up
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