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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
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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 teresa81 on August 7, 2013 at 7:55pm
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Got a letter today. Said they were going to go through battle stations this week. Said they had done gas chamber. Sounded good in letter and ready for next week. So happy. We are almost their!
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Comment by CatMom509 on August 7, 2013 at 3:03pm
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Hi Friends!
"But You are a shield around me, O Lord;
You bestow glory on me and lift up my head."
Psalm 3:3
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on August 7, 2013 at 12:02pm
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It is about to get exciting for all of you and won't be long until you are hugging your Sailors. I bet you are super excited and beyond ready for this :)
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Comment by diannep on August 7, 2013 at 11:51am
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Thanks for the info, Kelly! :-)
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Comment by Margavant28 on August 7, 2013 at 10:50am
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Yes, I am sorry it was div. 305.
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@Dianne lol dang phone key board on above post... thanks for the info we will be anxious waiting by the phone . Hope to get to meet everyone next week.
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Margavant: I think you meant Div 305, right? We can't post exact BattleStations dates on this site, but most likely 305/306 will go at the beginning of PIR week. If anyone has received a date for their SR's division, can you please friend request or message the info to me? I like to keep schedules for each PIR group. I will be posting a schedule up in the BattleStations discussion above, but only after the fact. We cannot post ahead of time anymore.
Please read the BattleStations discussion in the Forum above. We have actually had PIR groups in the past who had divisions doing BattleStations Wed night, finishing Thurs morning before PIR on Fri. Calls wouldn't come in until Thurs afternoon, day before PIR, and some never got to call. So families were flying into GL assuming that they would have sailors there! Now, they normally finish all of the divisions in a PIR group by Wed morning during PIR week. But never say never! I have been following the BattleStations groups now on here since early 2010 and have seen lots of changes!
Kelly, if you have a date for 303/304, can you send the info to me? Thanks!
Good Morning All !
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My son is ship 13 div 205. The last time he spoke to me which was about 9 days ago he said he thought his battle station would be hit his coming Sunday night Aug. 11. That sounds very close to his PIR though which is 8/16
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Comment by JenM on August 7, 2013 at 12:20am
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My sr is div 301. He's on my mind constantly especially knowing what they have going on this week. I'm so anxious for the I'm a sailor call.
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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