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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
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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 July 19, 2013 at 10:49am
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Livestreaming of today's PIR service. Will be over in about 10 minutes.
http://navylive.dodlive.mil/2013/07/19/navy-recruit-graduation-july...
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Comment by Jessmgg on July 19, 2013 at 10:14am
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did they call?
i think i just miss a call:(
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Comment by CatMom509 on July 19, 2013 at 10:11am
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Happy Friday!!
"As water reflects a face,
so a man's heart reflects the man."
Proverbs 27:9
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Comment by 2tymeNavyMom on July 19, 2013 at 10:09am
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Good Morning all!
We made it to another Friday! 5 down and 4 to go.
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Here is a link to the bootcamp ship names:
http://www.navydads.com/group/bootcamp/forum/topics/ship-or-barrack...
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shello: That is the best way.....to take more than they may need and let them select what they want to take with them to A School, you returning with the "extra."
proudmom: Welcome! There are actually challenge coins you can purchase commemorating PIR (www.pirgifts.com)....you purchase the one that is in your SR's ship name at bootcamp. As far as other gifts, that just depends on what your new sailor will want or need. Some like to shop with their new sailors after PIR for a gift (they can't take these back to RTC, but can return to GL A School base with the gifts....and you can meet your sailor at the airport to give them personal items if they are flying out). Others may give them giftcards or cash to use once they arrive at A School....at the NEX or off-base once they phase up and can leave the base.
Good Morning!
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Good morming all! Just joined the group this morning & thankful for all the info. Wanted to ask if anyone has any ideas or suggestions of ways to make graduation extra special for the recruit - items to present them, things to bring them, etc? Are there items we can purchase to commemorate PIR?
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Comment by shello63 on July 18, 2013 at 9:16pm
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I asked my son to pack a backpack for me to pass off at the airport. I kept calling it his "go" bag. When I was cleaning up in his room, I found it in the closet with a big sign saying "GO Bag". I have no clue what is in there...he may end up going through it at the hotel with me taking things back home.
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Should remind you that he cannot take any of these things back to RTC. He can have them once he moves over to GL A School base, if he is staying there for A School....or....you can meet him at the airport and hand the items off to him there.
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hal: I would ask what personal items he may like....clothing, ipods, computers, etc. Just remember that he will have limited space to store things....and if traveling to A School, he will have limited space in his existing luggage (seabag, garment bag (uniforms), backpack). Probably best to bring a suitcase full and let him select what he likes. You can mail more to him later. He can't wear the civilian clothing until he phases up in A School.
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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