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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
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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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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
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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 Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 12, 2013 at 8:31am
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Good Friday morning everyone. It is so good to see some are getting calls and letters :) If you want to take a look at a PIR ceremony you can take a look at today's graduation ceremony that will be live-streamed on the internet. They are now doing this for all the ceremonies and it is such a great idea. Families who have to wait in the hotel because there wasn't room for them on the list and even families at home who couldn't go at all can now be a part of this fantastic celebration. I wish they had had this when my daughter was graduating so my mom could have watched it. It starts at 8:45 am Central time. Here's the link, there is also a chat :)
http://navylive.dodlive.mil/
The video will display under Live Events during broadcast.
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Comment by pmarnell on July 12, 2013 at 8:14am
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I was SO surprised that we talked as long as we did. I'm thinking he may have been at the end of the line, as it was late in the day when he called. After the first few minutes, I kept basically winding it up - telling him how proud I was and how much I loved him, and he just kept talking about his day - and how it was everything he wanted and expected.And the funniest thing my daily runner boy said was that he didn't mind when someone messed up and they had to run ...in fact, he enjoyed it ! I can't wait to see the changes in this man my baby boy has become.
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Comment by diannep on July 12, 2013 at 8:02am
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Good Morning All !
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Comment by Primula Topleaf on July 12, 2013 at 7:19am
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I got a letter yesterday. I was so excited. He is doing good. Now that I know he is doing good, I feel alot better about the whole thing. Don't get me wrong. I am so very proud of him, it's just a mom thing. One of the kids that was in his group had to go home. He is on Ship 14 div 308. If the family is on here and can read this, my thoughts and prays are with you and your family.
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Comment by Nukemom (ship 09 div 310) on July 11, 2013 at 8:34pm
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30 minutes! i got 2 & his g/f got 5
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no letters yet, but did get an almost 30 minute call on Sunday as we were travelling home from a family reunion.I kept expecting him to say he had to go, and finally someone told him to wrap it up... He was happy...strong..and said it was everything he thought it would be. I am so proud
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It is so good to hear about people getting letters. It is hard when you are not getting letters but when they finally come all that sadness goes away.
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my son graduates 8/16, and I've received 2 2 minute phone calls & no letters. However, he says they are coming. He sounded very homesick (didn't expect him to be overly homesick since he is so independent)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear"- James Neil Hollingworth (Ambrose Redmoon)
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Comment by CatMom509 on July 11, 2013 at 4:07pm
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Hi there!
"I will lift up my eyes to the hills--
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth."
Psalm 121:1-2
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Comment by Zig's Mom - carmen47 14/307 on July 11, 2013 at 2:45pm
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I received two letters from my son yesterday is so excited and happy I cannot wait to go aug 16 to see my baby in his uniform. my youngest son just signed up for the Marines... boy all this is so overwhelming
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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