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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.
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 joshmom on July 6, 2013 at 10:56am
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Great morning, ladies. Just got a call from my SR. He was sick was but sounded great otherwise. So good to hear his voice. If I could just reach through that phone and hug him. :)
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Comment by diannep on July 6, 2013 at 8:26am
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Safe travel, Lala!
Good Morning All !
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 5, 2013 at 11:38pm
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Well my vacation has come to an end and it is time to head home. We have been in Florida for two weeks and it has rained every single day we were here. Not exactly the Sunshine State we were hoping for lol. But we still had fun, had a few adventures and met some awesome Navy Moms at our meet and greet. I will be in VA Beach area for a couple weeks in early August and we are planning a meet and greet there as well. If anyone in this group lives in that area please let me know and maybe you can meet with some other Navy Moms while we are there :) Here is the link to my facebook group so you can keep up with the meet and greet updates https://www.facebook.com/groups/327167160695549/ I will be away from the computer tomorrow (Saturday) while we head back to NC. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend :)
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Hey, Margavant! There are pet friendly hotels if you decide to bring your pup! Navy Lodge and Residence Inn are two of them! :-) Your pup can watch the livestream of the PIR service....hee hee!
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Margavan28 - I bet they would count the dog as one of the 3 guests? My son was the one to feed and walk our dog. He made my daughter promise to take Jack for a walk every day. I'll have to get a picture of her taking him for a walk and send it. What a super idea!
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Comment by Margavant28 on July 5, 2013 at 5:59pm
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Dianne's, That is a cute idea. Will have to do that. I think the dog would love to come to PIR, too. Ha ha
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Margavant28: Thinking it is time to write a letter to your SR.....from the dog! It has been done in past groups and the SRs get a kick out of it. One lady hung signs around her 2 dogs necks....saying "will work for food", etc....because her SR is the one who fed them! When I sent piks of our dogs to my son, those are the ones he showed to everyone! You may want to scan the piks on the back of your letter though...or a separate sheet of paper so you don't send a thick envelope that has to be opened in front of the RDCs.
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I am at work today but my husband called me to say we received 2 letters from my son today. I can't wait to go home and read them. He said my son wants us to send a picture of his dog. We laughed, not us just the dog.
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Comment by CatMom509 on July 5, 2013 at 1:31pm
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Happy Friday!!
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge Him,
and He will make your paths straight."
Proverbs 3:5-6
I'm off to Anime Expo with my youngest daughter this weekend! See you all Sunday evening~~
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Good morning, diannep!
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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