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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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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)
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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 ellen0502 on July 1, 2013 at 2:29pm
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GregsMom, What address did you mail his letters to? Unfortunately the recruiters don't always have the correct address. You should mail letters to the address from your sons form letter.
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Comment by GregsMom on July 1, 2013 at 2:21pm
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Got my letter on Saturday but am a little concerned. My son's recruiter gave me his address, but it is different address, We already sent letters to the old address. Will he receive them?
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Shello63, my son is Ship 09, Division 302. Nice to meet you. :)
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Comment by diannep on July 1, 2013 at 2:06pm
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shello: Hang in there! ellen will open up the discussion groups for your divisions above very soon! Then you will have a place to chat on here! In the meantime, feel free to friend request each other and chat privately on this site.
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Comment by licis gramma on July 1, 2013 at 1:37pm
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Shello63, My granddaughter is Ship 9, Div 302 also. She called her boyfriend on Saturday and was feeling pretty low, and very sick. Also overwhelmed. Hopefully, after a rest(?) day on Sunday she is ready to work hard. As I see it, no news is good news right now.
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Comment by shello63 on July 1, 2013 at 1:04pm
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Ship 09 Div 302 moms....would you post here! I'd like to figure out who we all are. :) I read a comment that says the same ship/div as my son, then can't find you again. LOL Perhaps we can start a group for us??
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V'sMom: Yep, most all of them get sick at bootcamp. My theory is it is an overload of vaccinations when they first arrive, coupled with stress and close quarters. They survive! Even those who normally don't get sick (like my son) usually succomb to something while there. They keep a close eye on the SRs medically.
Good Morning All !
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Comment by V'sMom 1348 MT on July 1, 2013 at 1:44am
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Hello all. My son is in Ship 03 Div 303. Kelly I noticed your son is in the same division. V called me yesterday and we talked for almost 20 minutes! He said boot camp is not as bad as he thought it would be. He also said most everybody is pretty good about helping each other out. AND he said the food is pretty good. He had some kind of crud (a cold) but he said a lot of folks were sick. It's like when we first sent 'em to daycare -- they were exposed to lots of other kids' germs and ended up getting sick. same thing now.
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Comment by CatMom509 on July 1, 2013 at 12:42am
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Friends,
Also want to let you know that you can put your SR's cell phone on Military Suspension for the 2 months that he/she wiil be in Boot Camp. Just contact your cell phone carrier after your SR has made his/her "I'm Here" call and the phone is on its way back to you in The Box or any time after you get it back. You can do this for free and it will save on the monthly charges on that phone. You can re-activate it for the day before PIR. I was able to easily re-activate my daughter's cell phone online at Verizon Wireless.
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Criag,
Thanks for putting up the Day-by-Day here. it amazes me what our SRs go through to become United States Navy Sailors!! Proud of my Sailor daughter Daina!!!
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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