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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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Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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ALUMNI OF PIR 08/17/2012TG 40 — 13 Divisions (249–260 & 940)

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PIR 08/17/2012

Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir07202012
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 113
Latest Activity: Aug 23, 2012

Welcome to PIR 08/17/2012

OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance. Please take the timeto read the OPSEC and Community Guidelines. A quick note here: Last Names of Sailors/Recruits are not allowed on this site. If it is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended. First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture.

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Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 19, 2012 at 2:31pm: ibmom - Thanks for the asisst!

Comment by ibmom on July 19, 2012 at 10:26am: FTLW, it looks like if you click on the Facebook share icon in the discusion that it will put it on your timeline and let you add a comment. I cancelled it instead of posting because I didn't know if it posted the entire discussion or what. What it was showing it would post was the opening of the discusion, my opening post, but I just wasn't sure and I don't want all those pages on my facebook. If I have a discussion I want to start later, I'll play with it or if I see an interesting discussion later with just a few replies, I'll try it.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 19, 2012 at 9:39am: sastamey- have you checked on facebook for more members from your division? Maybe you can find some on there and invite them to join this group :-) https://www.facebook.com/groups/327167160695549/ Navy Mom PIR Friends

https://www.facebook.com/groups/46342059809/ Navy Moms

https://www.facebook.com/groups/40865546374/ Navy for Moms

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 19, 2012 at 12:47am: Oh my...it's raining and lightning in GL. I knew the Weather widget was interactive...and I have seen it snow in winter...but never lighting.

I know the WW is large but this is the smallest size for it to be so that it is interactive. Play around with it. The very top bar has the current date and time and then just below it the next four days...click the arrow and it will show more. Click the "LIVE" tab anytime to go back to current time.

The rest of the bar is for the marker (green) to move along throughout the day. You can click anywhere on it to change the time. So, if you don't see this until morning go back a day to about 12:30 AM and watch for awhile!

Hey...in the bottom left corner the number and the Olympic rings is a countdown for the London Olympics!

Wow...you can see the streaks and the whole screen lights up...

Sleep tight...to the Sailors and recruits at RTC...G'nite!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 19, 2012 at 12:08am: Maybe they're hiding... halllooooo...

Comment by sastamey (Ship 11 Div 250) on July 18, 2012 at 10:14pm: Want to meet more of you Moms, gf's, wives, etc from Division 250? I've only seen 3 of us on here. Where are you??

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 18, 2012 at 9:42pm: Say, on the Discussions...there are icons to "share", twitter and Facebook.

Has anybody ever used them?

I don't FB or Twitter...somebody want to be a detective for me? LOL

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 18, 2012 at 9:17pm: I have a mom that has an iPhone and has responded to me privately. She does what I do...stays signed in to N4M's. Then when she gets an email she clicks on the link that takes you to the site...

Mine says:

To view the new reply, visit: (and then the link)...I click it and then I wait for it to load It takes me there and I am able to reply.

She has stayed signed in to N4M's for a few weeks on her iPhone.

I will still ask about an app...but hope that helps folks with their SmartPhones. I do try to sign out at bedtime.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 18, 2012 at 5:29pm: iPhone users and actually Android too...just had moms talk about this on BC moms...and would love to look for a solution.

The problem that most are having is that you get an email notification and can't reply through email like you can to FB. You have to log onto the site and then do it. More steps involved.

Is that what you are experiencing?

I have an Android and it is the same but I have never used my emails that way. (Plus, when I first joined I did not have a smart phone at all) Since I "work" on here I need access to the whole site pretty much all day and then I can just hop on. I stay logged in and try to log out at least at night. I use my emails to follow Discussions I have created so I can reply...but I don't follow all of the groups I am on...I would have THOUSANDS of emails!(That's a personal preference...you can change your email notification settings)

But for you who have maybe your PIR group that you are following and your Division Discussion (you may have other groups but have used the Stop Following feature)...this is probably laborious...and so FB is much easier. Totally get that!

Let me know if this is an issue and any other issue and I can compile a list and report it if you haven't already.

I asked this on BC Moms as well:

Would an app for N4M's help the situation?

If so, I can suggest it and see what happens!

Comment by diannep on July 18, 2012 at 4:17pm: Hmmmm, proudmom.....Yep, sounds like "sleep when going through menopause"! Just a bunch of naps! :-)