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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.
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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)
Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC
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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 08/23/2013 TG 41 - 11 Divisions (311-320 and 941)
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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.
Members: 91
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013
WELCOME to PIR 08/23/2013! PLEASE See the PAGES section for Informational Posts about BC and PIR. PAGES is underneath the Members Photos. PLEASE scroll down this page here to find the Comment Box to post a reply to the PIR GROUP.
~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 PROUDOFDANIEL on July 30, 2013 at 12:30pm
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i know they are allowed 4 guests at PIR. Does his niece who is under 2 count? And is she allowed in that young?
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Comment by diannep on July 30, 2013 at 8:12am
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Good Morning All !
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Comment by CatMom509 on July 30, 2013 at 2:50am
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FTLW,
We both ended up with winners as our hubbies were "hands on" daddies! We also had a rule with whoever holding the baby smelling the poopie diaper would be the one who changed it--no passing the baby off!
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Comment by Alwaysveeship14div318 on July 30, 2013 at 12:54am
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25 more days .... Can't wait. It's going to be like Christmas waiting for the best gift ever!!
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Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 29, 2013 at 3:32pm
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Amen to that CatMom! It hurts AND it's not good for mom...so the "girls" should get equal time LOL
I remember those nights of BOTH of us being sleepy but having to remember to turn over!
Hubby was so sweet, when he would hear the baby cry he would get out of bed and bring him to me...plus, I think he felt a little left out since he couldn't feed him:-(. (He ALWAYS changed a diaper too...didn't run away from the "bombs" !)
I remember those days...luckily, my Lamaze coach was also a breastfeeding coach! Since my parents generation mostly bottle-fed I was lucky to have her and also the La Leche league book!
I had a C-section (all three boys) and so dear baby was bottle-fed and that's always easier for the baby...the "food" comes right away! With nursing they have to "get the hang of it". It takes a little more work to get the food flowing!
She told me to "nurse all the time" Ugh..it was every hour to get the milk production going. I was a wreck until it all settled in!
But it was worth it.
So happy for your Family LaLa!
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Hi Friends!
"I will give You thanks in the great assembly;
among throngs of people I will praise You."
Psalm 35:18
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Lala,
Your daughter also needs to make sure Eastyn is nursing from both sides at each feeding. If she is falling asleep on one side, then she needs to wake her up to nurse on the other side too. I'd have to unwrap my Donica when she did that to wake her up and it made for more frequent nursing sessions because she wasn't getting her full feeding being a sleepy little baby!! Plus it hurts to be lopsided with milk~~
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 29, 2013 at 8:48am
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Thanks Andrea. I will pass that info onto my Sailor :) Good morning everyone, welcome back FTLW :)
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Good Morning All !
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Hello! I am late to the party! LOL
Another "Veteran" Mom checking in!
My Sailor PIR’d in 05/2011. He is a Seabee Reservist. I have been an AF (Security Forces) Reservist wife for 28 + years…I know …not Navy…but I am somewhat familiar with military life! We have been through two Deployments. Our son enlisted while Hubby was in Iraq. This site was a Godsend and helped me get through not only our sons BC experience but my husbands and my separation for 6 months.
I am a “veteran” mom on the PIR groups mostly. I have been on them now for over a year and we have 7-8 PIR groups running at the same time.
Pages (6)
- N4M’s Community Guidelines and OPSEC
- SHIP/DIVISIONS ~~ What are they and how do they fill them?
- Calls from your SR
- RTC Website and RTC Family Guide links
- 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!
- LIVESTREAMING OF PIR SERVICE ON INTERNET
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