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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 08/23/2013 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 Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 24, 2013 at 9:05am
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Just an update, we are in labor and delivery, her water broke at 2:30 am contractions are good and strong. It won't be long now until Eastyn is in our arms :) we really appreciate all you thoughts and prayers for a healthy baby and mommy <3 thanks so much
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Comment by diannep on July 24, 2013 at 8:36am
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First names of your SRs are not prohibited on this site. But we like to fly under the radar here....knowing that the RDCs are on both this site and the FB groups (private or not, they have ways of getting the info)., So we recommend that you all not use first names nor piks of your SRs on here. Some RDCs are not on the sites and so it doesn't matter. But just in case....this site is for your support and we don't want any "drama" on the site from too much info that may be posted re: a particular SR. Just a suggestion!
Good Morning!
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Comment by CatMom509 on July 24, 2013 at 5:14am
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thisistuff,
You should definitely be booking your hotel and flights now since your PIR is only a month away. Favorite hotels are Holiday Inn Express, Residence Inn, Courtyard Marriot, and Springhill Suites, all in Waukegan/Gurnee. Make sure that you ask about their Navy graduation rate and compare that to their best available online rate or AAA rate. They don't require any deposit to make a reservation. Also, the Navy Lodge is another good one. It is off base not too far from RTC, but you will still need to take a shuttle or drive to PIR. You need to make a reservation under your SR's name there.
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Comment by ellen0502 on July 24, 2013 at 4:27am
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The Navy Lodge is located in the family housing of the base. It is not behind a gate. You and your Sailor can come and go from there as you please.
There is a train that takes you to Chicago and it is the only way to go. :) The station is located directly across from the PIR gate. It is $3 one way or you can buy a weekend unlimited pass for $7. Buy the weekend pass even if you don't think you will use it again, if you do end up going again it will save you lots of money. :)
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A couple of short cuts to help you navigate this site. At the top of every page are tabs "Main", "Invite", "My Page" etc. Clicking on any one of those will take you to the main page for those pages.
The "My Page" tab will take you to a page that is all about you on this site. Within that page is will show all the groups you have joined. Clicking anyone of those links will take you to the main page of that group.
Clicking on the "Groups" tab will take you to a main page of all the groups on this site. On the left side of that main page just below the tabe there are two other clickable links, "All Groups" and "My Groups". The :My Groups" tab will take you to all of the groups you have joined.
If you are looking for someone specific you can post initials, S(last name) in division *** from Ohio.
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Comment by Alwaysveeship14div318 on July 24, 2013 at 12:45am
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My son is engaged so I wonder if he's one of the men your husband has spoken of NavyWife623. He said there was only a handful of guys older than 19. I think they only go by last names and I don't think we are suppose to use them. Any nicknames?
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Comment by thisistuff on July 23, 2013 at 11:27pm
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I would think using first names would not endanger anyone:)
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Comment by NavyWife623Ship14Div318 on July 23, 2013 at 11:04pm
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My mother in law said it is. She's double chacking right now. And I don't know any first names. He didn't give them to me. I just know one had a girlfriend and the other is engaged. Lol
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NavyWife623Ship14Div318 - on the other, do you know where the people are from?? If you do you might could ask who was from that area and then message them in their inbox??? Just a suggestions:)
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NavyWife623Ship14Div318 is the Navy Lodge on the Training Command?? I also heard that there is a train or marta that will take us to down town Chicago instead of driving.
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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