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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."
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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 BrandyJ'sMom(ship12div314) on July 10, 2013 at 11:39pm
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Thank u Lala and diannep,
you know how it is, just feeling a little down right now.
I know he loves me. I'll keep checking that mailbox and keep sending to him. (:
So glad you all are here.
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Comment by diannep on July 10, 2013 at 11:21pm
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Brandy: My son told me he would not write before he left for bootcamp...but would call when allowed. Well, he wrote me 5 letters! A record! Each one at least 2 pages long. It is amazing what they will do, that they don't normally LIKE to do, when they are in bootcamp and miss their family/friends! So be checking that mailbox!
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 10, 2013 at 10:21pm
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They usually change their minds Brandy so hopefully he will write :)
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So what if they don't want to call or write home? ): my son hates writing. Just wondering.
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Andrea: The ladies are exactly right. Being the last 2 divisions to fill up -319/320, form letters will be a little later. Hang in there!
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NavyBugMom: I would take the suitcase and let her decide there what she wants!
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Comment by ellen0502 on July 10, 2013 at 7:39pm
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NavyBugMom, Scale it back a little or a whole bunch...LOL They don't have much storage space while in school and in GL they can get moved to different rooms and ships several times. Ask her again what she wants you to bring her and then talk her out of most of it...LOL
My son moved a total of eight times while in A School at GL, and 5 of them came in the last two weeks of school, which was immediately before the holiday stand down. He changed ships three times, moved across the hall once, down a floor once, into a locker at holiday stand down, and into the holding ship the last time before moving to San Diego.
Moving a whole lot of stuff would not be fun.
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Comment by AllieShip3div315 on July 10, 2013 at 7:29pm
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his job is abf but his.....nvm misread it.....
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Allie, Is that his rate or rating? What will be your husbands "job" in the Navy?
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I don't know if anyone here knows this or not but I just realized that on my husbands contract his paygrade is GS- not E-. is this normal? I thought all the military paygrades were E-1 and up but the GS seems to be civillian is this just until he graduates?
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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