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ALUMNI OF PIR 08/30/2013 TG 42 - 11 Divisions (321-330 and 942)

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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: 103
Latest Activity: Feb 3, 2014

WELCOME to PIR 08/30/2013! 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.

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forN4M's Community Guidelines and OPSEC.

~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".

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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 12, 2013 at 8:19am: Hi everyone I am one of the volunteers here to help you through this experience :) I am so excited to join you here for this journey. I hope you all are having a good week so far. I know how hard this is for so many of you. And as hard as it is to believe the boot camp time will pass pretty quickly. I was a mess when my daughter was there. I didn't have much time to prepare as she was only in DEP one month and then she was gone. I was and am a worrier lol so I was always wondering what she was doing and how she was. But it all turned out great and it is so hard for me to believe it has been more than three years. Now she is a Sailor and is married to a Sailor and they are expecting their first baby and my first grand baby :) I am still here helping others get through this experience and I love it. If you have any questions or concerns please just let us know and feel free to send me a friend request if you like. I am happy to help in any way I can.

I always say the days drag by but the weeks pass quickly so, try to find something fun to do and stay busy. If you have little ones at home there are several things you can do to make this journey a little easier for the, Make a paper chain with a link for each day they have left in boot camp and let them remove one link each day. It will help them see that this is only temporary. Other have also put a quarter in a jar for every day left and each week allowed the child/children to use the money for an ice-cream cone or even for a special card to send to their recruit, gumballs or gummy bears in a jar work well too and they get a tiny little treat each day. So many things can make it a better experience for them. Welcome to your PIR group, we are happy to have you here.

Comment by diannep on July 12, 2013 at 7:58am: Good Morning All!~

Comment by Mommyto2sailors on July 12, 2013 at 1:36am: We got the form letter (Ship 13 Div 321). All the info matched what the recruiter had given us so that is good! It was great to see his writing if that's all we can get for now. In the section where he lists who is coming for graduation he put "mom, dad and baby duck".... He calls his sister baby duck so that made us cry for sure!

Comment by belovedbyHim on July 12, 2013 at 12:51am: My Letter came today. No note or anything though. Letters addressed, stamped, and ready to go out in the morning mail. I hope to get real news from him soon!! GOD I miss him so much!!!

Comment by Iri on July 11, 2013 at 11:11pm: Hi emroha2, my son's situation was somehow different, he didn't get to do what he wanted to, he wanted to be a corpsman, but the job was not available, so they assigned him AD, which we thought would be good work experience, but then his recruiter called suddenly and offered AS, my son took it. I'm hoping that he will be happy with that job assignment, and that he will excel in it. But what do I know...I have to remind my self, that our military men/women volunteer, and risk their lives because they are selfless by nature, so what ever they are told to do, they will do, unlike the majority.

Comment by Navy Wife (Div 321) on July 11, 2013 at 11:09pm: Thank u ellen0502 thats exactly what ut sounded like and i figured someone was there but at least he was able to squeeze in an i love u i guess i was just worried bc i thought the navy had all this info already he had it to his recruiter and then at meps so thats all and they always say no news is good news so i was like oh man its not three weeks this is not the good phone call so i guess i was just a little worried but thank u for help clearing that up for me i aprechiate it im just so clueless with everyhing and its hard bc i dont have a leetter yet from him u cant call so i juat dont know how he feels whats going on and so fourth so juat frustrating

Comment by Iri on July 11, 2013 at 10:58pm: Cos333333 & Eaglefan, my son is also division 322, I got the the generic letter yesterday, his handwriting is an indication of good changes to come! I pushed him to write legibly but it never worked, hmm...I wonder what they did to get that writing out of him:). Cos333333, I'm from CA, and close to San Diego, he will love it! The weather is beautiful, and there is lot to do....the downside, he might want to stay here ;)

Comment by ellen0502 on July 11, 2013 at 10:18pm: emroha, That would have been a call for additional information your SR needs for the security clearance for his rating (job). It is a very formal call and they are not allowed to chit chat when they make those calls, everything is on the up and up. It's just kind of a weird call since your SR almost acts like he/she doesn't know who is on the other end of the phone. They do have someone standing over them while they make that call to make sure nothing us said except for asking what is needed.

Get all of that info together and get it faxed it is necessary!

Comment by Navy Wife (Div 321) on July 11, 2013 at 10:07pm: Hey Napstersmom and tonyajosh my husband is in that one tooooooooo!!!!! By the way question i got a call from him today but it was just him needing to fax over all our info like marrage cert, all birth certs, and socials for me him and my daughter but we did that before he left i thought they had everything does anybody know why they would need this i couldnt talk to him they told hiom just tell her what you need and to; have faaxed by tonight and that was it and he threw in a quick i love ;you before hanging up :(