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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.
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:
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.
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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on September 5, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 78
Latest Activity: Jul 27, 2015
~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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Everyone gets calls of varying times depending on how well the division is doing~~ So just receiving a call is just the best thing!!
Hello All!
"But now, Lord, what do I look for?
My hope is in You."
Psalm 39:7
staceybea12 my fiancé is in the same division as your son!
Also... we got to talk for 21 MINUTES!!!! So grateful!!
SHIP 14/DIV 273. Received my call this morning and have been on cloud nine ever since. It's amazing how hearing their voice can put a mom in such a good mood. :) I also got the run down on what he's been doing. He seems to be on "watch" a lot. He sounded great!! The next couple weeks will be grueling but he's doing GREAT!!! Stay strong Navy Moms!!!
Glad to see calls coming in. :)
Ship 13/Div 277: Received my call this morning while shopping at Menards. Found a bed and sat down...lol! My son is the Division Leader (so PROUD) and he's losing his voice from yelling the commands so I kept the call fairly short. He said he is doing well. A little tougher than expected but he's ready for it. He said he sleeps well and the food is good. Swimming starts Monday and he may need to have his wisdom teeth pulled...TBD after xrays. So glad for the call, I could tell in his voice that things are good!! I am just 20 minutes down the road from Great Lakes but not any easier as a Mom!
One more thing (since we were fortunate enough to get a 20 minute call- we could ask him some things and talk a bit) for anyone who doesn't get a chance to talk on the phone: I specifically asked him how his division seems and is anyone struggling, to his knowledge he said everyone with him seemed to be doing ok! :-)
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