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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
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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.
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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."
Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
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**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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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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ALUMNI OF PIR 09/05/2014 TG 43 - 09 Divisions (273-280, and 943)
Information
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
WELCOME to PIR 09/05/2014! 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"
Discussion Forum
Ship 13 (USS Marvin Shields) Division 277 and 278 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Lynnie78 Sep 8, 2014. 3 Replies 0 Likes
^^^^^BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST ! ^^^^^
Started by diannep. Last reply by TCmom Aug 26, 2014. 2 Replies 1 Like
Ship 12 (USS Triton) Divisions 275 and 276 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by MamaBurt Ship12 Div275 Aug 19, 2014. 36 Replies 5 Likes
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 943
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by HuskerMom Aug 18, 2014. 2 Replies 3 Likes
Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 273 and 274 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by SusanB Aug 18, 2014. 6 Replies 4 Likes
Ship 11 (USS Kearsarge) Divisons 279 and 280 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by NancyB59 Aug 15, 2014. 18 Replies 1 Like
Happy Saturday Ship 11 Div 279 Mom's (and family members)
Started by NancyB59. Last reply by ellen0502 Aug 10, 2014. 1 Reply 0 Likes
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Aug 4, 2014. 5 Replies 1 Like
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Comment by Lynnie78 on July 27, 2014 at 10:44am
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We have received one call and one letter... He has called his girlfriend and has sent her two letters as well as to a friend. He called gf yesterday and it sounds like he is doing great! He is doing well in PT and has not had anything negative to say thus far! Can't believe it has been almost three weeks! Miss him like crazy but so proud
It sounds like phone calls are a reward and as a division they either earn them or dont
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Comment by diannep on July 27, 2014 at 8:21am
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JTD'sMom: They may tell the SRs they can quit to take away the power of their threat to quit, hoping it gets them angry and they decide to stay and work hard. Prayers for all of the SRs this early in Bootcamp, that they will push through and be at PIR! Not sure if they are just "allowed" to quit like that.... The build back up process starts in about Training Week 4, which is usually Bootcamp Week 5 or so. So it will be a while for this group....so pray for endurance and lots of energy!
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Comment by MamaBurt Ship12 Div275 on July 27, 2014 at 8:18am
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Good Morning and thank you La la for the advice!
Eastyn is BEAUTIFUL - what a cutie! That pic with her fist in the air and a huge smile is priceless!!!
Very cute party decor too, I must say!
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JTD'sMom: CatMom makes a very good point....there is always a chain of command in life! I think what is probably bothering him more is all of the yelling and screaming going on right now...during the "tearing down" period of bootcamp, trying to get all of the SRs on the "same page" so they can build them up into sailors. That is not a fun process and many feel that they cannot do anything right....even if some are avoiding being yelled/screamed at, they are watching their shipmates go through this, and many times, the "team" is punished for one shipmate's error. The goal is to get them angry with one another, but then to realize that they all benefit if they HELP one another. That process takes a few weeks before they "get it." Then they perform so much better as a team and make some lasting friendships! My son was at Bootcamp in 2009, is out of the Navy now and using his GI Bill for college, and still stays in touch with "shipmates" from Bootcamp....some who went to A School with him and then were stationed near him. I hope that he changes his mind and sticks with it!
MamaBurt: I hope that things get better for your SR too....it is still early...not too many LOVE IT right now, although they may tell family members this to keep them from worrying!
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What a cutie, Lala! Happy Birthday to her!
Good Morning All !
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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 27, 2014 at 7:17am
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Good morning Navy family, I am spending the weekend with lots of family celebrating my Sailor's baby girls first birthday <3 I can't believe she is a year old already. My how time flies. I hope you all are having a great weekend. Remember to take time to enjoy each day, you don't get them back. Your recruits will hopefully get to spend some time today writing to you about their week so do something fun and write them about your adventure. Today I am going to ride a jet ski for the first time ever in my life. Wish me luck lol. Time to brag and show off my beautiful 1yr old granddaughter Eastyn; she is such a sweet sweet baby <3
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MammaBurt, you can delete the posts you don't want. Look in the top right corner where the post is and click on the little X :)
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SORRY FOR TRIPLE POST! IT WAS LAGGY and I didn't know it would post so many times. Can someone delete 2 of them? I don't know if i can
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Hello all sleepless Mamas... I got two calls this week. On Thursday it was a security clearance related call and we were able to chat and he sounded SO GOOD! Then today we got a call in the evening and he was so stressed out... could barely talk, choking back tears... He says it is always up and down here at boot camp. Just like JTD's Mom's son, he hates it. although I was too scared to ask about quitting.
So I tried to talk about the brighter future, the benefits, how fast time is flying... He seemed a little relieved by the end, but it is really heartbreaking. Needless to say, I am not sleeping, doing more reading and research on how to encourage him more. Hugs.
No letter to us, he told me he has no energy to write, he did write to his girlfriend- which is fine with me. He says sometimes he doesn't read our letters because he doesn't want to get emotional just before bed : (
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Comment by CatMom509 on July 27, 2014 at 1:19am
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Debbster,
I see your SR is in Division 943, which is a performing division. Please check out "800 and 900 Divisions" up in the Pages section. They are much more busy since they are learning to perform at the PIRs before their own AND going through the regular Navy training too. So they have a big reason why they may be a bit more tired to write. Hoping you will get a call soon--but he may have watch too, which could be a reason for no call... Just remember, "No News is Good News!"
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