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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.
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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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
Welcome to the group with SAILORS who graduated Boot Camp on 09/06/2013. A place to keep up with each other as your sailors continue their journey in the Navy.
Location: Great Lakes. IL
Members: 107
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013
~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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bchis/taptap: They can't mail out until the Recruit Mail Petty Officer is trained. Hopefully the mail out happened this past Monday...if not, it probably will be next Monday.
NavyDad: Sure hope it all works out. When my son was there, he had put on his paperwork that he thought he had a reaction to epinephrine. This was told to him by a dermatologist years earlier....but personally, I think that her "assistant" gave him too much...she was not being supervised at the time and gave him shot after shot. Since it was never confirmed by another authority (the dr just told me that she THOUGHT he could have an issue with it), it was ok. Let us know what happens!
No mail here yet from Ship/12 Div 331. My son said they could send letters out beginning this past Sunday. I am hopeful that tomorrow is the day!
@taptap22
No mail for me either. :/ -- My wife is on Ship 12/Div 331 and the only thing I've gotten is the form letter and a call this past Saturday. She said she's written tons but that she isn't allowed to mail it yet. That was on the back of the form letter. I hope it is here tomorrow. I didn't have time to pry into why she couldn't mail her stuff yet.
Has anyone from Ship 12/Division 331 received any mail? We have received the form letter but no personal letters yet?? I'm sure my mail lady thinks i'm stalking her! Having one of those days I miss my son so much, just want mail (or a call!) from him and the mail has already came for us today.
So she had a waiver for penicillin. I couldn't quite understand her when she called but something happened to where she took some antibiotics and she got a rash. She says it was from sleeping in their uniforms after a ruck march last week. She actually was only told that she was allergic to penicillin by her mother because she is, there were no facts behind it. So I am hoping that when they do the test today, they find out shes not allergic to any of them.
So we got another letter form our daughter today (Ship 14 DIV 336). They are having her take an allergy test for penicillin today, hoping that works out well for her. They said if she is allergic to all antibiotics they will have to send her home.
She also mentioned that they sent the form letter home last Monday (7/15) but we never received it. it was sent 5 days before her letters so it should have been here. Did anyone else from the same ship/div get their form letters? Any advice on what to do?
Hi Friends!
"Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever."
Proverbs 107:1
MontanaMom,
Your emotions will come and go at the drop of a hat. That will always happen as long as they are on this Navy journey. Warms my heart to know of other parents who look at our Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen, and Marines and are thankful that they are serving our country!! You came up to that Soldier and was his mom for that day~~
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