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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 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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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: 121
Latest Activity: May 28, 2014
~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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Good Morning!
USnavymom63,
If you don't plan on renting a vehicle at all during the weekend, I think Sarge's rate beats Airport Express. It is $99 roundtrip plus you have a free ride to PIR, but have to pay $3/per person back to your hotel. Our Sailor daughter rode back free with us. We also used Sarge to get her back to base because we wanted to get some rest before meeting her at the airport. That was $6 because we coordinated with another family who needed to get their Sailor back to RTC at the same time. We met this family when Sarge picked us up to take us all to PIR. You can email Sarge at JohnSpadaro@att.net for his rates. He also has a Meet & Greet the Thursday evening before your PIR from 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm with yummy food and lots of info! It's at the Sundance Saloon and is totally family friendly as it is only for Navy families and closed to the public.
Of course, renting a vehicle is always going to be your cheapest option and you can get around more if your Sailor wants to do anything in particular.
My son is also in division 344. I have booked hotel (Holiday Inn), car rental, and flights! Myself from SC and my daughter from WA. So excited. Anyone SR going to Pensacole after graduation?
We are under the 60 day mark, that is a good thing! I will feel better when I can get a call though, I miss my son's laugh! :)
Navy Lodge here too.. Did we all get queens w kitchenettes? I wont be cooking but thought it would be convenient.. 51 days? Seems so far away but its really not...Is it?
FLMOM Looks like that makes 5 of us from DIV 343. See you there !
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