This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

FIRST TIME HERE?

FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

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.

OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

**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).  

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED.  Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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.

Format Downloads:

Latest Activity

Navy Speak

Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms!  (Hint:  When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)

N4M Merchandise


Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.

Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.

Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

Badge

Loading…

ALUMNI OF PIR 09/19/2014 TG 45 - 10 Divisions (291-298, 818 and 945)

Information

ALUMNI OF PIR 09/19/2014 TG 45 - 10 Divisions (291-298, 818 and 945)

This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on September 19, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 105
Latest Activity: Jan 15, 2015

WELCOME to PIR 09/19/2014! 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.

CLICK ME
for
N4M'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"

Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 09/19/2014 TG 45 - 10 Divisions (291-298, 818 and 945) to add comments!

Comment by Pinkhardhatmom on August 2, 2014 at 4:13pm
Got a call this morning. He said he got the card we sent. He loved it. I am trying to write several times a week. He got sick from the shots and spent a day in medical. He sounded good. I almost forgot to wake up hubby!
Comment by AymeeTX-Ship 03 Div 293 on August 2, 2014 at 3:21pm

BEST gift to wake up to today when our SR called....he said the food is good and he received his military ID and dog tags...he sounded so pleased about that. He's been waiting for that for years :) It was about a 15 min call. He said to pray for Health for the SRs...he already has a cold, but is getting over it. It was a pretty emotional call....so thankful to hear his voice.

Comment by proudmom62 Ship 03 Div 293 on August 2, 2014 at 2:14pm

Got a phone call this morning it was the best call I ever received in my life :) my boy sounded good so that's a blessingand I was able to hold it together :) he is Ship 03 Division 293 USS Hopper any moms here with a SR in the same place ?

Comment by amberosia19 on August 2, 2014 at 1:58pm

I also got a call this morning!! Talked to my son for about 20 minutes. He told me about what life is like there, how he's adjusting, friends he's making. He was excited to tell me that he signed up for life insurance. (Seemed like a very grown up thing to me.) Most importantly he sounded good. And homesick. Man, it was HARD to hold it together and stay strong for him the couple of times he cried. What a blessing it was, though... 

Comment by Craig on August 2, 2014 at 12:22pm

Here is a picture of where your sailors are staying. 
(click on picture to make bigger)

Remember, RTC Great Lakes is actually 3 separate bases all built into one. You have:

Camp Moffett which is basically where all the check-in is done. It's also where the Firefighting and Gas Chamber is.

Camp Porter which is where Battle Stations, Marlinspike, and all the training is done. They also have living quarter for Ship 2 (USS Reuben James), Ship 3 (USS Hopper), and Ship 4 (USS Arleigh Burke), Ship 5 (USS Theodore Roosevelt), Ship 6 (USS Constitution).

Camp John Paul Jones which is basically just where most of the living quarters are. They are: Ship 7 (USS Chicago), Ship 9 (USS John F. Kennedy), Ship 11 (USS Kearsarge), Ship 12 (USS Triton), Ship 13 (USS Marvin Shields), and Ship 14 (USS Arizona).

(click on pictures to make bigger)

Comment by cranky librarian on August 2, 2014 at 11:56am

Good morning!  Does anyone know if cell phones will receive collect calls?

Comment by Maggie on August 2, 2014 at 10:58am
My son just call!! I am so happy to hear his voice he sound a little sad because he miss me!! I so proud of him!!
Comment by Jacksons Mom on August 2, 2014 at 10:56am
Got my call! Sweetest voice j have ever heard. So glad he sounded upbeat! Ship 3 Div 293.
Comment by tsufish on August 2, 2014 at 10:46am

Sometime between 2 and 8 my phone decided to stop receiving phone calls.  Like a good kid, he called his grandma!  She did her very best to IM the conversation.  Twenty minutes later my phone finally showed the arrival of his voicemail.  Listening to his voice was heartbreaking.  Can't wait until he gets to call again. 

Comment by nvduhmom. on August 2, 2014 at 10:26am
I am so glad I was sleeping with my cell phone. The best way to wake up! The only time I didn't mind the 6am phone call. He sounded great and is really enjoying it. They decided not to pull the wisdom teeth because they were not impacted. Studying and marching and looking forward to the gun training next week.
 
 
 

© 2024   Created by Navy for Moms Admin.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service