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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.
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."
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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: 108
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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Velitia: I would definitely join the Pensacola Group, but even if things change it's easy to go between the two airports. If the link above doesn't work, just google the Chicago Transit Authority and map the route from O'Hare to Midway. Whichever direction you go, it's only an hour and a quarter on the train with one change downtown (although it could be a booger if you travel with a lot of luggage.) Cost about 5 bucks.
Velitia: You may want to join the Pensacola A School group (link below) and ask the ladies on there which one they flew from. No guarantees it would always be the same one, but a good chance:
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/sailorsinpensicolaflforaschool
I just want you all to know I still love ya lol. I have not forgotten about you!!! We are traveling around the world this weekend haha. Well not really. My Sailor and baby Eastyn came home last Monday and surprised us. GREAT Surprise :) She rode back home with her in-laws so that meant she needed a way back to VA Beach. So Friday we all headed to my son's Fire Academy Boot Camp graduation near Charlotte. It was so nice to finally see him again after 8 long weeks. Very proud of him <3 We spent the night with my brother in Charlotte. Left yesterday morning to go to Wilmington NC to move our other daughter into her new apartment at UNCW. It's like a convoy with a 14' UHAUL and two cars lol. Today we say goodbye to her and leave Wilmington and head to VA Beach to take our Sailor and Eastyn home. We will spend the night there and then drive back 7-8 hours home to WNC tomorrow. Man I am pooped and that is a lot of traveling with a 3 week old baby. I promise things will get back to normal in a few days and you will have lots of my attention :) I hope you all are having a great weekend.
Good Morning!
Friends,
I just posted my "PERTINENT PIR TIPS" up in the Discussion Forum. Please check it out for anything you can glean for your own PIR!
I agree with diannep, if your SR lets the RDCs know he is having a physical problem, he will be allowed to rest and recoup to pass the final PFA. If he doesn't say anything, he may fail the final PFA and won't have any time to heal before Battlestations for his division comes. He needs to have it medically dealt with now.
tidbits: If they are really hurting him, he will probably have to confess that. Shin splints are very common during Bootcamp and require some rest for healing. If he is having trouble with his run because of them, he needs to speak up. If they aren't bad enough to interfere with that, it is up to him....but when he could be delayed is if they are really bad, he doesn't speak up, they get worse, and he can't pass his final PFA in order to graduate. It is a hard call that only he can make, but if he is in so much pain that it is affecting his training, he probably needs to let them know.
Just my 2 cents worth...shin splints don't always mean a delayed graduation date, depending on how severe they are.
My SR apparently thinks he has shin splints but is scared to tell anyone for fear of being kicked out or held back. He really wants the Navy and Aircrew but is in a lot of pain. It is holding his running back. I feel so bad but have no idea what to tell him. Any advice will be greatly appreciated!!
Cacling: They really do all they can for the SRs to keep from holding them back....hoping that he heals quickly and with some light duty days and PT, will be able to continue training with his division. This is really one of those times where no news is good news since if he is asmoed (setback) for any reason, he has to call you with that info. I know this from personal experience since my son was asmoed when he was at bootcamp...for a week.
Glad to see this group more active today...and yes, I know that usually when a group is quiet, most are on FB! We just miss you guys when you don't post for a while! Try to stay on both groups if possible when you can! We N4Moms veterans love helping you all...on both N4Moms and FB! I know that Lala and some other wonderful N4Moms veterans are over on FB to help guide you all. There was a time when that wasn't the case and, boy, were things getting mixed up! Someone from a FB group would finally come back over on this group to try and get the right answers. Now, more accurate info is shared, so that is a great thing!
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