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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.
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:
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ALUMNI OF PIR 10/03/2014 TG 47 - 11 Divisions (305-314 and 947)
Information
This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on October 3, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 91
Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2015
WELCOME to PIR 10/03/2014! 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 313 and 314 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Belinda Oct 10, 2014. 108 Replies 3 Likes
Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 309 and 310 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by lovingmom Sep 30, 2014. 45 Replies 5 Likes
Ship 11 (USS Kearsarge) Divisons 305 and 306 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by J'sstepmom (Ship11/Div 305) Sep 26, 2014. 16 Replies 5 Likes
Ship 09 (USS John F Kennedy) Divisions 307 and 308 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by HollyPhx Sep 26, 2014. 26 Replies 9 Likes
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Sep 21, 2014. 6 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 12 (USS Triton) Divisions 311 and 312 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by navyprincessmom Sep 17, 2014. 22 Replies 2 Likes
My sr is sh 13 div314
Started by VICTOR'SMOM. Last reply by ellen0502 Sep 11, 2014. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 947
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by ambermc Aug 20, 2014. 2 Replies 2 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by FlowerPowerNavyMom on September 22, 2014 at 7:34am
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Good Morning Moms!!!! We are getting so close!
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Comment by williewish on September 22, 2014 at 7:32am
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Good morning from a chilly morning in Wisconsin,
I wish that I had not cleaned our son's room but, with the house being on the market, I really had no choice. Every time I go down into his room, I want the clock to go back. I want to see him down there in that room full of of his survival tents and so on. BUT.....SUPER EXCITED! The countdown is on. I just said to my husband yesterday, " I still have not bought any boxers ". I better ask, maybe he too does not want them.
Have a wonderful day to everyone!
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Comment by J'sstepmom (Ship11/Div 305) on September 22, 2014 at 7:24am
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Good Morning All!!!
I "finally" worked the nerve to organize and clean my SR's room yesterday. Left all his things in place just organized it all. To my surprise, it was quite comforting. Going through drawers and seeing all the things he kept. Little notes that I had written him over the years. It gave me such a peace. It was like he was there. So weird. Maybe because I am so excited we are a week and a half away!!!!!! :) oh and the last time we spoke, I asked him what clothes he wanted me to bring. Boxers etc. He said no boxers. That he was actually used to the "skivies" now. That made me laugh so hard because he was NOT a happy camper about that detail in the beginning. Haha
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Comment by diannep on September 22, 2014 at 7:09am
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Good Morning!
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Comment by CatMom509 on September 21, 2014 at 8:15pm
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Dcmmom,
I booked with Enterprise Rent-A-Car as listed on my PIR Tips. They accept debit cards and didn't require a deposit when I used them. It is the same one just off the O'Hare airport. They have a shuttle that you catch outiside of baggage claim and their phone number is on my Tips~~
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DylsMom,
Any chance you can borrow a coat from a good friend or relative? It will save you from having to purchase one for this trip only!
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Blessed Sunday!
"You should clothe yourselves instead
with the beauty that comes from within."
I Peter 3:4
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Here's the link for Lovells in Lake Forest:
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DylsMom: ambermc has a great idea! And the Walmart she mentioned is right next to Sarge's MeetandGreet so it would be very convenient!
After my son's PIR, he didn't return from his ship for about 30 minutes. But he admitted he was talking to all of his shipmates before he left! :-)
I want to suggest Lovells in Lake Forest for those looking for a nice place for lunch/early dinner for their sailors. Owned by Astronaut Jim Lovell, we have heard rave reviews on it.....sailor eats for free. They take reservations. For those wanting to make reservations anywhere for lunch (not for GL A School students....they will be moving over to that base until mid afternoon after PIR)....you probably don't want to make them before 1 pm....gives you time to look around RTC and get to your place for lunch.
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Comment by ambermc on September 21, 2014 at 5:56pm
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PIR ends at 10:30 and liberty call at about 10:35. They are prompt. I don't know if your son will have to go do anything after PIR. You might as him while you still have a chance to get a response, or someone here probably knows. My SR's box of stuff was returned to Great Lakes because no one signed for it, so we have to go get that box before we can leave. He's HOPING they will let him stash it with his stuff so he can leave with us directly from PIR, but we'll see.
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