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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

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**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).

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

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

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ALUMNI OF PIR 10/04/2013 TG 47 - 11 Divisions (371-378, 818- 819 and 947)

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This Group is for those who have SAILORS that graduated 10/04/2013. A place to keep in touch with each other as your SAILORS continue on their Navy journey!

Location: Great lakes, IL
Members: 124
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013

WELCOME to PIR 10/04/2013! 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.

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forN4M'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".

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Comment by Laurel88 on August 19, 2013 at 7:10pm: Ship 12 Div 372 - my daughter called here Saturday AM. It was good to hear her voice. She sounded tired but upbeat. She was complaining that they were making her eat too much. HA! She said that she would be allowed to write on Sunday (yesterday) so now I am like a hawk waiting for that mailman to appear.

Comment by Tikkie on August 19, 2013 at 7:07pm: Has anyone with an SR in Div 819 received a call?

Comment by Couldntbeprouder Ship12 Div 371 on August 19, 2013 at 6:18pm: Anyone from Ship 12 Division 371? I got a call from my SR Saturday but still no form letter.

Comment by LovesQuilts on August 19, 2013 at 3:57pm: Janet- my son has a phone card also but don't know if he activated it either! Well I made reservations at the Navy Lodge for graduation, I will be there 10/04 whether I hear from him or not! I am very eager for the first letter from him. I'm dying to know all about it!

Comment by ladyhowl on August 19, 2013 at 1:42pm: Hi Toni, my son James is on Ship 14 Div 375. Maybe they have gotten to meet.

Comment by CatMom509 on August 19, 2013 at 12:28pm: Good Morning!

     "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom,

      teaching, admonishing one another in psalms and hymns,

      and spirtiual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord."

                                                                        Colossians 3:16

Comment by OneProudMomma on August 19, 2013 at 10:23am: Thanks DIANNEP for sharing your findings. We have a friend who went up last month and stayed at the Navy Lodge and they were very happy there.

Comment by LovesQuilts on August 19, 2013 at 9:37am: Andrew hasn't called me or his Dad yet. He does have a girlfriend, if he called her I hope she would have mentioned it to me but I haven't heard anything aside from that initial "I'm here call" Though I worry now that Andrew doesn't know our phone numbers without his cell phone. I guess I will include them in my next letter. Getting the form letter with his PIR date and address has helped with the worry but I keep telling myself that No news is good news. I didn't think they could even call before 3 weeks but now that I see divisions have been making calls I keep my phone with me at all times...just in case.

Comment by diannep on August 19, 2013 at 8:09am: Good Morning All !

Hotels that have received good reviews on this site:

Navy Lodge (recently renovated)

Springhill Suites

Courtyard Inn

Residence Inn

Holiday Inn Express (all of these except Navy Lodge are in Waukegan/Gurnee area, about 4-5 miles from RTC; Navy Lodge is about a mile from RTC)