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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.
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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PIR 10/1/10
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This group is intended to unite those who have loved ones with a PIR date of October 1st, 2010.
Location: USA
Members: 125
Latest Activity: Jul 30, 2013
THIS IS NOT ME YELLING...HOWEVER IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!!
ANYTHING POSTED ON THIS FORUM IS PUBLIC! EVEN IN THE DISCUSSION FORUM ABOVE! UNLESS YOU EMAIL OR PRIVATE CHAT, THE INFO YOU SHARE ON THIS WEBSITE IS 100% VIEWABLE BY ANYONE! ON THE INTERNET, IN THE WORLD, INCLUDING RDC'S IN GL! I WILL DELETE POSTS CONTAINING NAMES OF SR'S, RDC'S, OR EVEN FAMILY OF SAID. IT IS IN EVERYONES BEST INTEREST AND SAFETY TO KEEP CERTAIN INFORMATION PRIVATE.
THANK YOU FOR YOU UNDERSTANDING AND ATTENTION!
With all that out of the way, I am thrilled to have access to the information, support, and friendship on N4M. I want to keep it safe for our SR's and families, and for future SR's and their families. Please read and respect the OPSEC guidlines posted on N4M's main page. These guidelines are a foundation for your SR and family now that he/she is just days away from becoming a United States Sailor.
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Discussion Forum
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Started by Lauren - Sub Wife - Bangor, Wash. Last reply by USnavymom63 Jul 30, 2013. 28 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Bella on September 18, 2010 at 10:22pm
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TiffsMom,
LOL@ shippin undies! I told the hubs to buy some civies when he gets to A school cuz I think they have down time that they can dress casual. Of course, he might just live in his digi's cuz they are super comfy, lol.
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Comment by Tiff'sMom (Sharon) on September 18, 2010 at 10:16pm
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Dianne... she mentioned to me about bringing some of her some own undies and stuff.. lol... well, when she gets to A school will she still have to wear navy issued undies? and will I have to mail her undies and stuff to her?? That would seem weird! LOL
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Comment by diannep on September 18, 2010 at 9:52pm
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Cindy: You are right. There are girls and guys together in lots of divisions, but they have separate sleeping quarters (thank goodness). But they DO train together as a division.
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No, Tiff'sMom: I don't think they would have 63 girls in one division? I think she is talking about the total number of recruits (guys/girls) in her division now.
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Elaine, same here, I haven't bought stamps in probably a year!! haha I send some of her mail with two stamps, just in case... then yesterday at the mailbox it said on the box if it weighs more than xx ounces you have to take it in.... I don't know how much that is, so I still stuck it in the box!
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Comment by sailor_mom1 (HN-surg tech C sch) on September 18, 2010 at 9:30pm
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To Lala ribbon queen.... is it too late for me to get a ribbon for PIR 10-1......
I sent you a friend request... please let me know thank you..
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Comment by CaliMom (Maryann) on September 18, 2010 at 9:01pm
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@Reenie-from what I understand, the spec op guys do much more physical training than the other divisions. The RDCs are trying to get these guys ready for the physical trials that they will be encountering during their A schools.
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Comment by Elaine-PIR 10/1/10 on September 18, 2010 at 8:56pm
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TiffsMom, I'm going to leave the money in a baggie in the mailbox with a note saying my son is in Boot Camp. If he is a veteran, I don't know my mailman very well, maybe he won't take it. We'll see. The letter came in one of the SASE I sent my SR. It did have his BC address on it. It isn't like I haven't put mail for him to pick up in the mailbox about 3 times a week. The mailman never comes at the same time every day so I trudge out to the mailbox at least 3, sometimes 4, times a day. I have probably spent more money mailing my SR than I spend all year on postage. I pay most of my bills online and pay three of them in person because those offices are close by.
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Comment by LTLY on September 18, 2010 at 8:40pm
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Chat box-
in the bottom right side of your screen there are chat options...click on the one of those till you get what you are looking for. Then you can click each individual that is online and it will give you the option to private msg them.
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@tiffsmom, open the chat box at the bottom right
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