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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:
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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 SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy on August 28, 2010 at 8:30pm
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Diane - you are making me blush!!!! I learned all I know from YOU dear, you were the seasoned Mom on my PIR group and I was so grateful for all your help.
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Small world isn't it Diane!! I love stories like that.
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Comment by diannep on August 28, 2010 at 8:26pm
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Ok, what a small world it is....my son lived and worked about 2 hours from our home for 1.5 years as he interned, etc...before the Navy. I met a mom on N4M's who lives up there. In the course of "chatting" on here, we found out that both of her sons and mine worked at the same place at the same time! When I texted my son, he knew exactly who I was talking about and had hung out with them when he lived there. Her 3rd son (whom he didn't know) is in Navy bc now. You just never know who you will meet on N4M's!
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@reeniegalla, awe.... thanks!! I guess what bugs me is that I teach on the University level and you would never know that by my spelling, but you probably see it in my lengthy posts (we can never stop being teachers - or Mom's for that matter!) lol....
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Jane: SOBE is exactly correct. My son failed his first academic test...I didn't know because he retook and did fine and there was no call (he told me this in a phone call). When he got asmoed, he called me the day he left his division (he was asmoed for other reasons). They are very considerate with it comes to PIR plans...or as considerate as they can be! When my son joined the next division (after the asmo), he also called to give me his new info...He also said that they had study groups for the tests in this new division. He did well on all of them then. I wouldn't worry!
NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS! :-)
And, as you can see, SOBE is great with the answers too! :-)
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I really wish this site had spell check and grammar check - I read my posts and want to scream! I am missing words, have bad spelling, etc. So sorry ladies!
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@Jane - your son is not the first who wanted to quit, and I'm so proud of you for stating this out loud, because other moms need to hear this to feel better about the letters they get. Just so you know, they are never allowed to "quit" boot camp. Yes, some are kicked out for behavior because they really do want out of their, but it's not a good thing for their record and will haunt them for years. But the RDC's know that our recruits want this to just be over and they know the recruits say they would like to quit, but not really. It's the RDC's job to teach them everything they need to know and to push them to do that - remember, the RDC has a job too, and they are evaluated on their success of training recruits, so they don't want anyone to fail because it's a reflection on their work!
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@Jane - not all test failures will set a recruit back (change their PIR date), depending on the test and other factors, they often have the opportunity to re-do it. Especially PFA's and of course, BS-21. My understanding of a recruit calling home about a change of PIR date is that they would call you "that" day. The Navy understands people make plans, so I believe they are punctual on this matter. But they do everything they can to help the recruit before they set them back (which is a good thing!). So, no news really is good news!
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Comment by sondra on August 28, 2010 at 3:40pm
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Prayers definatly going up for this family! So sad to hear of the loss.
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Ladies, pray for the family/friends of James Michael Swink. He was a Navy corpsman in Afghanistan, killed on Thurs, the 26th. I understand he had only been over there for 6 weeks.
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