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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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RTC Graduation

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Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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ALUMNI OF PIR 10/18/2013 TG 49 - 11 Divisions (389-398 and 949)

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This Group is for those who have SAILORS that graduated 10/18/2013. A place to keep in touch with each other as your SAILORS continue on their Navy journey!

Location: Great lakes, IL
Members: 99
Latest Activity: Oct 13, 2014

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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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You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 10/18/2013 TG 49 - 11 Divisions (389-398 and 949) to add comments!

Comment by hesmyson on October 24, 2013 at 10:11pm: I read ellen0502 comments and realized she was so right! We are all part of the larger group waiting for our Sailor to report to the Fleet. It's just so much to keep track of!

Comment by alsmom on October 24, 2013 at 3:01pm: And thanks also to ellen0502 for all the help and guidance!!

Comment by kanuckone on October 24, 2013 at 2:05pm: Thank you to everyone for making this journey less challenging by providing knowledge, support, companionship, and many laughs and tears! I am so indebt with gratitude to all of you!

Comment by ellen0502 on October 24, 2013 at 10:33am: Don't leave this group stay here too. Let other know what and where and how your sailor is doing. Some of you may have sailors that end up at the same school with different ratings, and some may end up in the fleet together! Keep in touch ladies and gentlemen. :)

Comment by hesmyson on October 24, 2013 at 9:26am: Leaving this group now for focus on NNPTC with my Nuke.

Thank you everyone so much for your support!

Any other Nukes from PIR 2013-10-18 (Ship 12 Div 398) please connect.

Comment by alsmom on October 24, 2013 at 8:06am: Thank you for all your helpful tips and advice diannep!! Catmom too!!

Comment by diannep on October 24, 2013 at 8:03am: Leaving this group now. Congrats to your new sailors and blessings to all of them in their Navy futures! :-)

Comment by TxMom21 on October 22, 2013 at 10:24pm: Well, Wyatt graduated and is now in Florida. The service was beautiful and so impressive. I went to Sarge's Meet & Greet and that was very informative. I loved the Navy Lodge. The rooms were great and the staff was excellent. I meet some of the Moms from this sight and they were all very nice and their families were great as well. I cannot tell you how much this sight helped me through this process. I am so thankful to all the Moms on here and the women who give us all information. Thank you for helping me and for making this experience one of the best days of my life and my families life. Hooyah and Hip Hip Hooray for Navyformoms!!!

Comment by CatMom509 on October 22, 2013 at 2:45am: HDShortysMama,

This info is on the Boot Camp Moms' Pages section under Divisional Shirts: the shirts will be available for sale starting the Monday after PIR and until 1 year after the PIR date.

Comment by HDShortysMama on October 21, 2013 at 10:18pm: I was also wondering, how long does the divisional shirts stay up for sale on the American Outfitters site?