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ALUMNI OF PIR 10/23/2015 TG 50 - 09 Divisions (353-360, and 950)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 10/23/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 57
Latest Activity: Dec 1, 2016

WELCOME to PIR 10/23/2015! 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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N4M'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 FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on October 17, 2015 at 12:19pm: OPSEC

I know that this is very new to many of you. Many are new to the Military so you just don't know. It can take a while to gain knowledge and then train yourselves on what to do and what not to do. I would say if you were going to pick a starting point of what to learn first (and have become a part of your "new normal") then OPSEC would be my number one choice every time. PERSEC (PERsonal SECurity) would be right up there with it...1A and 1B so to speak.

Forward movement of personnel is just one issue of OPSEC. There are many others. Operational Readiness, training exercises, equipment are some others.

A couple of other OPSEC BC areas that come to mind (just to make you aware of) would be Battlestations itself and Flight Itineraries for your Sailors.

Your Recruits sign a Confidentiality Statement concerning the details of BST-21. They are not allowed to discuss this with anyone.

For those of you who will have Sailors flying out to their A schools you can only get this info directly from your Sailor. Do not discuss the details (Airline, departure and arrival times/dates) of this info with anyone or post it on social media. The general info we talk about on here is all right.

When in doubt...less is better...none is best.

Comment by kathy0303 on October 17, 2015 at 12:07pm: I just want to take a moment to apologize for my post yesterday. I honestly had no idea I was breaching security. The safety of EVERY single person is my utmost concern. Imagine my horror when I woke up this morning and found my email was flooded with comments about it. I immediately went to delete my comment but thankfully, someone else had already done it. Again, I'm sorry.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on October 17, 2015 at 11:59am: Nancy - That's wonderful! Congrats!

Comment by Nancy on October 17, 2015 at 11:36am: Thanks for the update on bs post. On a happy note, I just saw my son in yesterday's PIR. He served as a Side Boy. So thrilling to see his face and praying for all of our SR's during this final week. NMP for all of the families,too.

Comment by ellen0502 on October 17, 2015 at 11:35am: JAGGLILPIL, This shouldn't have stopped you from posting yesterday. Sometimes this site is just picky when trying to post. It doesn't happen often, but when it does it can be frustrating.

Comment by ellen0502 on October 17, 2015 at 10:51am: We saw it and had hoped for a response to delete it, but alas we had to resort to the next available option when there was no response.

Thank you for your post to delete it. :)

Comment by Barbara77 on October 17, 2015 at 6:57am: I was wondering how long it would take for someone to notice that was posted. I had made a comment to delete it to the person that posted it.

Comment by CatMom509 on October 17, 2015 at 4:58am: Everyone,

This is serious! The only way to possibly share a BS date is to do it via private message with others in this PIR group. This means you have to Friend each other.

BS dates -- even references like Tuesday of next week, etc.. cannot be on this Comment Wall or as a topic on a Discussion here or anywhere on Navy for Moms. When your Sailors are out in Fleet after A school training, it's even more important to not say where a ship is or is going to or when your Sailor is arriving home in port, etc.... Nothing can be discussed till after the fact. All it takes is bits and pieces of information to come to the U.S.'s enemies for them to use....please, please keep our Sailors safety above all else in your minds!!

Comment by CatMom509 on October 17, 2015 at 4:42am: Greetings!

     "All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful

      toward those who keep the demands of His covenant."

                                                                  Psalm 25:10

Comment by ellen0502 on October 16, 2015 at 11:22pm: Ok everyone, I hate to do it, but this is a hard lesson in OPSEC, and the term "Loose lips sink ships". One oops can do it for all.

A BattleStations date has been posted and the RTC considers this ship movement, unfortunately because of how it was posted I have no way of removing it. I hope the administrator of this site can take care of it soon.

I can only do what I can do, and that is to make it not visible to the public. I have to hide all the division discussions until the "problem" can be taken care of, I can't "hide" just one. You will not be able to see or post to any of them until it is taken care of, and knock on wood it can be done quickly.