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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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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

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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 diannep on September 17, 2015 at 4:50pm: Also, connectwithnavy, to add to CatMom's post, if someone really wants to stay at Navy Lodge (good rates, close to base), tell them to keep calling the hotel directly to see about cancellatoins...they get them all of the time!

Comment by CatMom509 on September 17, 2015 at 4:09pm: connectwithnavy,

Recommended hotels in the Waukegan/Gurnee area 10 mins from RTC are Springhill Suites, Residence Inn, Holiday Inn Express, and Courtyard Marriot. There is a Super Walmart, Sarge's Meet & Greet at the Sundance Saloon (closed to the public for his Navy family only event - kid friendly too), many places to eat too. Any other hotels you are considering, please look up their reviews on www.tripadvisor.com .

Comment by CatMom509 on September 17, 2015 at 4:06pm: Hello All!

   "Look at the nations and watch -- and be utterly amazed.

    For I am going to do something in your days

    that you would not believe, even if you were told."

                                                         Habakkuk 1:5

Comment by connectwithnavy on September 17, 2015 at 10:53am: diannep, was there something on this site recently about feedback on hotels to stay in while attending PIRs? I know I read it, and now I can't find it. A friend who has just begun researching will need to find a place for 10/23/2015 PIR. She will start with Navy Lodge, but I think someone said that it is full for those dates. Any help you can offer, please...

Comment by ProudMominIdaho on September 17, 2015 at 10:18am: Wen im waiting to hear from my daughter in ship 3 div 358 too! I cant wait to hear her voice

Comment by diannep on September 17, 2015 at 8:10am: Me too, Nicki!

Good Morning All !

Comment by CatMom509 on September 16, 2015 at 5:06pm: Greetings!

"...Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."

Hebrews 13:5b

Comment by Nicki on September 16, 2015 at 1:55pm: Thank you diannep and BMC I just hope to get something soon..

Comment by diannep on September 16, 2015 at 11:06am: Nicki: I so agree with bmc. It is so hard not to hear from them, but know that if anything changes with them...if they are setback or discharged.....they will call. So not hearing anything for that reason is good! I know you just need to hear your SR's voice/read their handwriting....and I hope that happens for you soon!

Comment by bmc321 on September 16, 2015 at 10:02am: Nicki- I agree, it is definitely getting harder the more I hear how other loved ones have heard from or received mail from their SR...Keep the Faith..."No News Is Good News", if their were a problem, we would be the first to know. I find writing daily to my SR helps! Hang in there!!