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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.
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."
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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
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~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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Barbara: It will get better....hang in there. A School is great in that you will have communication back again!
Your Form Letters, calls, and personal letters are coming!! Just keep in mind that Boot Camp is training Navy families too for the future long periods when your sailors are on deployment with no communication~~ The Recruit Mail Petty Officer is being trained to process the mountain of mail your SRs are receiving. Security phone calls for info are short and supervised--no chit chat. The personal ones happen when the RDCs can schedule them and some SRs may be on watch when calls happen and it is up to the RDCs to allow a make-up call~~ Be ready always for a phone call!
Hello All!
"But thanks be to God, Who always leads us
as captives in Christ's triumphal procession
and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge
of Him everywhere."
II Corinthians 2:14
I feel like I am the only one that has not gotten a form letter. I promise I am not normally this obessive:)
I just want a letter. but reading on the FB group that other kids have called and sounded sad and regrettful is (sorry) making me feel better to know that our SR is not the only one feeling that way. I will jump for joy when I get his form letter. Been six days since his call............so no news is good news to me.
mtice12- wow! great for you! i will keep my phone glued to my side!!!
Hi Mtice12,
What ship/div is he on?
Thanks bmc321. It was 2 weeks Tuesday and it's getting easier and harder at the same time lol.
Barbara77- You are not Alone!! Yesterday was 2 weeks and we had a family b.day...I cried all night....I have to believe it will get easier once we hear from them!! Remember "No News Is Good News" ...At least that is what I say to myself 24/7!!! Prayer are with you ...
I have no idea why but today has been one of the hardest days on me since my daughter left. No call or letter is making me crazy and I've burst into tears about every 15 minutes all day!! I hope that once I hear something and know she's ok I'll feel better but right now it's killing me not knowing how my baby is.
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