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ALUMNI OF PIR 10/25/2013 TG 50 - 11 Divisions (399-408 and 950)

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This Group is for those who have SAILORS that graduated 10/25/2013. A place to keep in touch with each other as your SAILORS continue on their Navy journey!

Location: Great lakes, IL
Members: 117
Latest Activity: Oct 21, 2019

WELCOME to PIR 10/25/2013! 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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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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Comment by Idaho_Ma on October 29, 2013 at 10:34am: Hi Catmom, There was a group of sailors who went to Pensacola all on the same flight at 7:00 Sunday morning. They bused just after midnight on Saturday. So it sounds like the same process that happens for Saturday flights, where they leave around midnight Friday.

With a little help we'd got my daughter's phone to her, and she texted me around 2:00 am to let me know they'd arrived at O'Hare.

We didn't go to O'Hare to see her off, because we had to be at Midway early Sunday morning for our own flights. That was OK, because spending Saturday with her was a huge gift.

Comment by diannep on October 29, 2013 at 9:00am: Thanks for the info on Lovell's Restaurant on here. Great to know that the sailors eat for free! Will add that to the info on that restaurant.

We N4Moms veterans have loved helping you! Now, remember, each of YOU is now a N4Moms veteran! So feel free to offer advice from what you have learned to the newbies!

Good Morning All !

Comment by CatMom509 on October 29, 2013 at 1:02am: Idaho Ma,

Your family surely was blessed that you got Saturday liberty with your Sailor daughter--it is rare, does happen! Did you also go to the airport with her and what time what she bused and when did her flight leave? Just curious if the Sunday flights are handled the same as the Saturday flights.

Comment by CatMom509 on October 29, 2013 at 12:59am: Aww, jeepgirl,

Sorry about that. It's so hard to know the view until after the Sailors are already on the floor. The upper balcony works for some and not others, as Besties4dogs can attest!

Glad everything else went smoothly otherwise~~

Comment by Besties4dogs (NukeMM) on October 28, 2013 at 10:01pm: We had a great time visiting our son after PIR. We also sat in the upper level balcony section but in the last row. It was a perfect place to see our tall son who was second to last in his row. Sarge was spot on on his advice. We also went to Lovells for dinner and they comped our son's dinner. We would actually recommend the lamb, it was perfect! I miss my new sailor so much already. Unfortunately, he is in THU for a few weeks so we have not been able to talk/text/message him since we left yesterday at noon :(

Comment by Idaho_Ma on October 28, 2013 at 7:30pm: To all the veteran moms who gave us advice here: Thank you so very much. You provided advice and guidance that allowed my family and me to get the most out of this experience with our sailor. All of us had a wonderful time.

We were extra lucky in that my daughter didn't fly to Pensacola until Sunday morning. She got to spend 13 hours of liberty with us Saturday.

Comment by jeepgirl on October 28, 2013 at 6:02pm: It was great! All the info provided was spot on! Sarges Meet and Greet was fabulous - he recommended sitting on the upper level for a better view of everything - we followed that advice and had the railing and a beam blocking part of our view. I think it would have been better if we had sat in the back rows of the lower level.

We had a wonderful dinner at Lovell's and had a free meal for our sailor and our sailors bunkmate that didnt have any family at PIR.

We were able to get into the airport to hangout with our sailor with no problems, he checked us in at the ticket counter and we breezed through security with him. It was a wonderful day/weekend.

Comment by CatMom509 on October 28, 2013 at 5:55pm: So Friends,

How was it? Was there anything different than what we advised you? We like to be up to date on our info for future PIRs~~

Comment by CatMom509 on October 27, 2013 at 7:18pm: Hi Friends!

     God's voice thunders in marvelous ways;

     He does great things beyond our understanding."

                                                                Job 37:5

Comment by lemonelephant on October 26, 2013 at 4:05pm: There is info on the Division T-shirts and more in Division T-Shirts, Graduation Photos, The Keel, and DVD of PIR if the other link doesn't work for you.