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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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You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 10/25/2013 TG 50 - 11 Divisions (399-408 and 950) to add comments!

Comment by Corfrank on September 30, 2013 at 4:31pm: My son leaves for boot camp Nov. 20 but his buddy is in PIR Oct 25. Four guests per recruit.The buddy has his family of four going.Does anyone know if there are other tickets available? My son would like to go to see his best bud graduate.

Comment by BAMA NAVY MOM on September 30, 2013 at 4:09pm: I have mailed out some stuff to 10 of the girls in 950.....so if your SR said this woman sent me a questionaire and a picture of a stupid silly face.......well that's me.

Comment by ellen0502 on September 30, 2013 at 2:38pm: I'm tellin' ya, he is good at avoiding the camera, and I am getting sharp at finding him! He confirmed this one was him too. LOL

Comment by diannep on September 30, 2013 at 2:22pm: Ok, ellen, I'm sending a personal request to "someone" to PLEASE get a full picture of your son "Waldo" ! As in, Where's Waldo? I actually laugh each time you post a pik of him, with just his partial facial features. He obviously is very good about practicing OPSEC himself! :-)

Comment by ellen0502 on September 30, 2013 at 1:50pm: CatMom, Yes, I am very lucky. The ship photographer is very good at taking pictures of all around the ship, and usually posts 50-100 at a time. Since the ship has both sailors and over 400 marines on board, I have learned to scan over the marines and find the sailors. LOL

He did have some shore time before he caught up with his ship in Australia, but they were pretty limited on where they could go and what they could do at that time. I would think they will be back to Japan sometime soon, but I don't know for sure and he can't tell me., I will continue to stalk. LOL Welcome to OPSEC! :)

Comment by racing girl on September 30, 2013 at 1:46pm: Oh god bless hom.i just wonder if he is with my brother in law nephew.

Comment by CatMom509 on September 30, 2013 at 1:33pm: Greetings!

     "A man's steps are directed by the Lord.

      How can anyone understand his own way?"

                                                 Psalm 20:24

Comment by CatMom509 on September 30, 2013 at 1:33pm: ellen0502,

With all the Sailors on his ship, you are surely blessed that your son shows up at all on the pics!! OOoooo has he gotten any shore liberty while at Japan?? :D

Comment by ellen0502 on September 30, 2013 at 1:26pm: jesika, That picture is of my son, he is stationed on the USS Germantown in Japan. They have been out at sea for the last four months, he has been on the ship since the beginning of August, and I haven't seen him since the beginning of July, or talked to him on the phone since July 26th.

Since communication home is little to none on the ship, I try and catch a glimpse of my son in all the pictures posted from the ship, but he manages to almost avoid the camera most of the time. He has become very good at it.

Here is another, and once again where there is food there is my son. He is the third one in line.

The "stalking" you all are currently doing with the mailman, is just practice for stalking other ways of keeping in touch.

Comment by ellen0502 on September 30, 2013 at 1:10pm: It is official! The RTC has finally updated their website, this TG is allowed 4 guests at PIR!

Divisions 399-408 and 950