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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!

Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!

Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.

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.

OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

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."

Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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ALUMNI OF PIR 11/01/2013 TG 51 - 13 Divisions (409-420 and 951)

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This Group is for those who have SAILORS that graduated 11/01/2013. A place to keep in touch with each other as your SAILORS continue on their Navy journey!

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 106
Latest Activity: Dec 22, 2013

WELCOME to PIR 11/01/2013! 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 Luvsbichons Frank's mom on September 21, 2013 at 1:37pm: MommyLisa yes you can send pictures during bc!

Comment by Luvsbichons Frank's mom on September 21, 2013 at 1:33pm: KEB3 this is exactly what my son and I talked about before he left. I am so glad you wrote this....have a good weekend all!

Comment by MommyLisa Ship 02 Div 951 on September 21, 2013 at 11:44am: Can I send pictures to my daughter? I think I read somewhere that I could, but dont want to gether in trouble if I did.

Comment by Smile09 AD/HM Mom on September 21, 2013 at 10:40am: Keb, Your husband is a very blessed man! You will be an excellent Navy wife. Thank you for sharing that from a wife's perspective.

Comment by Dmaeship12div410 on September 21, 2013 at 10:15am: I'm so glad to know I'm not the only emotional mother. My family think I shouldn't be that way cause my SR is doing okay and to think of how proud of him I am. I am VERY PROUD of him but I think about him every second of the day wondering what he's doing.I have a sister that had her youngest son go to the Army. He wasn't there very long he got a medical discharge cause he messed up his knee. So she's the only one that really know how I feel. He's my baby. He turned 19 today at 6:09 am.

Comment by diannep on September 21, 2013 at 10:09am: Very well-said, KEB! Thanks for sharing this with everyone!

Good Morning All ! Have a great weekend!

Comment by KEB on September 21, 2013 at 9:32am: My mom had 2 of her 3 sons join the Navy (Within the last 10 years). There were some tearful goodbyes but afterwards she was all smiles, all of the time. There was no deep sadness looming in her heart. Why? Because they were grown up now, on their own. They had left the home, which was what they had been raised to do from birth. My mom felt her job was accomplished when she waved goodbye. She knew she'd see them again but that they were where they were supposed to be, outside of the home. Grown ups. That made her and my father proud. All of my siblings (5 of us) are married with kids, on their own and independent living happy lives. It's beautiful when we all get together back at our parents house for Holidays.

I hope these words encourage some of you who feel a void with your daughter/son not being around. He's where he's supposed to be now. You've done your job. He's not supposed to come back home (other than for visits). Rejoice! Be proud and smile.

For wives it tends to be different. My husband is graduating with all of you. He's not here and THIS is where he's supposed to live. This is where he is to spend the rest of his days, with me. For you wives out there, I hope you are encouraged that your husband will stand taller, feel prouder and have more direction in his life because of doing this. You will be better provided for with him in the Navy. He's coming home to you soon enough (or your going to live by him! :) ) and things will be as they are supposed to be. The missing part gets better and your love does grow stronger. It is a sacrifice and most civilian wives wont ever understand. We are Navy wives and we have to be strong for our husbands. They have to be assured that we're standing right next to them, securing the home front and keeping our home ship afloat. I can't wait for my daughter and I to see my husband in a few weeks. It'll be wonderful. Until then, I can close my eyes and night and rest in the fact that he's doing everything he can to make it and pass through boot camp in order to become a proud Sailor in everyone's eyes and come home to us.

Comment by KEB on September 21, 2013 at 9:12am: I like what you said Smile09Ship9Div418! I agree!

Comment by CatMom509 on September 21, 2013 at 4:53am: Here's Rear Admiral Robin Braun's Navy for Moms' video again:

http://navyformoms.ning.com/video/welcome-to-the-navy

Comment by CatMom509 on September 21, 2013 at 4:45am: diannep,

WOW!! Rear Admiral Robin Braun put together a great video talking about how Navy for Moms got started and I like how she defines a whole bunch of terms that our sons and daughters used when they enlisted. Everyone should watch this gem of a video!!