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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 KB2OWJ Ship 03 Div 415 on September 29, 2013 at 10:31am: I've got plenty of nature all around me. Love the lightening bugs. Hate the mosquitos. I have ground hogs, squirrels, chipmunks, and racoons in my back yard. Every now and again some deer or a black bear walk through leaving me poop bombs in my yard. The occasional snakes. Oh and wait.. the bat that got in my house the other week. Two things I can't stand.. snakes and bats. And one last thing... the wack job neighbors of the human kind ...LOL

Comment by 503 808 on September 29, 2013 at 10:24am: KatXmom ship09div418PIR11/01/13 Only people from Jersey and Oregon would understand the pumping of your own gas. LOL My daughter went to California and waited to get gas then she realized she had to pump it herself and had no idea how to do it.

Whenever I feel like I need to talk to my son. I just pretend that I am hearing him say these words and it sure seems to help .

Comment by KatXmom ship09div418PIR11/01/13 on September 29, 2013 at 10:20am: We have outdoor flying roaches and these annoying love bugs. I'm still adjusting to the Nature. Lol and yes I pump my own gas... lol

Comment by KB2OWJ Ship 03 Div 415 on September 29, 2013 at 10:18am: Hmm don't know what happened to my response to Sea turtle... Its like it disappeared. But I wish you were at the same Residence Inn.. would have liked to see your dog. Your SR will truly surprised. Unfortunately I have to leave mine back in Jersey.

Comment by KB2OWJ Ship 03 Div 415 on September 29, 2013 at 10:16am: OMG.... I'm laughing so hard. Oh wait ..what are those big cockroaches called.. Palmetto Bugs. My mom lived in Florida for a while and had some stories about bugs and other creatures. Now she's in Texas and you know what they say about Texas....everything is bigger in Texas ..LOL. So do you pump your own gas now? LOL

Comment by KatXmom ship09div418PIR11/01/13 on September 29, 2013 at 10:10am: Hahaha sink holes, gators, snakes, spiders, tree frogs, lynx, sand fleas, omg the list goes on and on.... The first week I moved here, a little frog got in my car, I saw it as I was driving. Pulled over as if I saw an Ax murderer. Flung open my door and ran out the car screaming. Aa passerby stopped and asked me what was wrong. When I told him there was a little frog in my car he said; really? My response was, I'm from Jersey man.... Lol he got the frog out and asked me if I needed help pumping my gas. ...Lol...

Comment by KB2OWJ Ship 03 Div 415 on September 29, 2013 at 10:03am: That is too cute 503 808. Like a said heart breaker.

Comment by KB2OWJ Ship 03 Div 415 on September 29, 2013 at 10:02am: YOU GO GIRL!!! As they say KatXmom.... you can take the girl out of Jersey, but you can't take the Jersey out of the girl !!! LOL (Better watch out for those sink holes in FL) PS.. I too was clinging to the phone hoping for a call. Maybe today.

Comment by KatXmom ship09div418PIR11/01/13 on September 29, 2013 at 9:54am: @ KB2OWJ... I am a Jersey girl too, transplanted in Florida now.. LOL Moved out here 2 years ago for my son to attend University of Central Florida. I ended up buying a beautiful home and now am a Floridian, (great for cruise discounts LOL) however I will always be a FIST PUMPING JERSEY Girl... LOL

Comment by KB2OWJ Ship 03 Div 415 on September 29, 2013 at 9:54am: KatXMom and Sea turtle, ..emily ship 09 is right. Don't be so hard on yourself. All we can do is lay a good foundation and support them in their decisions. My great-grandfather, grandfather, and father were all Navy. I wish my dad was still alive and could have talked him too. He passed a year before my son was born.

But here is my story and why it took me a little time to come around and be supportive.

My husband was married before and his former brother in law was a marine. He always wanted to be a marine and was on his reenlistment years. Unfortunately he was killed during the first Gulf War in 1991. He was 25yrs old and left behind wife and 18month old son. This hit close to home for both of us. I knew him since I was 6. My son grew up hearing of this story. My son also was an avid Military Channel watcher. Over the years, especially teenage ones, he started talking the military as a future. I shut down every time he brought it up. Eventually the lines of communication had to be open. His father and I spoke with him and told him to do some research and then decide which branch, but he knew he couldn't do marines because it would crush us. He did his due diligence and we also put him in touch with a good friend that was 6 ft 5 in and served in the Navy on a sub. They had a heart to heart. None of us sugar coated anything. He then made his decision to join the Navy. His father and are VERY PROUD and supportive of him. All we can do as parents is give them a good foundation, be supportive, and give them wings. In the end everything will be and work out fine for our boys.