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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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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
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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
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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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ALUMNI OF PIR 11/07/2014 TG 52 - 11 Divisions (353-362 and 952)
Information
This group is for those who have loved ones that graduated from boot camp on November 7, 2014. A place to keep in touch with each other as the sailors continue their Navy journey.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 72
Latest Activity: Nov 12, 2014
WELCOME to PIR 11/07/2014! 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.
~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"
Discussion Forum
Ship 03 (USS Hopper) Divisions 357 and 358 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by shadow1696 Nov 4, 2014. 13 Replies 1 Like
357...Sailors!
Started by BearsMom aka Amber. Last reply by BearsMom aka Amber Nov 4, 2014. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Baskets for Meet & Greet 11/6/14
Started by Christie. Last reply by jurisprude Nov 3, 2014. 22 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 12 (USS Triton) Divisions 361 and 362 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by brunil Nov 1, 2014. 28 Replies 2 Likes
Ship 11 (USS Kearsarge) Divisons 355 and 356 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by AMIGIRL Nov 1, 2014. 25 Replies 5 Likes
He's a Sailor!!
Started by sms9296. Last reply by 2nd TimeNavyMom Oct 31, 2014. 7 Replies 2 Likes
^^^^^BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST ! ^^^^^
Started by diannep. Last reply by 2nd TimeNavyMom Oct 31, 2014. 11 Replies 0 Likes
Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 353 and 354 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by Sandy W Oct 30, 2014. 39 Replies 2 Likes
PERTINENT PIR TIPS!
Started by CatMom509. Last reply by CatMom509 Oct 17, 2014. 6 Replies 2 Likes
Ship 13 (USS Marvin Shields) Division 359 and 360 (Brother Divisions)
Started by ellen0502. Last reply by D's Mom-Lori PIR10/30/09 Oct 13, 2014. 84 Replies 3 Likes
Comment Wall
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Comment by CatMom509 on September 20, 2014 at 2:30am
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beckyteacher,
Your SR can still call during the week for security info (no chit chat) and RDCs have been known to schedule calls during the week too. Just have to be ready and available when you have a loved one in Boot Camp!
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JaMi.H,
Yep! Don't want any of you to miss them because you weren't expecting them. It's happened to alot of groups if I don't put this little blurb to look out for phone calls already...
I'm a momma to 4 kitties myself and one of them--Roman--looks like your SR's kitty. Roman has green eyes. Then we have Genesis, Malachi, and Pookie!
Oh, she has A school at Great Lakes? That will be a long wait. She'll get a little time, maybe 30 minutes with you after PIR, then off to change barracks and many times she is not ready to be picked up till 3:00 pm or after. So you would be waiting from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm/4:00 pm. Some families just return to their hotel using the shuttle, then come back with their rental car to pick up their Sailor. Lucky you, you will get all day Saturday and Sunday with her too!! What a blessing!!
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Comment by ellen0502 on September 20, 2014 at 1:44am
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beckyrteacher, You can stay at the Navy Lodge. Call the hotel directly to make the reservation, and be sure to tell them you are coming for PIR.
They will ask for your recruits name, and rate. No problem giving them the info they ask for. :)
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Comment by beckyrteacher on September 20, 2014 at 12:27am
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I would love a phone call! I am a teacher so I am totally afraid he will call during the week...
But I sure would love a call!
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Comment by JaMi.H on September 20, 2014 at 12:25am
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Phone calls already, Cat? I thought it would be 3 weeks before the first call. Not that I'm complaining. :)
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Thanks Cat. This is my SR's cat. I just know that my SR has to check in with A school before liberty so we might have to wait a while.
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Hey everyone, I want to give you a "HEADS UP" to be prepared to receive calls from your SRs this weekend! The call will show up as "847", "Pay Phone", or "Government" or anything else that may be unfamiliar. If it is a sales call, just politely tell them "No, thank you."
During this time in Boot Camp, please keep your cell phones charged, ready, and with you all the time---upstairs, downstairs, out in the backyard, in the bathroom, out to get the mail, of course, out on errands. If you are going to a loud restaurant or a movie theater, remember to put it on "vibrate" and put in your pocket or some place you can feel it. They can call during the week or weekend, so just be prepared: 6:00 am - 6:00 pm (West Coast); 8:00 am - 8:00 pm (Great Lakes time); 9:00 am - 9:00 pm (East Coast).
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JaMi.H,
You can hang around Recruit Training Command (RTC) visiting the Photo Lab or the NEX. Alot of the Sailors go back to their barracks to get their wallets. All the shuttles wait in the lot to the right of the NEX. I liked the convenience of taking Sarge's shuttle to and from the PIR. I left my rental car at the hotel. I knew my Sailor daughter would appreciate freshening up and relaxing just a little in our hotel room before we headed out to get something to eat~~
There is also a larger NEX nearby offbase with more selection. I will post the address and all when the Discusson Forum is up in the next few weeks~~
Cute kitty!!
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Does anyone know if the hotel shuttles leave right after PIR, or do you have time to hang out and wait for your SR? or is it better to get the parking pass and drive on yourself?
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Comment by diannep on September 19, 2014 at 11:39pm
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Christie: There are actually 12 divisions on a ship, not all in the same PIR group.
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