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ALUMNI OF PIR 11/08/2013 TG 52 - 11 Divisions (421-430, and 952)

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This Group is for those who have SAILORS that graduated 11/08/2013. A place to keep in touch with each other as your SAILORS continue on their Navy journey!

Location: Great lakes, IL
Members: 101
Latest Activity: Feb 27, 2014

WELCOME to PIR 11/08/2013! 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.

CLICK MEforN4M's Community GuidelinesandOPSEC.

~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 GGCmom on September 23, 2013 at 9:29pm: I got an "official" call from my SR today!!! His rating is intelligence, so he called to get more information for his security clearance. We were able to talk for about 15 minutes. I held it together while we were on the phone, and I fell to pieces and cried like a baby when we got off. It was so good tomhear his voice. He sounded really good and so much older! He said its going well, but is much harder than he thought it would be!

Comment by CatMom509 on September 23, 2013 at 9:15pm: Friends,

Also want to let you know that you can put your SR's cell phone on Military Suspension for the 2 months that he/she wiil be in Boot Camp. Just contact your cell phone carrier after your SR has made his/her "I'm Here" call and the phone is on its way back to you in The Box or any time after you get it back. You can do this for free and it will save on the monthly charges on that phone. You can re-activate it for the day before PIR. I was able to easily re-activate my daughter's cell phone online at Verizon Wireless.

Comment by bklyndgirl on September 23, 2013 at 9:12pm: Does anyone know a link for reasonable airfare I have to. Pay for 3 people

Comment by CatMom509 on September 23, 2013 at 4:54pm: Good Day, Friends~~

    "If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength

     God provides, so that in all things God may be praised

     through Jesus Christ."

                                                                   I Peter 4:16

Comment by JKRMommy on September 23, 2013 at 4:54pm: I see the next TG mom posting starting with div 001! I hope that means we are under the 12 div number so that would make 4 guests at PIR!

Comment by ellen0502 on September 23, 2013 at 3:16pm: Grayce, Lets start at the beginning. :) Your son is going to school in Pensacola for what rating? That school would be his A School.

Comment by diannep on September 23, 2013 at 3:13pm: "A School" is the schooling to learn their actual "job" in the Navy. Some "jobs" require C School after A School. He should find this out when in bootcamp.

Comment by Grayce on September 23, 2013 at 3:07pm: Maybe I'm more lost than I thought...He's only ever mentioned going to school in Pens FL after BC. Let's go back to "basic". What's the "A" school?

Comment by diannep on September 23, 2013 at 2:48pm: Torie: Try posting your question on the Ship 5 separation group and see if anyone on there can tell you that. I don't know if anyone here would know that.

Here's the link:

http://www.navyformoms.com/group/ship17moms

Sure hope it works out for him to stay in and become a sailor!

Comment by diannep on September 23, 2013 at 11:13am: Grayce: Not sure what you mean about after A School? Does your sailor go to C School or just A School? If just A School, your sailor will receive verbal, then written orders during/after A School....which will tell duty station. They get to have Leave between School and reporting to duty station usually....and if they work with their recruiter during some of those days, those days won't count against their Leave days (RAP). They have to set that up ahead of time with their recruiter.