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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:

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ALUMNI of PIR 11/16/2012 TG 1 — 9 Divisions (001–008 & 901)

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This Group is for those with sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 11/16/2012.

A place to keep up with each other as the journey continues.

Your current Group "veteran members" are:

diannep

LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons

ellen0502

♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW

Betsy, son on Stennis carrier

Craig

Location: Great Lakes IL
Members: 103
Latest Activity: Sep 26, 2017

WELCOME to PIR 11/16/2012

OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance. Please take the timeto read the OPSEC and Community Guidelines. A quick note here: Last Names of Sailors/Recruits are not allowed on this site. If it is in your username you will need to change your username. If yours is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended. First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember 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. 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 11/16/2012 TG 1 — 9 Divisions (001–008 & 901) to add comments!

Comment by diannep on October 7, 2012 at 8:59pm: joshuasmom: Call Sarge about transportation---he has great rates. He is wonderful! Has a MeetandGreet too the night before PIR. Full of info and beloved to the sailors up there.

Sarge 847-212-0246

You can text him or call.

Comment by diannep on October 7, 2012 at 8:58pm: No, JohnsMom. No magazines. Only letters can be mailed!

Comment by JohnsMom SHIP-09 DIV-003 on October 7, 2012 at 8:53pm: Could you send magazines?

Comment by joshuasmom (SHIP 11 / DIV 006) on October 7, 2012 at 6:51pm: Anyone traveling solo to PIR that needs or would like to share accommodations? Trying to save money. Also any ideas how to get to Great Lakes from O'Hare without renting a car?

Comment by diannep on October 7, 2012 at 6:45pm: Just posted a BattleStations discussion above in the forum for your info.

Comment by ellen0502 on October 7, 2012 at 5:50pm: Phone calls are never a guarantee. the usual calls are the "I am here call", about three weeks later the "I am still alive call", and then the "I am a Sailor" call that comes after Battlestations.

Calls that are granted during BC can come on any day at any time. Keep your phones handy at all times. The area code is usually 847 and the caller ID may say gov't call or pay phone.

Calls can start coming in for a division, but you may never get one. This could be because they have duty or calls have just been suspended for a multitude of reasons.

Always look forward to receiving a call, but don't expect one.

Comment by DebbiL on October 7, 2012 at 4:44pm: Questions for the "Veteran Moms" - when do they get to make their first phone call? Will it be on a Sunday?

Comment by HeatherT(09/003) on October 7, 2012 at 3:04pm: Gsdgirl... And thelostairman... I was just talking to my mom about that and how he is probably goin to get a whole bag of mail for himself. GF has sent 4-5 letters my mom has sent 4-5 and I am on #14!! :) I think dad has sent about 6-7 too. So he is goin to be really excited or majorly mad!! Lol:) hope they are having a good Sunday today!!

Comment by countrykris on October 7, 2012 at 12:59pm: “Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?”

Comment by Future Doc's mom 09 001 on October 7, 2012 at 12:16pm: Good morning, I hope everyone is having a great day. I love looking at the clock everyday and seeing the countdown,