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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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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 Mom&Dad4MattJ on October 2, 2012 at 11:47am: Hi Maureen, Our Son Matt is also on Ship 9, Div 004. where is your son going for A school? Matt is going IT to Florida.

Comment by Brittany on October 2, 2012 at 11:00am: Betsy- I know i may need to get my mailman a gift. lol.

Comment by DebbiL on October 2, 2012 at 10:55am: I find it really strange that I received my form letter on the same day as "the box", but some of you are just getting your letter now. Why the delay on so many of them?

Oh, and regarding the Navy print - my son's writing was a little more legible, but still not what I would call "neat". I think he's going to have to work on that...

Comment by ASailorsGirl on October 2, 2012 at 10:55am: Hi everyone! My fiance is on Ship 14 Div 8. Also I don't think that was his handwriting it was way off. @PaulaMom my fiance didn't write names either just mom, brother, fiance and uncle. Best of luck to everyone, I might be traveling alone from South Florida but it will be worth it :)

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on October 2, 2012 at 10:50am: All of the our poor mail carriers really didn't have a clue that they would need to wear armor while the Navy moms were anxiously awaiting those precious letters from their SR's, lol.

Comment by Brittany on October 2, 2012 at 10:46am: JoJo- I can relate to you with the letter lifting my spirits! I almost tackled the mail man- I gave him a warning for the days to come : ) I am sorry you had to go through your sons 18th Birthday without him. My husbands birthday was September 25, so he missed his birthday as well. But we have to go through this to get to the next stage, and the end result will be well worth it! Hopefully we will get an actual letter from our boys SOON. I just want to hear from them to know they are doing okay! We are all in this together! I am booking my flight by tomorrow : ) Yay!

Comment by Jojo(Rich'smom)S11D005 on October 2, 2012 at 9:51am: Hi Brittany...Im much better now..I was a crazy mess this weekend tho...it was my son's 18th bday and I have never not spent it with him... .BUT I just received my letter yesterday AMAZING how one little envelope could lift my spirits.....so Im mailing all the letters Ive written today..I doubt he'll get to read them all but I'm sending them just in case he finds time. Maybe they do know each other. I cant wait to hear all about his new found friends.

I hope everyone is having a good day!

45 days and COUNTING!! I gotta start working on my travel plans!

Comment by diannep on October 2, 2012 at 9:31am: Good Morning all!

Comment by Brittany on October 2, 2012 at 9:12am: Jojo! Yay! Maybe my husband and your son? Know eachother! How you holding up? 45 more days! Im bookinh my flight today :-)