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ALUMNI OF PIR 11/20/2015 TG 02 9 Divisions (011-018, and 902)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 11/20/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 50
Latest Activity: Dec 1, 2016

WELCOME to PIR 11/20/2015! 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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N4M'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 diannep on October 25, 2015 at 1:57pm: It is probably best to take a limited amount of personal items to PIR for your new sailors who are flying out. They will need to fit these items into their Navy existing luggage....backpack, seabag, and garment bag (uniforms). So take extras to your sailors and let them pick what they want to take in your hotel room after PIR---you can deliver these to them at the airport....and you can ship the rest of the items later to A School.

For those with sailors staying in GL for A School, you can bring all of the items and they can take them to the A School base when returning from Liberty.

Comment by Alex'sMom on October 25, 2015 at 1:01pm: Okay, so if they are issued a military bag to place all their belongings in after basic to take to A school is this bag checked in or a carry on? My concern is that my son wants a particular brand of deodorant and hair products. If its a carry on I will have a liquid (gel) restriction but if its check on I can stock him up. Does anyone know for sure?

Comment by TXSnowWhite on October 25, 2015 at 11:43am: Didn't realize we where gonna have to bring a bunch of extra stuff with us for our recruit, can that stuff just be mailed to them? If not we might have to pack lighter for ourselves in order to fit everything. My recruit hadn't told us anything about bring her things with us.

Comment by plantlady on October 25, 2015 at 10:35am: Good Morning Everyone,

I received a letter with a list of her belongings which my recruit wants us to bring her or PIR...I assume there are no restrictions on what can be brought to "A" school? Although most of the list consists of normal belongings...clothes, electronics, etc. she did ask for her flippers - obviously recreational in nature. Any thoughts from you "A" school veteran moms.

Comment by diannep on October 25, 2015 at 8:07am: Good Morning!

Comment by diannep on October 24, 2015 at 8:12pm: TXSnowWhite: Once they phase up enough to leave A School base, that will happen! Takes a while to phase up for overnight stays, but not long to phase up to leave the base until return at night. Before she phases up completely though, she can see if she can have on-base visitors.

Comment by TXSnowWhite on October 24, 2015 at 7:53pm: Yes he did say they had a meet and greet the night before. Just kinda bummed out now, was hoping we could see some of the Chicago landmarks together as a family. Guess Hubby and I will just be going alone. But I'm hoping she will have some free time or Liberty during A school, my parents live near Orlando and said they would drive up to Pensacola to visit her, if she got a decent amount of free time.

Comment by diannep on October 24, 2015 at 7:25pm: TXSnowWhite: Oh, changed they have! BiG TIME! We hear that all of the time from parents who went to Bootcamp themselves and see how different things are now. As a matter of fact, the Navy itself is very different now....tougher to get in, tougher to promote and stay in....just tough! I bet when your husband was there, they also use to have Family Night too, right? Where the night before PIR, the families AND the sailors got together? That was dropped a long time ago also. Now the MeetandGreet is handled by Sarge who is not connected to the Navy (but retired military)....and it only involves the families/friends of the graduating sailors.

Comment by TXSnowWhite on October 24, 2015 at 7:20pm: Was just hoping we would have a full day with her on Saturday : ( , we probably could have had our flight home on Sunday then instead of Monday. We where going off of how Hubby was remembering boot camp but that was over 20 years ago, looks like things have changed.

Comment by CatMom509 on October 24, 2015 at 6:26pm: TXSnowWhite,

Yep, ALL the new Sailors get liberty!! Those flying out will have Friday right after the PIR at 10:30 am to be with you until the evening. They will tell you when they need to be back -- on time!!

Then they are bussed to the airports about 12:30 am and on. You can meet them at the airports -- bring your id to give them their stuff I set forth below, especially their cell phones!!