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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!

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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

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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RTC Graduation

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

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Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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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 22, 2015 at 8:53am: Photos for this PIR group should be happening next week, I believe.

Comment by Joeysmom on October 22, 2015 at 8:51am: Goodmorning... Navy moms!!

Comment by diannep on October 22, 2015 at 8:49am: Good Morning!

Comment by plantlady on October 22, 2015 at 7:53am: Good Morning to everyone as well

I phoned the Navy Exchange Photo Lab yesterday and they emailed me their "Initial Order Form for Photo Packages & Frames". Although I have continued to forget bringing this topic up with my recruit during phone calls, I would like to find out if she placed an order. Does anyone know when or if our PIR group has placed their photo order? Perhaps someone else has remembered and already addressed this with their recruit.

WOW are these photos costly... I better start saving!

Comment by HannahLashai on October 22, 2015 at 6:22am: Good Morning Everyone!(: We Are Halfway Through! 29 days Till PIR! It May Seem Like Forever Away,But We Have Already Made It Through Half The Battle!

Comment by CatMom509 on October 22, 2015 at 2:52am: Hello All!

     "The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed,

       a stronghold in times of trouble. Those

       who know Your name trust in You,

       for You, Lord, have never forsaken

       those who seek You."

                                                Psalm 9:9-10

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on October 21, 2015 at 3:46pm: Here is the link to RTC website that explains all the RPO positions (Recruit Petty Officers). There is a graph in there somewhere as well showing the hierarchy:

Recruit Petty Officers

These positions are just for the duration of Boot Camp.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on October 21, 2015 at 3:44pm

Austin'smom - ARPOC (RPOC) = RCPO which is Recruit Chief Petty Officer. This is the Recruit who is directly under the RDC's.

Recruit Chief Petty Officer (RCPO)

The RCPO is the primary recruit assistant to RDCs and is responsible for:

Maintaining good order, discipline, and security within the division at all times.
Ensuring compliance with standing orders and regulations.
Assisting RDCs with implementation of schedules.
Reporting any abnormal condition to RDCs, including violations of good order, discipline and security, when RDCs are not present.

Comment by Bikerchica75 on October 21, 2015 at 2:15pm: Booked our flight and the navy lodge yesterday. We are flying in on Thursday and was wondering about the meet and greet. What time and where? How do we get information on it ?

Comment by diannep on October 21, 2015 at 9:50am: myhope> On the sending the paracord, if he asked for it, hopefully he cleared it with his RDCs. You can write him and ask him if he did, but that would delay him getting it for alot longer. Sooo....its up to you, but you may want to go ahead and send it. You can label the outside with what it is.

Good Morning!