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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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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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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 11/22/2013 TG 002 - 12 Divisions (011-020, 802 and 902)

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This Group is for those who have SAILORS that graduated 11/22/2013. A place to keep in touch with each other as your SAILORS continue on their journey in the Navy!

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 131
Latest Activity: Sep 13, 2017

WELCOME to PIR 11/22/2013! 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.

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forN4M'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 Shesh on October 1, 2013 at 10:23am: 1proudnavymom...our sons are in the same ship/div! You're the first one I've found.

We'll have to compare notes.

I am so grateful for you moms who have stayed on this site to help us newbies. I hope to do the same. We get so caught up in our own SR's journey. I read every post and usually learn something new each time. Thank you veteran ladies !

Comment by scootersmom94 on October 1, 2013 at 10:12am: And as I read this I am wondering .....are cards not allowed? Does it have to be letters only??

Comment by scootersmom94 on October 1, 2013 at 9:58am: Good morning, I think/hope this is the right group. My son shipped out 9/25 for bc. Ship 14 Div 20. Still waiting for my box and letter. Hoping this week at least for the box. I want to say a BIG THANKS to N4M and all the sub groups I have found so much helpful information.

Comment by ellen0502 on October 1, 2013 at 1:25am: Business or standard envelope is fine. The extra postage isn't an issue, but it might draw attention to the letter, and your SR may have to open it in front of the RDC.

Write two short letters in a day and send them, the more mail the better!!

Good rule of thumb for mailing, if it looks and feel like a letter, it probably is a letter. If it looks like a letter and feels like a Q-Tip it's probably is a Q-tip.

Comment by JB'sProudMom on September 30, 2013 at 11:57pm: Hi everyone, I was wondering about letter writing, I read the info on letter writing and mailing but I wasn't clear on if there is an exact size on envelope to use . Business? or the smaller one. Is the smaller one standard size? Also, using yellow legal pad, wondering how much I can fit without extra postage which is something you do not want to do as I read it. Any help? Thanks

Comment by waukeemomma on September 30, 2013 at 11:38pm: Got my form letter today and a note from Fed-Ex. Will get the box tomorrow. Ship 12 and Div 015

Comment by CatMom509 on September 30, 2013 at 11:36pm: Greetings!

     "A man's steps are directed by the Lord.

      How can anyone understand his own way?"

                                                 Psalm 20:24

Comment by CatMom509 on September 30, 2013 at 11:34pm: Hi!

Welcome to Navy for Moms!!

My Sailor Daughter's PIR was just this March 2013. She is an IT (Information Systems Technician) stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. I primarily provide scriptural encouragement for the PIR groups, Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) and a few of the other groups that I am a member of. I'll also help out with anything that I am familiar with--all kinds of tidbits I learned during my daughter's Boot Camp experience~~ This site really made the time go much faster. I'm so thankful that my Sailor daughter sent me the link for this awesome group of friends when she enlisted!! Count 9 Fridays and before you know it, you'll be seeing your baby again at PIR!! Here we go!!!

Comment by diannep on September 30, 2013 at 10:51pm: squid: There is lots of yelling going on when they arrive at bootcamp and it can be quite overwhelming. The first few weeks are a little tough with all going on, but it gets better! Can be heartbreaking to get the homesick/sad letters and phone calls from some of them at the beginning of bootcamp, but just know that it will get better as they are being groomed to becoming sailors!

Comment by diannep on September 30, 2013 at 10:49pm: Wow, so great to see that so many have joined this group already! Welcome! I am one of the N4Moms veterans like ellen, on here to help you all get through this. Welcome to bootcamp! My son went there in 2009 and is now working on his Bachelors degree, full-time, courtesy of the GI Bill since he was honorably discharged. I have been helping on here since he graduated bootcamp...just can't stay away. Love helping! Be sure to check the info in the PAGES section, above and to the right, under the MEMBERS PHOTO BOX. Ask any and all questions you have right here! Our team of N4Moms veterans will try to answer them!