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ALUMNI OF PIR 12/11/2015 TG 05 - 12 Divisions (035-044, 905 and 906)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 12/11/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 73
Latest Activity: Dec 1, 2016

WELCOME to PIR 12/11/2015! 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 Beth on October 29, 2015 at 6:40pm: Oh NCNavymom I sure hope not! I would feel terrible! Are our kids in the same ship div? I think they are.

Comment by amanda on October 29, 2015 at 6:25pm: Hope i get my thanks giving form soon!that makes it more real:)

Comment by NCNavymom on October 29, 2015 at 6:23pm: So they can't write until next the first week of November? Ugh. I was hoping for a personal letter with in a few days. At least we know about when to expect something.

Comment by Beth on October 29, 2015 at 5:58pm: Just received the Thanksgiving form from my daughter. She wrote a very small note at the bottom saying write me! Can't send letters for another 10 days but I can receive them! Please! Love you all. Made me want to cry!

Comment by NCNavymom on October 29, 2015 at 5:23pm: Funny thing is he only wears ONE contact. Those are going to be terrible glasses. How would I get his contact to him for PIR?

Comment by diannep on October 29, 2015 at 5:15pm: NCNavyMom: If he had contacts, then he would have been issued glasses. He can have his contacts for PIR though.

Beth: That would be wonderful if you could adopt a sailor on the SD base. When my son was based in VA, a lady I met on this site who lived not too far away adopted my son for Thanksgiving. He really enjoyed that....even drove 2 hrs to get to their house! He had missed Thanksgiving the year before with us (Bootcamp) and was happy to celebrate it with another family. When I found he would once again miss the 3rd one, last minute I flew up there to celebrate with him.

Comment by NCNavymom on October 29, 2015 at 5:07pm: I got the Adopt A Sailor form. He wrote a little note ask if we could bring his gf if we come and said he loves us. Awww

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on October 29, 2015 at 4:46pm: Congratulations on all the calls and on (at least one!) recipient of the Adopt a Sailor form.

I believe you'll be facing (or scanning/emailing) those back for approval?

They way it has worked in the past is that the original is your Gate Pass/document to pick up your Recruit. Once you are in the Visitors Center personnel will collect them from you (maybe check ID?) and call out your Recruit to match you up :-)

The have taken pictures of this joyous event and posted on their FB in the past as well.

There is usually photos and sometimes video on the web of the Recruits that are adopted by the community.

Comment by amanda on October 29, 2015 at 4:32pm: Very happy to report i got a 30 second call today!!!im not even suppose to be on my fone at work.but i have been watching it like a hawk.call came through from illinois.i about died,i got so nervous when i heard my boys voice say hi mom on the other end.i could have cried!he only got a 30sec call because him and 10 others out of 98 did something great.thats all he said about that.he said i can pick him up for thanksgiving.little does he know ive been planning that all week!.and he had me three way his girlfriend!!!!