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ALUMNI OF PIR 12/13/2013 TG 05 - 8 Divisions (037-042, and 905-906)

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This Group is for those who have SAILORS that graduated 12/13/2013. A place to keep in touch with each other as your SAILORS continue on their journey in the Navy!

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 81
Latest Activity: Dec 18, 2013

WELCOME to PIR 12/13/2013! 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. Edit Edit

CLICK MEforN4M's Community GuidelinesandOPSEC.

~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 bprincessmom on November 17, 2013 at 5:09pm: Amen!!!!

Comment by CatMom509 on November 17, 2013 at 5:07pm: Hello All~

     "Trust in the Lord with all your heart

      and lean not on your own understanding;

      in all your ways acknowlege Him

      and He will make your paths straight."

                                   Proverbs 3:5-6

Comment by diannep on November 17, 2013 at 4:10pm: ellen, if I pay for your plane ticket, can you come down here and do MY Christmas decorating please???? And shopping too????? :-) I haven't even started...I remember when I used to have my shopping completed by Oct ! Those days are gone....sigh...

Comment by munchkinmom on November 17, 2013 at 1:49pm: Thank you diannep, it's good to be back. All travel arrangements have been made. I am so looking forward to seeing my daughter and grandson again. Well I need to go make some money for my trip. Have a great day.

Comment by ellen0502 on November 17, 2013 at 12:31pm: I agree diannep, Thanksgiving seems to get jumped over. I am guilty this year of putting up Christmas decorations early.

Last year I hummed and hawed about decorating because I didn't think my son was going to be home on leave (feeling sorry for myself), and then he walked in the door on Dec 21st as I was putting up the tree.

This year I already put up the trees and finished decorating because he was coming home on leave. Alas...leave cancelled, Operation Damayan has called, but the Christmas decorating is done. :)

Comment by diannep on November 17, 2013 at 8:54am: Love to see "familiar" names on here....welcome back, munchkinmom! I think you are right...Christmas should be in full season when you are up there! Some in our neighborhood already have outside Christmas decorations up....I LOVE Christmas, but I'm thinking we need to get rid of Halloween and substitute Thanksgiving so that Thanksgiving gets is "due recognition" before Christmas preparations start in early November! Seems it just gets lost in the Christmas shuffle!

Good Morning All !

Comment by munchkinmom on November 17, 2013 at 2:36am: Thank you ellen0502, it's so good to have a PIR date again. I am thinking Great Lakes will be looking very festive on the 13th

Comment by ellen0502 on November 17, 2013 at 2:27am: munchkinmom,

Welcome back, and good to see you!!

Glad to hear your daughter has healed and is back in a PIR group.

Comment by diannep on November 16, 2013 at 2:11pm: First pay deposit is usually not until they have been there 3-4 weeks. Then they will come in on the 1st and 15th, unless with Navy Fed in which case they come in a day earlier (earlier than that if the pay date falls on a weekend). As Thewatchgoddess said....a great perk with Navy Fed!

Comment by Thewatchgoddess on November 16, 2013 at 1:14pm: @ Calblaze
They do get paid the 1st and 15th, though it can take awhile to kick in. May have something to do with his bank too. I wouldn't worry much yet. My SR was paid for the first time on the 14th, one of the perks of being a Navy Fed member. He used navy fed before he shipped though, so all they had to do was change him over to active duty.
And oh goodness. Your poor SR! That sounds like a very unpleasant wisdom tooth extraction, especially combined with a URI. Hopefully that clears up soon!