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This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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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!

Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.

Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak

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

...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.

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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ALUMNI OF PIR 12/21/2012 TG 6 - 11 Divisions (031-038, 803 & 904 -905)

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This Group is for those with sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 12/21/2012.

A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Your current Group "veteran members" are:

diannep

LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons

ellen0502

♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW

Betsy, son on Stennis carrier

Craig

sjtina

Cor

Information PAGES LINK for PIR 12/21/2012

Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 110
Latest Activity: Jul 15, 2024

WELCOME TO PIR 12/21/2012! 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.

CLICK ME 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 your 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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You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 12/21/2012 TG 6 - 11 Divisions (031-038, 803 & 904 -905) to add comments!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on December 21, 2012 at 9:02am: HAPPY PIR DAY!!!

Comment by diannep on December 21, 2012 at 8:34am: Ahhhh....the picture Connie posted....what memories that brings back! It is truly a goosebump moment....where you will totally lose it! I just boo hooed during the entire thing.....tears of happiness. Thanks for posting that, Connie my friend! Good to see you on here!

Ladies, get movin! Hope that all of you are making your way to RTC right now. This is a day that you want to just "soak in" so early is the way to go! Those driving, make sure you have the gate pass/car rental agreement with you. If you don't, park in the train parking lot (paid parking) which is past RTC. It is about a 75 yd walk to RTC....

Remember: If you want to order the PIR DVD and your sailor didn't, head over to the NEX after PIR and order that. It may be a little chaotic in there, but you won't regret getting that. For those who want to do some NEX shopping with more of a selection and not so many people, wait and shop off-base at the Greenbay Rd larger NEX, close to the base.

Now...the most important advice....ENJOY! Hugs and congrats to all of your sailors! HOOYAH!

Comment by southcarolinamom(Nuke MM) on December 21, 2012 at 7:51am: I am not even there and I cant sleep because Im SO EXCITED for all the SAILORS and the moms and family who FINALLY get to see them! Yay!!!!!!! Please post lots and lots and LOTS of pictures everyone! (maybe I will get lucky and see my son in one or more of them lol ) HAVE FUN EVERYONE!!!! AND STAY SAFE IN THAT NASTY WEATHER! HOOYAH!!!!!!Q

Comment by MommaJeri on December 21, 2012 at 7:29am: Connie - thanks for the picture. I am crying with excitement.

deniseMatt'smom - I am just now seeing your message! Thanks so much for the offer. We are taking the shuttle from the hotel. We were at Sarge's M&G last night! So sorry I didn't find you. There were soo many people!!!

3 1/2 hours!! I need more COFFEE! :) :)

Comment by Connie(Memphis Belle) on December 21, 2012 at 1:33am: Hello Mommas, dropping in for the last time. when the doors go up and you can see their feet before they march in....yeah it's ok if you start to cry....many of us did. good luck to all of you MOMS and LOVED ONES of these brand new Sailors!

Comment by deniseMatt'smom on December 21, 2012 at 12:30am: Thank-you Sarge for a great nite and great food !!! Your wife's brownies were a big hit with our table...Your shuttle service is a life saver, Mark is a great guy!! it was soooo nice to meet all the "Moms and loved ones" there!!! I cannot wait 10 1/2 more hrs to celebrate our new sailors !!!!!

Comment by diannep on December 21, 2012 at 12:14am: Get an early start, Ladies, in the morning. With the bad weather and traffic, you will need to be up and rolling early! ENJOY!

Comment by Mommamac MM(CVN77) on December 21, 2012 at 12:11am: It was great finally getting to meet some of the great people that has helped me get through the pastb8 weeks. Sarge is a ANGEL and has been a bleesing. Can't wait to see our sailor in he morning. Hope to see more people to offle.

Comment by southcarolinamom(Nuke MM) on December 20, 2012 at 8:38pm: awww diannep...thanks for posting that. It was so sweet of you! I am hoping that the weather will allow my Uncle to be there for him to take pictures but you never know. GMA asked her son to take a pic of him if he can find him too. But....u are right....I can never have enough pictures of my new sailor! :) so proud!!!!

Comment by GMA of a Sonar Tech on December 20, 2012 at 7:30pm: Congratulations to all of you Mom's....it has been quite an adventure...So sorry that I couldn't be there with my Grandson, to see him change from a recruite to a Sailor but do to flight delay and cancellation of flight I am still in California...Enjoy and I hope that someday we will meet...again, a big thank you to the lovely ladies above for all their assistance...God Bless and Merry Christmas....