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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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PIR 12/3/10

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******HI, I am Sherri, and am now the administrator of this group, Sherri(ship9,div10) if anyone needs to reach me, please find my picture icon/name in the posts and click on it to contact me.******** Graduation 12/3/10

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Comment by dalton'smom(ship009 Div 011) on October 12, 2010 at 7:30pm: Well...got the letter! My son is on ship 009 division 011. Anyone else??? His PIR is 12/3/ So, looks like I found the right place!

Comment by Sunny-Meg's Mom- Ship 09 Div 013 on October 12, 2010 at 4:16pm: Yeah, I'm wondering about 12/3 now too. We'll just have to hurry up and wait to find out! I'm on the CHAT tab - I want to get your sons last name and give you hers so that they can look for each other! I know there isn't a lot of contact allowed between boys and girls but it would be cool for them to at least look for each other anyway!

Comment by Sunny-Meg's Mom- Ship 09 Div 013 on October 12, 2010 at 4:09pm: Anyone else in Ship 9 Div 013 ?! Please add a post to the Ship 9 Div 013 discussion so that we can easily keep track of our kids together!

http://navyformoms.ning.com/group/pir12310/forum/topics/anyone-else...

Comment by Sunny-Meg's Mom- Ship 09 Div 013 on October 12, 2010 at 4:06pm: Thanks QT4JLM! Got word from my hubby that our box arrived today too! I have to work late tonight as well but can't wait to get home and open my box and let or Puppy Pie (dog) and our Goober (cat) sniff it and lay on it etc.! Heck....I might crawl inside that box too LOL!

Comment by TammyCorpmanmom on October 12, 2010 at 3:07pm: We got a letter from courtland today. He is doing good and he was sorry for not calling said there was alot of poeple trying to call at once..his PIR is 12-03-2010.I am so happy to hear something from him..

Comment by Sunny-Meg's Mom- Ship 09 Div 013 on October 12, 2010 at 2:28pm: Got a call from Meaghan today :( she sounded so sad and very emotional when she heard my voice. She left on 10/6, and is Ship 9 Div 013 - Her division is still on P-Days and they haven't started Training days yet. She had a nose bleed that wouldn't stop yesteray and ended up in their version of the ER, I think she stayed there overnight because when she called me today she was getting ready to go back to her Ship. It was so hard to hear her voice and she seemed so down. I think they felt sorry for her and allowed her to call home. I just reassured her that it would get better; I promise.......then I bawled my eyes out when I hung up. I finally have an address today to send my letters to, but still no box :( - I'm a wreck and almost wish I hadn't heard from her because now it's so much harder knowing she's not in a good place (mentally) yet

Comment by bubbymom (Nadine) ship 09 div 08 on October 12, 2010 at 2:21pm: Thanks Dalton's mom! I've had a lot of experience with obession....we've been crazily obsessed over our NON-WINNING SAINTS for years..and now we are Superbowl Champs...so my lesson learned is never give up, find out all you can, and as long as nobody dies...my obession is HEALTY...I'm okay, youre okay...:) Thanks for all you wonderful moms...I'm so enjoying this and looking forward to 12/3 and meeting everyone one of you.

Comment by dillndrewsmom on October 12, 2010 at 2:11pm: Hi ladies !! I just learned my son is also ship 9 div 009 !! I have not received the form letter yet .. PIR 12/3 ???

Comment by dalton'smom(ship009 Div 011) on October 12, 2010 at 1:59pm: What an uplifting post Lynn..thank you!

Comment by Lynne on October 12, 2010 at 1:36pm: Welcome to Bootcamp for Moms, Fiancees, Wives, Girlfriends and other family members! From the halls of the 11/5/2010 PIR group we say God bless each of you as you begin this journey. I remember well when our group started to form and the days seemed long and nights longer. The tears flowed easily and for seemingly no reason. I wondered if everyone smelled their recruit's clothes when the kid in the box came, or if they read the four lines on the form letter over and over till they had it memorized, if they watched by the window for the mailman even though they had been coming at the same time every day for fifteen years! I was sure by the time the first letter arrived I would have an ulcer and when a division got a phone call that formed after my sons' I was frustrated with the "unfairness" of it all. Mom boot camp was and is tough! However, in my son's last letter he said I am starting to feel like a sailor and of course i cried again. Why is this important, because you too will make it through. It will be crazy, it will frustrating, fear provoking, and quite frankly hell at times, but there will be funny moments like when a g/f wrote her recruit said one of the guys had passed out in the shower and had to be taken to the ER and then in the same day another was sleep walking an trying to put pillows in the oven. God bless her the mothers erupted because each was sure it was her son in the hospital and/or her son sleepwalking or worse their son's who would from smoke inhalation from burning pillows. Guess what everyone survived!!
If I could give each of you one piece of advice it would be this...every recruit screws up in boot camp. In the first few weeks your recruits will likely vent to you about "other" recruits who can't get it together and they got a "beating" (you probably already know this is intensive physical training) for it. It probably was your child and it probably wasn't. They all make mistakes, they all get screamed at. So relax, your recruit is no different than anyone else. What we have found the funniest in our group is that as mother we all assumed our child was the "troublemaker".
So good luck, God bless, write your recruits every day, get those letters in the mail, keep them positive, they don't need any bad news!!