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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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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 12/31/2015 TG 08- 10 Divisions (045-052, and 907-908)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 12/31/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 72
Latest Activity: Dec 31, 2018

WELCOME to PIR 12/31/2015! 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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You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 12/31/2015 TG 08- 10 Divisions (045-052, and 907-908) to add comments!

Comment by diannep on November 15, 2015 at 8:56am: Another reminder that you need to book Navy Lodge in your SR's name if you do not have military ID.

Comment by diannep on November 15, 2015 at 8:55am: Leslie: True....nothing can be brought back to RTC after PIR. The only ones allowed to have cell phones are the ones who have graduated but are on HOLD at RTC for a while. You need to give them these personal items at the airport----personal items need to be able to fit into their Navy luggage....seabag (which is packed pretty full), garment bag (uniforms) and Navy backpack. You can ship the rest of the items to them at A School.. GL A School students may take personal items back to that base once they have moved over there (shortly after PIR is over) and return from Liberty.

Good Morning!

Comment by dgharmony64 on November 15, 2015 at 12:42am: Just made reservations at Navy Lodge. There's not very many rooms available. Call 847 689-1485 asap if want rooms at Navy Lodge.

Comment by Leslie on November 15, 2015 at 12:33am: I've heard that we cannot give our SRs back their cell phones until they are at the airport waiting to fly out for A School (or have transferred to their A School in Great Lakes). No cell phones are allowed on RTC after PIR. Can anyone confirm if this is true and if so, is there any other option for ensuring our new sailors have cell phone in hand before transferring? Given that they may fly out of different airports, nearly an hour away from RTC, it could be very difficult for some families to accomplish.

Comment by diannep on November 14, 2015 at 11:47pm: You can try, Beachmom, but they may not be able to tell you for sure.

Comment by Beachmomblue on November 14, 2015 at 11:31pm: diannep, i read your post about January 1. I'm going to call the public affairs office to see if they will have that day as a holiday and not flight out.

Comment by CatMom509 on November 14, 2015 at 7:05pm: Hi Friends!

     "We who have fled to Him for refuge can take

      new courage, for we can hold on to His Promise

      with confidence."

                                                          Hebrews 6:18

Comment by CatMom509 on November 14, 2015 at 6:55pm: Hi!

Welcome to Navy for Moms!!

My Sailor Daughter's PIR was March 2013--can't believe how fast time has flown!. She is an IT3 (Information Systems Technician, Petty Officer Third Class). 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 Tatka on November 14, 2015 at 6:45pm: Than you diannep !

Comment by diannep on November 14, 2015 at 5:11pm: jujojape: They will fly from either OHare or Midway. Don't think they are flying from Milwaukee yet. They will not know which one until right before PIR so if you are trying to fly into the same airport, you will just have to guess!