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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
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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.
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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 Feb. 11, 2011
Members: 172
Latest Activity: Nov 11, 2015
Discussion Forum
Ribbons - PIR 2-11-11
Started by aprul(ship11,div63). Last reply by J-04/128 Feb 26, 2014. 19 Replies 0 Likes
Hey PIR 2-11-11,I am making ribbons for anyone who wants them. Some of you have requested information from me and I have tried to email or message each of you personally. You can send supplies or some of the ladies are sending money orders. The…Continue
Nuke A School FAQ
Started by NF Mom. Last reply by SailingHi Ship 9 Div 071 Feb 25, 2011. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Nuke A School FAQ click the Above LinkContinue
who has a Sailor staying in great lakes for A-school???
Started by Mrs Eubank. Last reply by Mrs Eubank Feb 19, 2011. 9 Replies 0 Likes
my sailor is staying in great lakes for AECF and his rate is ET. anyone out there with that or just in great lakes????????
*******BattleStations********
Started by diannep. Last reply by vydeoynkhorne Feb 16, 2011. 150 Replies 0 Likes
This is the final test for your recruits. When they pass this, they are sailors and trade in their recruit cap for their sailor cap in a capping ceremony afterwards. The ship they do this on was designed by Disney, so it is very realistic. During…Continue
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Comment by my3sons on December 30, 2010 at 10:27pm
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So happy I received 2 letters yesterday! My son sounded really good, but misses home. He still had not received my letters yet, so hopefully they will start rolling in soon. I am getting so anxious for 2/11/11!!
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Comment by DorriO on December 30, 2010 at 9:27pm
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Lexsmom and himmie - amen! Definitely a God wooing with the rock!!
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Comment by Lexsmom on December 30, 2010 at 9:20pm
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himmie- Now look what you have done! Had to go get toilet paper cause I used up the last of the kleenex's after I just read your post. Your daughter is a sweetheart. And you tell her that God did put that rock there for her to find for her brother and everything happens for a reason, and it was meant to be.
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Comment by THERESASUBMOMGROTON on December 30, 2010 at 9:15pm
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also he said he just recieved all my letters at once 16 of them i write everyday. he said it took him an hour to read them all but was so thankfull for them. i dont know why he didnt get any until 16 all at once?
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Comment by himmiemom on December 30, 2010 at 9:13pm
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WOW!!! It looks like the mail vibes worked today. It looks like a lot of you got your first letter/letters and some already got their second letter/letters. I am seeing that most of the SR are enjoying the food. And that everyone pretty much gets the same time to eat and take showers. It is very interesting reading the comments on letters that moms have received from their SR.
I am sure going to miss my daughter when she goes back to school. With my son being gone at bc and the other at his dad since Christmas we were able to do some good old fashioned girl bonding. Today we went in town and there was a new store so in we went. My daughter had brought some money with her and was dying to spend it on something. After looking around for a while she came up to me and said she found what she wanted. I looked and what she had in her hand and she had a flat rock that was hand painted with her brothers name on it. She said that she was going to buy this for him to give to him at PIR and that God must have known that we were coming into the store because this was the only rock that wasn't in a bowl, it was just sitting out on a counter. Yes, I started to cry in the store and she looked over at the women behind the counter and said my mom does this when anything reminds her of my brother who is in the Navy.
So, the other boy came home from his dads tonight before I left for work and I was talking to him and I told him that I missed him, no comment from him, I said it again two more times. Finally he said "Yeah, I missed ya too". And than said to me"Now that my brother is gone and in bc are you going to start acting all strange towards me now?" I had to laugh because he was right. I have become different myself since my son left for bc.
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angie- see inbox, and good for you on the letters! I knew they would start coming! I am getting more excited every day about Feb 11th....I just wish the rest of you would get excited too!!
kidding, kidding...we are like a bunch of kids at Christmas! Happy we all joined forces here on N4Ms!
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my son is on ship 09 div 070 i just recieved my first letter yesterday, was so happy. he wrote me a 6 page letter said he was doing good and the letter couldnt of came at a better time,i just has surgery had my gallbladder removed and that letter made my day. he said his rdc were really cool and some of the other ones were hard core and was lucky to have the ones he has. he said he has met alot of good friends and they do have some laughs and good times and he was doing really good im so proud of him and that he gets a phone call this sunday for 50 mins that really made my day. he said they didnt get to call on christmas cause someone snuck out ..and on christmas eve they got free time from 7am to 1pm so that made me happy it was so nice hearing from him
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Comment by BBWinthemoon on December 30, 2010 at 8:44pm
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i heard that ship3 div803 got some call the other day, so ours should be soon.
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I saw some where that we could be getting calls next week sometime.
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Comment by pench on December 30, 2010 at 8:22pm
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BB and Proud USA MOM so excited for you both getting letters. that is awesome. Proud your son had his teeth pulled same day as mine did lol. can't wait for a phone call now lol.
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