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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed.  Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).  

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED.  Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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ALUMNI OF PIR 09/04/2015 TG 43 - 11 Divisions (289-298, and 943)

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ALUMNI OF PIR 09/04/2015 TG 43 - 11 Divisions (289-298, and 943)

This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 09/04/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 98
Latest Activity: May 4, 2016

WELCOME to PIR 09/04/2015! 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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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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Discussion Forum

Proper Public Behavior with your new Sailor/Uniforms

Started by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW. Last reply by DNavyFamily Sep 2, 2015. 1 Reply

Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 943

Started by ellen0502. Last reply by ProudNVYFam Sep 1, 2015. 94 Replies

Meeting your NEW Sailor at the Airport/USO info

Started by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW. Last reply by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW Aug 31, 2015. 3 Replies

^^^^^ BATTLESTATIONS: THEIR FINAL TEST ! ^^^^^

Started by diannep. Last reply by Steph Proud AG Mom Aug 31, 2015. 1 Reply

looking for DIV 297 moms

Started by missymom297. Last reply by missymom297 Jul 28, 2015. 3 Replies

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Comment by Stephanie on July 28, 2015 at 11:31am

KathieFlorida, my son is Ship 13 Div 291 as well! He said he's made a couple great friends.  He will be going to Pensacola for A school.  How about your son?

Comment by KathieFlorida on July 28, 2015 at 11:06am

Hello all - I am new to the website.  My son is assigned to Ship 13, Div. 291.  Hope to connect with fellow moms.  We will be attending PIR on 9/4.  Can't wait to get my hands on him!    Thanks.  

Comment by s.m.r. on July 28, 2015 at 10:09am
Good Morning
Comment by diannep on July 28, 2015 at 8:47am

Good Morning!

Comment by CatMom509 on July 27, 2015 at 9:07pm

Oh,kathryn,

Please be sure to either ask your SR or you can purchase yourself the PIR DVD ($29) that is available of each PIR. Your SR can order it when he orders his official pics or you can order it during the week after the PIR. It is my most precious keepsake from my Sailor daughter's PIR!! I happily watch it every few months when I am missing her~~

Comment by fremont123 on July 27, 2015 at 8:37pm
Yes for sure we will start taking her letters to the post office. Very sad to think people feel it's ok to steal our mail
Comment by CatMom509 on July 27, 2015 at 8:37pm

fremont123,

Oh, that's sad!! Someone must have thought you had money or checks in those letters~~ Well, at least you can re-write them and nothing valuable (hopefully) was lost in the process. I had that happen when I put out an engraved Challenge Coin to be sent to my Sailor daughter in our mailbox the night before. Now I only put outgoing mail during the day or drop off at the post office~~

Comment by CatMom509 on July 27, 2015 at 8:34pm

kathryn,

It's still early in their training and the RDCs have the daunting tasks of taking 88 or so individuals from all walks of life--recent high school graduates to young adults deciding to make a positive changes in their lives from all over the U.S. and world and get them to take their eyes off themselves and place them on the Navy to work together as a team wherever they may be sent on their missions. The RDCs have to break these individuals down at this time, then they will build them back up and help them see that they can be a proud United States Navy Sailor!! Some will make the transition and some won't. It's defnitely not going to be easy, but where else will you be paid while you are being trained? Where else will provide you with certifications and skills that you can use in the private sector? Where else will you have tuition assistance and Post 911 educational benefits that you can transfer to your spouse or children? Where else will you have medical, dental, mental, and other benefits in addition to housing all over the world? Travel and adventure while serving the United States? It takes special people to enlist in the military~~

I do hope that the next time your SR son calls, he'll be feeling differently~~ As a mom, I know you want him happy and I hope you can encourage him the best that you can and above all, no matter what happens, just support him and love him~~ ((HUGS))

Comment by diannep on July 27, 2015 at 8:21pm

That is so awful, fremont.....terrible.  We have not been able to mail anything from our mail box in years.  Mail started to be stolen from MIA mailboxes probably 20 or more years ago....we always take our mail to a post office.  Not so convenient....but at least it is a little safer!  But to take personal letters from your mailbox...that is the lowest.  They were probably just grabbing mail from a bunch of mailboxes....and sifted through it later to see if any cash, etc was in it.  Did your neighbors also have some stolen?  Maybe just try putting them in the mailbox in the morning rather than the night before.  My sister who lives here in MIA too used to put her letters in the mailbox the night before, and one time, someone stole all of it, including the checks/bills she had in there---lots of them....they "washed" the checks and used them written for a different amount so they could cash them.  Such a shame that the world has come to this....but dishonesty and crime seems to be everywhere. 

Comment by fremont123 on July 27, 2015 at 8:07pm
Very disappointed. We wrote letters last night to our daughter only to find out this morning someone stole them out of our mail box last night.
 
 
 

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