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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
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
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Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
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**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:
**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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I'm a wreck!
I'm a wreck and he hasn't even left yet. And the sad thing is that he probably won't be leaving until June or July. This whole thing has hit me like a ton of bricks. He had talked on and off about joining the Navy, but I thought it was just talk because he talked about other options, too. Then WHAM! He and his Dad are off to talk to the Recruiter. I was told "don't worry, we are just getting information." Next thing I know, he has decided to join the Navy and the ton of bricks have fallen on my head.
I go from being so proud of him to crying my eyes out. Is this silly? How I am going to be when he REALLY does leave? I am afraid I will be a basket case!
I did get the book "When the Eagle Invades the Nest." I cried my way through that. Seems like I cry a lot lately. Kleenex should show a hefty profit this year!
Is this normal?
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Comment by GoatLady (USS Theodore Roosvelt) on December 27, 2010 at 12:29pm
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I know this is the best thing for him. It just really caught me off guard. It is all so new. I think once it really sinks in, I will be OK. Thanks for listening!
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Comment by bendebhartner(ship09-DIV075) on December 28, 2010 at 1:55am
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It will get worse before it gets better, so spend as much time with him as possible before he leaves. Support him in this, because he wants and needs your approval, don't smother him but give him lots of encouragement and cry in your room behind closed doors. My son left for Boot Camp on the 14th of Dec. I know how you feel, I had to keep telling myself my parents supported me in whatever I did at his age, and I will do the same, God Bless and be a proud mom that your son has chosen this career path.
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Comment by himmiemom on December 28, 2010 at 2:16am
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First be proud of him and his choice to join the Navy. Second spend quality time with your son and what I found helpful was writing in a journal your feelings. Sometimes writing it down helps. Third you are doing it right now. Sorting through all your feelings. Crying is okay. It doesn't matter if you just found out or if you are three weeks into boot camp with your son like I am. It is a roller coaster of emotions and that is to be expected. I knew over a year that my son was joining the Navy. He finally got in two weeks before his high school graduation in May. That is when it really hit me. I was proud of him and happy for him, but also sad all at the same time. The hardest part has been the unknown through all of this. N4M has given me new friends and precious information to help me through all of this. I honestly don't know what I would have done if I hadn't heard about this site. There is no parent handbook out there to cover everything we experience in life, but having others to talk to that have gone through it or others going through it at the same time makes a world of a difference.
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Oh my! You sound so much like me! I cry at the drop of a hat. I think about him leaving for Boot Camp - I cry - getting the first letter or call - I cry - him coming home - I cry - PIR - I cry - him coming home for the holidays - I cry - him leaving after the holidays - I cry. I am glad you don't think I'm nuts because I think I am! My husband tells me that I am just entering a new phase of my life and it all seems so new right now. But it will all be OK and Nathan (my son) will be OK. So I need to stop worrying (easy for my husband to say! he is not a Mom!) My son hasn't graduated yet from high school, he will this Spring. I am here, too, if you need someone to talk to!
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Comment by RenoMom (Ship 03 Div 080) on December 30, 2010 at 3:56pm
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My husband told me to stop crying because I need to be there for him!!! Hee Hee. Totally normal and you will continue to cry on and off. Sometimes I just have to tell people when they ask me about my son that I don't want to talk about it.
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