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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.

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.  

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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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tears of pain and worry......and getting CLOSER!!!!!

Me and blake have been together for 2 yrs January 20...my worst fear keeps getting closer and closer and with every passing day i cry more and more...it seems that blake is asking me what is wrong everyday.."Well punkin, my best friend and person that knows me better than i know my self is leaving me all alone for 2 months to fend for my self." is what i always think. His nickname is punkin by the way lol. I'm so angry with my self, for telling him that i would be ok with this. Im so far from ok with it, i have never ever been ok i wasnt even ok with it when his brother joined army, and hes just my friend!!! Right now im so depressed in fact im crying now, while blake sleeps right beside me.
How am i going to sleep at night when hes gone after getting use to him being here at night (when he leaves in April we will have been living together for 3 months) i have already told Bryan(Blakes brother, one of my best friends) and Tusa( blakes friend from DEP) that when he leaves u will have to physically pick me up and put me in the car and drive me to my moms house, because i will be crying to hard and having a panic attack but i dnt think that will come for a few days...maybe less knowing myself. He's my baby, my punkin..and i dnt know what im going to do with out him. And i cnt keep myself busy now because im not supposed to drive for 6 months..and i have news for everyone come time to move to Charleston with him, Im driving sezuire or not!! nothing will stop me from being with him and having my car!!
All of the things i had dreamed for us just shattered and i dnt know how to piece them back together..people keep saying u have to be strong for ur man, or u have to show them support,etc but who is going to be there for me! who is going to be strong and hold me together! hes leaving me the one who does all of that is leaving me on Feb 22 and i dnt really have a whole lot of other people i trust..it feels like the world is being put on my shoulders and keeps getting heavier, im waiting for blake to tell me he wants a different job, or hes being deployed or grad and go, whatever can be worst news..or my favorite one to think of is being sent to boot camp early, like before our wedding day...i dnt want him to go...
Its not right...the only good i see in this mess is a steady income and good insurance, thats it..the rest is my husband being gone for 6-9 months or whenever, the father of my future children missing out on the lives of our kids,me having to do EVERYTHING on my own without support without help...without MY MAN!!!
Everyday i have woken up and thought was all that just a dream...just to find out its reality and its getting closer and closer...and i beg him not to go....tell him ill work how many ever jobs to get him through school just please please dnt go!!! And the answer always is "Whitney I'm going." God hes just as stubborn as Bryan...those 2 should be twins sometimes....This is just one big mess i call my life
Im suppsoed to be excited about getting married in Feb and im not...because i know whats after it...and i want to be married to him so bad, and i love him so much, i just have a really really bad feeling about him in the Navy..and i want to MURDER his recruiter but hes in Iraq so hes to far away to strangle...yet...lol..
One of his recruiters really pissed me off last Thursday, i ride with Blake everyweek to his DEP meetings and sit in the car and wait the hour and a half that hes in, well when we got there it was early and so i was finishing putting on my makeup because i was going to meet a friend and hang out until he was done..Blake goes to his group of people....and starts talking, then he walks back to the car opens the door and says "Cheif said come say hi to everyone..." one im not a people person im very shy until i start talking (then i never shut up)..and two he isn't my Cheif i dnt have to do shit!!! Then i get out of the car and say hey and his recruiter asked " Are you ready for him to leave for Boot Camp?" and at this my blood presure went sky high!! I "said no no im not..!" he said something else i dnt know what and i got back in the car...Blake came back over and i told him " you better be very glad i just didnt lose the really bad temper we know i have..or you would have been doing a lot of running and sit ups!!" Blake said " He didnt mean it in a smart ass way!! i promise whitney..he was just asking if you were prepared.." First off who in their right mind can be prepared for someone they love to LEAVE without being able to talk to them see them to touch them, to have them even say I LOVE YOU for two insert cuss word here...second No No im not ready for him to leave ME thats a STUPID question to ask the wife of ANYONE especially a wife or fiance of someone in the MILITARY!!!! Gahhhhhhhhhh...thats my aggravation for the day!!!
Then i have a friend whose Fiance is in the Airforce and i hear her stories and it just keeps reassuring me of how miserable im going to be....and with the driving rule i really cnt keep my self busy.,..HELL i cnt keep my self busy to get my mind off it now how am i going to be able to do it then!!!!!!!!!!

-Whitney

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