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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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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:
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:
**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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- Graduation Info
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Discussion Forum
Care packages for new graduates (a school)
Started by Cali's mama. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Mar 19, 2021. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Looking for current information for my daughter on what's allowed for care packages..idk if it matters that she is in the great lakes location or not..ship 7 div 136...lonely mom with confused tears lol
Bootcamp arrival Sept 8, 2020??
Started by Stephanie0725. Last reply by Shoosh Oct 5, 2020. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Hello! Got the call that my daughter made it to bootcamp quarantine last night 09/08/2020. Looking for other moms out there on the same timeline. Sadie is my baby, only daughter, and only child in the military. I think I am going to need lots of…Continue
PIR DATE: December 13, 2019
Started by Donita. Last reply by Donita Nov 5, 2019. 5 Replies 0 Likes
Anyone else’s recruit have a PIR date ofDecember 13, 2019?Continue
Arrived at boot camp October 2nd
Started by Donita. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Nov 5, 2019. 26 Replies 1 Like
Hey everyone- my daughter left for boot camp October 2nd. I missed a call from her last Friday telling me that her graduation is December 13th. I feel like the worst mom in the world for missing her call. Really didn’t expect her to call so soon but…Continue
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Comment by spyder013 on December 13, 2017 at 8:43am
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Anna, what a POS! No other words for him, he obviously doesn't deserve any!!!
I am so sorry this happened to Jenn, with all she has been through these past years! Thank God she is strong and we all know she will be fine but .... I just have no words:(. And yes, it does change your plans also, very definitely so I'm figuring all will be positive, sounds like this is where you need to be for your own health.
Please give Jenn hugs from all of us!
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Comment by bbcregular on December 13, 2017 at 8:32am
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Anna my heart breaks along with you and Jen. Navy life, deployments, and marriage is a hard life and takes strong individuals to sustain it. You and your hubby are proof of that strength. May God be with you as you council and love Jen with the roller coaster emotions that she will go through. Divorce is the same as a death and all those emotions will occur. I will continue to pray.
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Comment by JayDee659 on December 13, 2017 at 8:29am
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Anna, I'm so sorry that Jenn is going through this. Our thoughts and prayers are with her and with you. Stay strong momma, she's going to really need you. Remind me, is he in the military also? And don't worry, Bar Harbor will be there waiting for you...
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Comment by Raequel ⚓️ on December 13, 2017 at 8:21am
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Anna for you and your daughter
“We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.”
Romans 5:3-4
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Comment by Oleander on December 13, 2017 at 2:46am
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Raequel, we stayed at the Marriott Residence Inn Waukegan/Guernee for a couple of reasons - we cooked our own meals rather than go out and we had a 2 bdrm so other family who attended could stay with us. The accommodations were nice and we used their shuttle rather than drive our own car to PIR. We had a good experience.
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Anna! My heart is breaking for you and Jenn! Please know I'm sending you, your husband and Jenn love, support, and prayers as you deal with such a devastating blow. Who can know why things like this happen to wonderful people and families who give life their all. It's baffling. Please know we're here and we love you. I'm so sorry Anna!
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Anna thanks for the hotel pointer.
I’m so sorry to hear about your daughter and her husband. I will keep her in prayer. And you as well. Such a tough place for her to be in.
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Anna, what a huge trauma for your entire family. Even knowing that your daughter will be better off, in the long run, without a fully committed partner, doesn’t help at all at this point. Bottom line is that young man often really, really don’t know their own minds. I’m traveling right now, but wanted you to know how helpful and supportive I have found you to be in the past to us newer moms. Will write more when we are back home next week. Take care of yourself!
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Comment by Anna on December 12, 2017 at 10:42pm
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Ladies my heart is broken into a million pieces and I just have to get this off my chest. Many of you know my officer daughter Jenn and all she has been through since getting through OCS, her flight training in FL, the Survival training in Maine in the middle of the winter, and her health battles with thyroid disease and her working her butt off to catch back up to her peers after being sidelined for almost 2 years. Things are really starting to look up for her - one more year of these deployments and she can transfer to the training squadron as an instructor. No more deployments. So how in HELL could her husband of almost 3 years wait until two weeks before Christmas to drop a bomb that he doesn't want to be married to her anymore and is moving out on Thursday?!?!?!?! He has been thinking of this since September but never said a word one to her until last week, and since she was still deployed, didn't bother to tell her that his mind was already made up as to what he was going to do. She kept saying that as soon as she got home they would do whatever they needed to fix their relationship and work things out. She was so upset that the squadron sent her and the whole crew home 4 days earlier because she couldn't focus on her job while flying. Then he says Oh he already made up his mind, he just doesn't want to be married anymore, doesn't want to try to fix anything, and he already looked up how to go about filing for divorce!!!! She is devastated and just doesn't understand how he can just up and walk away from their marriage. She wants to try to fix things and he is just not interested!!!! Now it looks like instead of us continuing our travels in the spring we are moving into the house with her so we can take care of the animals and the house when she deploys until early 2019 when she can transfer. We are glad we are here to help her out at this most difficult time but it sure changes all our lives as well as hers. Who does something like this to another person? And someone that you professed to love, honor, and cherish just 3 short years ago??? This sucks!!
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Raequel,
My family stayed at the Sleep Inn on 41 just south of Great Lakes. There is also a McDonald's right nearby it. They provided a shuttle to and from RTC for PIR Friday morning and back to the hotel which we took advantage of and avoided having to get through the gate by car, park and walk to the drill hall. Our driver dropped us off across from the gate, we walked through security and on to the drill hall. Took about 5 minutes!!!! We lived in Waukegan for about a year and this hotel was one of the nicer ones as apposed to some of the really older hotels farther north!!! Just my opinion!!!
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