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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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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."
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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If you know your recruit's PIR date, go to http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/groups-listed-by-pir-date and join the group for that. If you don't know the PIR date, join the group, DEP-Leavin for bootcamp in April, to connect with others with loved ones who left the same day and may have PIR together. I also invite you to join Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) and to check out the Pages (found under the pictures of the Members) there. Arrival and What Happens at the RTC will let you know what is happening.
(Group names within this reply are clickable links. To join a group, click on the group name and after the group page opens, click on “+ Join...” in the upper right.)
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Permalink Reply by Sharonclips on
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What is PIR? I saw some groups with same ship and div as my son. They said they would be together all the way through A school.
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PIR is another way of saying graduate from Navy Boot Camp. The Page, What does ??? mean? (A Guide to Navy Abbreviations and Terminology), will help you with many of the new terms you will come across.
No, the recruits in each division have contracts for several ratings (jobs/occupational specialties), so only a small number in each division will be in "A" School together, except for those in 800 divisions and then many will be together. See Ship/Division--How it Works.
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That is quite a lot of abbreviations!
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Permalink Reply by CryptoDad on
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That list only scratches the surface. The Navy has its own language: My CTR1(SW/IDW) is LPO in the SSES of a DDG.
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Div 197
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Permalink Reply by Momof9 on
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Welcome Sharonclips,
If I don't message back I am still learning the site and my teenagers are all my tech crew. :O) Hope to meet at PIR.
Blessings,
Momof9
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I know what you mean, my son was the computer geek and he showed us how to operate tv's and everything!
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