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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:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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How did you find us?
I am so excited. :)
This is the best snowball ever! I’ve been so curious…how did you find out about our community? Some moms have told me about the http://www.nstc.navy.mil/rtcgl/family/index.html site… Is that were you found us... or was it through another source? Thank you!
UPDATE 4/20/2008: Hi Everyone! I brought this forward because I really want to know! :) How did you find out about us?!
UPDATE: 2/17/2010: Hello N4M's. We are interested in where all of our members founds us! Stop by and leave a message.
Thank you for making this community what it is today!
Elizabeth and Colleen
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Permalink Reply by Kathy M on
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I saw it mentioned on TV. I don't remember if it was a news program or what. How wonderful it would have been to have found something like this when my kids were in boot camp or newly deployed. Still, I'm happy to find it almost 9 years later. I have to give you moms credit. You are a lot more involved than I was able to be. It was so frustrating to want more involvement and only to be able to write letters or e-mails. And seldom were my questions ever answered.
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Hi Kathy,
I know what you mean. When my daughter joined the Navy and my son joined the Army, there were no support groups I was aware of. This was in the early 90s. Later on, more support groups formed, and they were very helpful. My daughter actually told me about this group. BTW, I also have a Blue Star Banner with two stars. It has been hanging in my window since 9/11.
Sue in LV
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Hi Sue, Congrats on your family. How does the Navy compare to the Army? Do you have another avenue to follow the Army with? Are they both in for life? Things must have been really scary for you when 9/11 happened. They sure were for me. Please thank both your kids for me.
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Sue,
Where can you get the blue star banner? My son is finishing his A school and would love to have one for my window.
Barb K.
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Hi Kathy, Barb and everyone else,
I've gotten my blue star banner from www.serviceflags.com. They have lots of military support items. They are wonderful people.
Both my kids are lifers. If I recall, they both joined at the approximately same time. I used to get a kick out of Jeff saluting Lisa. She went in as an officer, and Jeff was enlisted. Jeff returned to the civilian world, but Lisa was in in for the long haul. Around 9/11, Jeff reenlisted and has since decided to make the army his career. I found army yahoo groups and the Blue Star Mothers of America, and have gotten a lot of support from them.
Sue in LV
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Jan and Sue,
Thank you so much for the info on the blue star banner. I am going to go online today and order my banner today!
Thanks! :0)
Barb K.
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The folks at www.serviceflags.com are awesome. I needed yellow ribbons for my house in a hurry when my son was coming home. They personalize them. They made them and shipped them in one day. The folks there are awesome and have a heart for our military.
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I found it using http://www.nstc.navy.mil/rtcgl/ which I learned about in the Graduation packet.
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My son sent this web site to me. He is currently staioned onboard the USS Nashville.
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I found your link on the Navy site... I wish all the recuiting offices that deal with us mothers would tell people about it ahead of time. I was a wreck the first two weeks before he left and this would have helped me immensly!! Thanks for being here!!
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Reply by Kim Mills on February 28, 2008 at 8:29pm
I went on the website for boot camp to check the weather there and there was a link for this new site, which I instantly clicked on.
Same thing for me...this website just showed up one day on the RTC main page...wonderful!!
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