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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:

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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My son goes to meps this Thursday and Friday July 23 an 24. What can I expect to learn from being a Navy Mom. My husband has been in the Army 32 years. Is there a big difference in the 2 branches.

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I was an Army brat and a Navy Mom, There are some similarities in that they are both DoD and so the pay scale is the same; the unpredictability is the same....

There are differences of course; the biggest being the possibility of a duty station on board a Navy vessel.

You will find that Navy Moms have each others' backs, which you probably saw as an Army Wife. Having a family member in the military means that every military member and their families become family and jump in to help each other.

Thank you lemonelephant  for the information you provided for me... My husband is now in the National Guard but he's AGR. My son wanted to go in the Airforce but the Airforce Recruiters we seen was not so nice and didn't want to help my son even though he scored a 59 on their pretest and the score to make is a 50. So we decided that the Navy will good for him. He went in took the pretest scored a 70 and now the Recruiters got the ball rolling for him to go to Meps. I pray that he does well on the ASVAB and his physical. He study the ASVAB books all the time getting ready for the test.

You are very welcome.

Let me know when you know his ship date and the rating or field he signs a contract for and I can give you more info.

Hi Lemonelephant his BC date to leave is March 15

Wonderful. I left info for you on your My Page.

I don't see it Lemonelephant on my page.

Click on the MY PAGE tab above to be taken to your My Page.  Then scroll down to you Comment Wall. I have left several comments for you.

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