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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.  

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 daughter joined first week of May. Has called twice. Sounds so distressed and homesick. Got the position of Starboard Leader. What does that entail?

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Since this is a duplicate posting. Go to Options above and click Edit and then Delete this one.

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Could you please resend the links that you had sent me before Lemonelephant?

Recruit Petty Officer Positions within Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) will give you info about Starboard Watch Section Leader (SWSL). Join that group while you are there and check out the other Pages (found under the pictures of the members) as well. You may also want to check out Women in the Navy, Mom’s of Navy Daughters, and Mom's of Daughters 2. I see you have joined Nuke A School FAQ; you may also want to check out NUKE momsLoved Ones in the Nuke Program!, Nuke's Moms/Wives/Girlfriends/Friends, and Nuke School Charleston. The Rating Information Card for the Nuclear Field can be found at https://www.cool.navy.mil/enlisted/rating_info_cards/nukepower.pdf.

I think that is everything I had before and maybe more.

(Group names are clickable links.)

Awesome. Thank you so much.  I'm trying to figure out how to get around this site and I feel so desperately incompetent and it makes me anxious because I am afraid I will NOT know to get the information I need to know to ask my SR so that I may learn to follow her more closely through this site:(

I know asked her to put the calendar date and DOT on her next letter to me and to include when her BTS21 will be.

You are very welcome. See, you are learning already. There is lots of info for you in your PIR group and in the Pages within Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones).

I spoke to my daughter:) On Thursday May 30th she told me her calendar date was 2-5. Now that I have that date, how is it that I can follow what she is doing on this website??? I remember reading on a forum perhaps, that we could find out by PM ing her?

If Thursday was 2-5 DOT, then Friday was 3-1 DOT. http://www.navydep.com/forums/showthread.php?t=433 will give you a day by day. That link and others are within Arrival and What Happens at the RTC within Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones) and will let you know what is happening.

Thank you Lady Hamilton. Do you know where there's more updated information where I could follow her daily schedule?

There are several links within Arrival and What Happens at the RTC that give what happens each week, but no one has posted a more recent day by day that I am aware of and yes, I do realize that it is a few year's old. The info does still give a general idea of what takes place. The best way to know when something will happen for your recruit is to ask her. She will have a copy of the Master Training Schedule for her division and can tell you when things are going to happen.  You'll want to ask her at least about about the DOT for Marlinespike, pictures, and Battle Stations-21.

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