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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:

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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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Story Number: NNS091207-12 Release Date: 12/7/2009 3:25:00 PM

By Kristine M. Sturkie, Navy Exchange Service Command Public Affairs

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (NNS) -- The Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) announced that for the eighth holiday season in a row, military members underway or forward deployed during the holiday season will be given free phone cards to call loved ones back home.

"I'm glad we are once again able to provide these free phone cards to military members who will be away from their loved ones during the holiday season," said Jennie Zack, NEXCOM personal telecommunications specialist. "Our military members do so much for us throughout the year and make huge sacrifices, such as being away from home over the holidays. These phone cards are our way of saying thank you."

Each Sailor, Marine and Coast Guard member who will be deployed or forward deployed during the December holiday season on board Navy ships or Coast Guard vessels equipped with AT&T Direct Ocean Service phones will receive a $10 prepaid phone card. In addition, Sailors who will be deployed on submarines will also be receiving a card. NEXCOM expects to distribute nearly 38,000 free phone cards during the holidays.

Ships receiving the free phone cards this year include the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), USS San Jacinto (CG 56), USS Hue City (CG 66), USS Carney (DDG 64), USS Winston S Churchill (DDG 81), USS Nimitz (CVN 68), USS Princeton (CG 59), USS Higgins (DDG 76), USS Chafee (DDG 90), USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), USS Cleveland (LPD 7), USS Rushmore (LSD 7), USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), USS George Washington (CVN 73), USS Cowpens (CG 63), USS Shiloh (CG 67), USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54), USS John S. McCain (DDG 56), USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), USS Lassen (DDG 82), USS McCampbell (DDG 85), USS Stethem (DDG 63), USS Essex (LHD 2), USS Denver (LPD 9), USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49), USS Tortuga (LSD 46), USS Frank Cable (AS 40), USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20), USS Carter Hall (LSD 50), USS Benfold (DDG 65), USS Donald Cook (DDG 75).

For more news from Navy Exchange Service Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/nexcom/.

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Eight years! Thank you Nexcom!
two thumbs up :)
Hopefully it will make Christmas just a little bit merry for some sailors!

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