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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.
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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.
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- Graduation Info
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Roll Call: Name your sailor's sub!
Submarine moms are special:
--- All of us have boys, "SAILORS!"
--- Who serve on "boats,"
--- With whereabouts unknown, and
--- We only get sporadic, short emails while they're out!
Tell us where your sailor serves...
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Permalink Reply by Linda on
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My son is a Yeoman on the USS Charlotte, fast attack, stationed in Hawaii. They just pulled out yesterday..
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I everyone. My sailor is Aaron, my son. He is currently in between schools. He graduated from A school in Dec. He starts Power school in Feb. He wants to be on a fast attack sub. He also thinks that because it is closer to home, (which I'm not sure it is) to go to proto type in NY instead of staying in SC. I personally would rather spend the winter in SC than in NY. Does anyone know where in NY it is?
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Hi Carol,
Power school is in Ballston Spa, NY which is near Saratoga Springs in upstate New York. -
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Carol,
Tell your son to pack his long johns. I live about 20 mins. from the school in Balston Spa and we have about 2 and half to 3 feet of snow. It snowed here all day today and we got about 10 inches of snow. He will definitely need his Navy issued Pcoat!! -
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If you follow the information on prototype in Ballston Spa, you will notice that things are really backed up there. There was a problem and the school was/is shut down sometime last fall. The scuttlebutt is that it will be up for a short time to finish the class that was near finishing last fall. About 1/2 of the December power school graduates are waiting in GC now for a place to go to prototype because BS is down. Aaron should decide to go wherever he can get done first. By next fall things may be better, I hope for Aaron's sake he isn't sitting waiting for the pipeline to open up. My son was lucky, he is in prototype at GC now.
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Hi Carol,
I (and my son, now a nuke on the Louisville) are native New Yorkers. Power school in NY is upstate, in a small town called Ballston Spa...it's very close to Saratoga. (Think Saratoga Race Track, August every year). Though we live downstate (NY City), my son was very happy upstate. He found the snow much easier to deal with than the heat and humidity of the South. There was no base housing, so along with five others, they rented a lovely home and had a great experience! -
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Hello to all,
My son is aboard the USS Columbia, a fast attack sub, homeported in Pearl Harbor, HI. Aloha to all on behalf of my son!! -
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Our son, Michael, has justed finished three years of shore duty at Yokosuka Japan and is getting settled in Guam. He's been assigned to the USS Buffalo, home ported in Guam, just in time to ride it to Hawaii for a six month dry dock. He did Basic at Great Lakes, Tech school at Groton CT, Recruiter right here in his home town (what a special time for all of us), five years in Hawaii assigned to the USS Los Angeles, three years at Yokosuka Japan on shore duty, and now brand new to the USS Buffalo. He's really looking forward to being back on a boat. And yes, I he had to explain to me (more than once) that a surface vehicle is a 'ship' and a sub is a 'boat' :-). Looking forward to getting to know other sub Moms.
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My son is Patrick, on the USS Michigan,blue crew...out of Bangor WA...has been out since November and is coming home this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait!
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My son is Brian. He is a MM on the USS Nebraska gold crew, in Bangor WA. They just got back from a cruise. The boat is going into dry dock? Not sure what that means. But know that he will have watch duty just the same.
Any other gold crew moms out there?
My son is married, so I guess I'm sort of out of the loop on a lot of the lingo as his wife deals with everything Navy. My husband who is former Navy understands everything though :). I'm usually asking him a lot of questions. -
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Permalink Reply by Sandy C ( Ryan's mom ) on
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My son Ryan is on the SSN778 USS New Hampshire. Named after his home state:) He is out of Groton CT. He enlisted in 2006. He is in Navigations Division and is a Petty Officer 3rd class. GO GRANITE STATE!!! GO NAVY!!! HOOYA!!
Any one else have some one on the 778? -
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My son, Matt is also on the USS New Hampshire. He's been there since Nov 1, 07 and enlisted in 2005. He is a "Nuke" and an MM2.
I have a few pics on my page, taken at the commissioning. We had never been to that part of the country and found that it was beautiful. Especially at that time of year. -
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