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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
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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
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
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Ship 09 - Div 267 and 268 (brother divisions)
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Permalink Reply by Josh'sMom-Div267 on
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Oh my gosh, what is wrong with me?? This should probably be posted as a blog and I will likely copy it as one but I cannot function right now... I am a blubbering wreck. I am so proud of Josh that words cannot express the way that I feel; yet I can't stop crying.
This is something extremely personal to me but I wrote him the following letter tonight to give to him after graduation on Friday:
"My dearest Joshy,
Hi bub. I know that I don't have to write letters anymore as our only means of communication but I wanted to write this last one... for now anyway. :)
Words cannot begin to express the pride that I feel for you. I am truly HONORED to call you my son. I am utterly beside myself and at a loss for words... *please bear in mind that is extremely difficult for me because, as you know, I always seem to have something to say. Hehe.. We have dealt with a lot of hardship together and you have been through more than I ever had to experience at your age... yet, you have managed to excel, despite all of that, and have accomplished more than I could have ever dreamed of.
Before you were even born, I knew in my heart that you were someone extremely special. I knew that you would become something truly great and deeply impact those around you. You have a gift. You have an unrelenting spirit that defines who you are and makes you the person that you are today... you have always been an "old soul", as Grandma Brown would say. To me, you are the greatest and most respected man that I have ever had the privilege to know and to love.
Where did the time go? One day, you were this curly headed little mommy's boy who would sing, "I love you all my heart and all my pieces, and all my hugs and kisses" and suddenly you are this man... this man who truly takes my breath away!. *I sincerely cannot catch my breath right now. Call 911, I am hyperventilating!! :) lol...
I love you more than I can begin to explain. You are my son, you are my sailor, and you are my HERO!"
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Permalink Reply by Dakota's Mom on
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OMG...I'm in tears! What a special letter for your son. I'm sure he will cherish it.
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