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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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SON LEAVING FOR BOOTCAMP ON MONDAY
Thank you for all the replies to my above discussion. I am glad that so many of you are going through the same thing. Not that I wish all the crying on any of us, but I don't feel so alone. No one I know has a son or daughter in the military or leaving for the military. Not that the people around me don't understand why I'm upset, but some still make me feel as if I shouldn't be so upset since I will be seeing him again in the not too distant future. My poor son has been all into this decision he made, but this morning when he got up and realized he would be headed off to the hotel they were having him stay in tonight and that tomorrow morning it was finally happening, he started throwing up. He use to do that when his nerves got back as a younger kid, but it has been years since he got sick over nerves. I felt so sorry for him, but when he left to head to the recruiters office 45 minutes ago, he was doing okay...until he saw me crying and then he said as he walked out the door, "Now you've got me crying.". My husband took him to the recruiters office because I knew I'd be crying and I figured I'd do enough of that in front of him tomorrow at his swearing in. They said we could to with him to the airport or meet him there and say goodbye before he went through security. I will miss him very much as he is my 1st born and 1st to leave home, but I am extremely proud of him and know that this is going to be good for him. Thank you again for all of your comments and I will definitely get on this site often to see how everyone is doing. Please feel free to contact me if you need to talk too.
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Hi Kfarey..
.my son left today....I just posted on your original post....I think we are very similar..he is also my first born and first to leave home...The emptyness is so deep its undescribable ...hopefully we are in the right place and can find all the answers we are looking for...stay strong and get some rest..once I get my " I made it" call I plan on putting my head on my pillow and trying to sleep..I know its what I need....the offer goes both ways...if you need me I will also be here for you :)
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