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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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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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**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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Discussion Forum
How long is A School for AD?
Started by imomxfour x 3 Sailors. Last reply by melbell Oct 4, 2017. 6 Replies 0 Likes
So how exactly does the squadron thing work?
Started by rmb. Last reply by Jakesmom Jun 30, 2014. 9 Replies 1 Like
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Comment by UrabissWife on May 27, 2013 at 2:08pm
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it takes a bit for them to get scheduled when they get to A school. and they are still in bootcamp mode and trying to figure out what is going on. When mu husband got there I heard from him the next day but they are not use to talking a lot so it was short phone calls. they have a lot to do when they first get there. they have a lot of qualifications to get.
Tamuk23 it took my husband a month to class up. it just depends on the flow of things out there. my husband was waiting for ore AD's to show up to start the class. so it just depends. some schools are way backed up. Pensacola wasn't too bad. a lot has changed since the budget cuts though so you'll never really know. they check a list daily to see if they classed up so its a wait game :)
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Comment by tamuk23 on May 26, 2013 at 7:26pm
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My brother flew in last night also, I received a text from him when he landed but haven't heard from him since...he said he starts school on June 3rd, however from looking at posts on here it looks like they take longer than that to actually get started...any insight?
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Comment by RezqNinja on May 26, 2013 at 7:21pm
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Wondering who all has a sailor going to Pensacola for "A" school?
My boy flew in last night...
I haven't heard from him yet, but I'm sure it will take a few days for the dust to settle. I live in Washington state... just wanted to say hi.
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Comment by SoCal Ohana on May 23, 2013 at 5:31pm
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JUST found out that my daughter classes up 5/29!!!!!!!!!!! Wooohooo!
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Anyone have someone waiting to class up in Pcola?
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Thank you so much! :)
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Comment by jskmom/Linda on May 17, 2013 at 5:49pm
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Elicia, I believe that is correct that P3's are only in Jacksonville, Fl, Whidbey Island Washington and Hawaii. My son will be working on P3's and he is in Washington. He has several friends from Pensacola A school who are in Jacksonville. I also think deployments are in Japan or Bahrain. Those are the 2 that I know of. My son got there on April 30th and there is a deployment soon or may have already happened. He got there to late to go on that deployment. They may do deployments every 6 months from what my son thought.He is" I" level. Working on engines in the shop. Thats all I know. If anyone else knows any information I would love to know.
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Also - when working on the P3's does anyone know an average length of deployment? Are there specific places that are available for P3's as well?
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I was so excited to see talking about P3s! My daughter is waiting to class up in Pensacola at the moment and says that she wants to do very well so she can choose to work on P3s. I have heard that they are only in Florida, Washington and Hawaii - does anyone know if that is correct?
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Comment by Valtameri on May 3, 2013 at 12:16pm
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My son worked I-level for a brief time. The I stands for Intermediate -- they usually work on components in a central shop (not connected to any specific squadron). For example, engines would be brought to them and they would work on the inner components. O-level (organizational) is when they do maintenance for the aircraft in a squadron.
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