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Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.
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:
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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- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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Comment by MissJenniL09 on June 1, 2012 at 7:25pm
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Can anyone please tell me the daily class time for a school? I'm marrying my sailor in August and we both have to be present for the marriage liscense...we have to be there by 4pm. Any insight would be great! Thank you!
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Comment by NavySpouse on May 2, 2012 at 4:14pm
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Well, depending on when he starts school, which is usually about 1-2 weeks after arriving to Pensacola, he may be done end of October as long as he doesn't have setbacks. At that time, he can then ask for leave before going to his new duty station. They usually have accumulated enough days to take about 12-14 days off.
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Comment by mareluc(Ship11/Div196/PIR 6/29) on May 2, 2012 at 4:03pm
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Thanks for the info. My son graduates bc end of June then off to A school. My younger son is leaving on November 5th so I am trying to plan it late Sept or sometime in Oct. Hopefully by then he will be in the later phases and we can work something out. Reality hit home for my youngest son when we left his big brother at airport last week. He will only see him for his PIR then with him going to the Marines in November he realized he may not see him for a long, long time. I appreciate your help!
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Not really. Their schedule is very tight and demanding during the week and usually leave is only granted for emergencies. As for Liberty, it will depend on what day you're thinking of. First off you need to know what phase he's in I, II, III. During the week, if it's not a duty section day, he can be picked up and you can go to dinner or something like that. If it's weekend, again as long as he doesn't have duty section that weekend (he can't leave base if he does), and he's already phase III, you can sign him out friday when they call liberty, usually between 3-5pm, and he wouldn't have to be back until sunday evening. If he's phase II, he needs to be back every night for muster. He has to stay within a certain distance though (ex. Orlando is too far and he'd need a chit, also known as a permission, for it) Hope this all makes sense, if you have any other questions let me know :-)
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Sorry have to get used to terminology? I am new to all this.
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Sorry I mean Liberty!!
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I hope someone can help me. I have a question regarding Leave during A school. My son will be attending A school to become an Air Traffic Controller after boot camp. I still have a few months but I was just wondering if they get leave at all during A school. My younger son will be leaving for the Marines before my Sailor's A school will be finished and I was just wondering if I would be able to take a trip to Pensacola so they could spend a day or two together? Does anyone know? Thanks!!!!
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Comment by ddd - Ship 11 Div 082 on March 21, 2012 at 3:03pm
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Thank you NavySpouse!
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Hi ddd - My husbands in training right now. Thankfully in the latter half :-) They just selected orders not too long ago and he got sea duty on a carrier. Selecting orders is in order of highest grade in class goes first, then second, and so on. It changes from class to class as to what's available. In my husbands class there was I believe 2 sea duty locations and the rest were shore and ranged from San Diego, Virginia, Washington State, Pensacola, and a lot of overseas: Spain, Italy Greece, Japan. My biggest tip for him/her is to get A LOT of index cards for flashcards to study. Block 1 is all about memorization, terminology. To stay focused and study study study. If he/she can stay in the top of the class, the higher the chances of getting sea duty. If he/she gets sea duty on a carrier, they have to do C School before going to their assignment. This is 6 weeks and may or may not start immediately after A School. Meaning, there can be a 1-4 week wait depending on the next available class. At least thats what my husband was told about when he finishes soon. Any questions let me know. Calbransmommy helped me a lot too and has some good info too :-)
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Thanks calbransmommy! I'm so new at this for this rate that I'm not sure where to begin. A school is for basic AC training - what are their options after this...more training? My AR wants to be on a carrier but knows that orders could be land and that carrier is not always for "newbies". So, I'm not sure, as you can see, how this works.
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