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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
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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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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Great Lakes A School Q&A
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The purpose of this group is to allow family of new sailors assigned to school at Training Support Center Great Lakes a chance to voice questions to a Student Division Commander
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 2332
Latest Activity: Mar 12
Discussion Forum
leave after A/C school-- orders are confusing
Started by MANDY. Last reply by Anti M Aug 16, 2019. 2 Replies 0 Likes
What happens after ASchool?
Started by SailorMom18. Last reply by Phoenixmom Feb 13, 2019. 1 Reply 0 Likes
BECC Info?
Started by adubz33. Last reply by SuBHuni34 Nov 29, 2018. 9 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Gina on December 8, 2009 at 6:07pm
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We did PIR on 12-4 and it was awesome! Thomas is doing A school for AE at GL and I'm still waiting on his new address and all the info. He thought he should know something by tomorrow and I sure hope so! I got spoiled last weekend getting to see him and now I'm missing him all over again!
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Comment by mtnmom on December 8, 2009 at 3:33pm
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Kelly--
Thanks for the information on the flights.
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Hi there Chaeladiane-
Did you go to the PIR last weekend?
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Thanks Kelly, this information helps. He told me that he should have leave for the holidays if we can get him a ticket home.
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Hi All;
I'm new to this group, my son should be moving to Great Lakes A school tomorrow. Any help you can give me in this new adventure in my son's life would be greatly appreciated.
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Comment by Anti M on December 8, 2009 at 12:14pm
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Good roommates are priceless. I still get a holiday letter from one of mine, I have shared all her family triumphs and tears... and I have not seen her for 30 years.
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LOL, Connie... I have rowdy stories too, I tend not to share them. My friends all think my Navy stories start with, "This one time when we were really, really drunk...."
Like the time in Japan my friend decide he needed a light bulb from the torch of the Statue of Liberty on top of the Love Hotel sign. In the rain. Six stories up. About three in the morning I think. He went up the stairs of the apartment building behind the hotel. jumped over three stories up, and shimmied up the drainpipe. Then he climbed through the neon sign (!!!), the high voltage neon sign. Did I mention the rain? Yikes. He settled for a light from the base of Lady Liberty, she was too slick to climb on. No, we were not egging him on, but we didn't call security either. Ah kids. We were all E-5s at the time..... yeah, we definitely should have known better.
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Ah, barracks roommates. I've had some who became lifelong friends, others I wanted to take into the gear locker and smack them around. There's a reason I got my own apartment as soon as I could in Japan. My roommate there was terrible, took up most of the room, didn't want me to use the bathroom before her but she wouldn't get up early enough in the morning for us both to be ready, and wanted the heat up high in the room at night. I can't sleep in a hot room. She wouldn't talk any of this over with me, she'd just yell at me and complain at work. we didn't work together, but we were at the same command, so we knew al the same people. I HATED her. LOL. But my bed was under the thermostat....
And then there was my gay roommate, nice girl and I could have cared less about her choices... except she was dating a gal who worked for me. In the days before don't ask don't tell, you could be busted for knowing and not reporting. Room changes were never authorized. We had a very sympathetic female CO, I requested a private Captain's Mast so I could talk with her in confidence. She didn't care about who was gay either, but she arranged for me to switch rooms as the gal who was dating my roomie was having severe problems with her roommate. Turns out my new roomie was just a little OCD and we worked it out just fine.
I have tons of stories....
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Comment by Joanie Tyler's Mom(133 Bees) on December 7, 2009 at 4:36pm
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Tyler leaves O-Hare about 12:30 PM and will arrive in Jackson, MS about 4:40 PM. It's about 1 hour to our house.
Gatormom: I have family that lives in Little Rock and Texarkana. I'm about 5 hours from Texarkana.
Connie: Tyler is an only child too so I know he is extremely spoiled. I just pray he'll keep his room clean while he's home.
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Well, for southern Mississippi.....snow and cold over the weekend... it's about 51 here today...supposed to be 70 tomorrow with chance of tornados...hope it's decent winter temps when Tyler gets home from GL on the 18th. We never know what kind of weather we'll get. We say... If you're too cold today, just hang on, you'll be too hot tomorrow!
What is FATS course...is it related to gunners mate?
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