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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
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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For those of us who have children serving as Corpsmen, above and beyond the call of duty!
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Established June 17, 1898, the 25,000+ active duty members of the U.S. Navy Hospital Corps provide health care to Sailors, Marines, and all those entrusted to their care on the battlefield, at sea, under the sea, and at military treatment facilities worldwide.
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Comment by Sharon P.M. on December 14, 2009 at 3:50pm
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Cindy - congrats! Feet firmly planted in US soil is a wonderful Christmas gift! Be sure to give thanks to that young man for all he's done, and a big ol hug from all of us!
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Comment by TexasDocMom on December 14, 2009 at 3:26pm
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Cindy!! thanks for sharing!!! what a great Christmas gift for you and your family!! I'm so glad I checked my email just now to find this, it made my day!! If any mom spots your son from this group, she'll snap a photo!!
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Monica - It certainly isn't easy to go from A school to a C school but it can be done. Your son will have to study very hard and do well in A school, then when it is time to choose his next assignment, be it C school, FMTB, or going to work at a hospital etc. he will have more options the higher he is ranked in his class. Those at the top get to pick first. It is also this way in C school, those at the top of the class have first choice in where they go from there. Also, the needs of the Navy are always changing and come first and foremost, not all A school classes have the same options of C schools and continued training. I hope this helps. In the meantime, study, study, study is the best advice your son can follow! Will you be attending his PIR? It is truly something you should do if you're able!
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Glad to hear you're on the mend Tex!
Ruth - ENJOY your time with your cub!
My cub is back in VA, he will be heading to Naples tomorrow. Three weeks flew by way too fast! Yesterday was a tough day for this mom, so many conflicting emotions, so proud of my boy but miss him already! Our home is just so quiet without him home, even the dogs were kind of subdued last night!
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I'm going to skip that silly box thing that Ning is using now: http://www.statesman.com/search/content/editorial/stories/insight/2...
see if that one works!
I am feeling better, just weak. I didn't call the kid, it was his first whole week and weekend in his new apartment getting it all set up, new bed, washer/dryer, and the sheets, oh, my gosh, he bought sheets. He can save lives but that tale of shopping at Marshell's for those sheets cracked me up!
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hmm...try www.statesman.com and then search "marine medics" that's how I found it online after spotting it in my paper yesterday. Names some names, tells a great story, does make me antsy about the danger they're in, tho....but worth the read.
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Hey Natalie - we share something! My sailor is Devin too! Not too many of them around when he was born but seems like the name kind of caught on here in the past few years! :0)
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just getting to the newspaper today after coming home sick last night...look what I found :Story on Marine "medics" in the 2/2 and how they are working with the locals to combat the propaganda of the Taliban.
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My mother passed when I was carrying my son, so he never knew, only the stories about her. He came home sick one day, and I put him in bed, talking about my mom's nursing bedside manner and her cool hands when she touched me. I pulled out an old pair of sweats, about his size at the time...and said these were hers, I couldn't toss them. Next thing I know, he's in those sweats, wrapped up in his bed, sound asleep. When he woke up he said he slept good because his grandmother was such a good nurse. Think he was about 10. Isn't it wonderful he felt close to her for at least that time?
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My Grandma passed away about 15 yrs ago but she left her legacy here with us, I think of her every time I crochet a blanket or bake a treat, she taught me how to do both.
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