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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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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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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DLI grad gift for CTI
Started by Harrison. Last reply by StarryNights Dec 8, 2019. 1 Reply 0 Likes
life at DLI
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Comment by Reid's Ma on September 25, 2012 at 12:41pm
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Noni, bc I get the impression from him and from this site that most of the school is sailors straight from BC. This is his 3rd enlistment and is still in the "holding" group until mid October --but he had to leave San Diego in August to report to DLI. Do you know how to friend me?
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Comment by Noni on September 25, 2012 at 11:25am
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Reid's Ma,
My son is a fleet returnee. He was undesignated in SanDiego. Got to cut his delpoymt short to go to DLI. Thanks goodness! He starts classes this Thurs.
Why do you ask?
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He will meet and make lots of new friends out there! The military is like a frequent graduation from high school-- except that with the net they can now stay in touch! and possibly meet up again. Best of luck to him.
Again, are there any family members of fleet returnees on this site?
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Comment by KC'smom on September 23, 2012 at 3:16pm
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So every single member of the Navy from my son's graduating class moved onto their next state. They all went to the same place of course, except my son. I feel so bad for him. He has to go to a strange school for just 2 or 3 weeks and then another school for 2 weeks and so on and so on. Not knowing a soul. He had made such bonds with his Navy classmates at DLI. But because he is Aircrew he doesn't go on with them. He looked really down about that. Even his 2 closest friends who are the only other 2 people being deployed went on to the next state with everyone else. Right now he's on the rode driving from Monterey to Pensacola. I was wondering- can you moms ask your sons or daughters if they ever get to meet up with their old classmates after a deployment ( back at their assigned base)? I know he will eventually go to his assigned state/base but don't know when.
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Comment by trishblues on September 23, 2012 at 8:33am
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I checked his papers, he is a CTT, thanks for info!
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My son is CTI, with PIR Oct. 5, going to Corry for a school. Anyone else with that PIR?
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So glad to hear you two say that!!! I had my fingernails digging into my husbands thigh as he was driving begging him to go 15 mph! Hahaha. I have a terrible fear of heights & had to put my head down & close my eyes while my family made fun of me the whole time. And yes, there was a part of the road under construction right near a bridge & of course we were stopped RIGHT ON the bridge while the road crew let the other lane pass by. Ugh!
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We went there also, its beautiful but a bit scarey near the edge at places, there was people taking pictures very near there.
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You got it! My son warned me & we brought winter coats but it's still cold! Back home it's 81 degrees!!! I ended up buying a hat & gloves though!! I'm the person who's always cold typically but we went to Big Sur & that hat was needed!!!
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KC'mom, we went in June and my daughter kept saying bring a jacket, but I thought, San Francisco in June no way is it going to be that cold, guess who had to buy a jacket!
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