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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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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life at DLI
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Comment by DNavyFamily on February 5, 2016 at 3:28pm
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By the way- great to see so many people participating here!
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We shipped all her civilian clothes in numerous small boxes over time after the first few weeks and they got there, too. It seems the weakest link is on flat cards and letters- and those are what often count the most. JHubby nailed it too on their schedule- we even write in our CTI2B's language (thanks Google Translate!!!!!) about family, friends, and to offer support so that is disappointing when those don't arrive.
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It's not just mail that doesn't mesh with class schedules. Everything on base closes at 1600 or 1630 (which means 1600, apparently). PT 3 days a week at 1615, plus the time it takes to walk everywhere leaves hardly anytime to even get to the buildings after class. Because of this, lunch time is the only time to go to admin/mail/legal/TO so you're there with the rest of the base!
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Comment by Lisa (A-Mac's mom) on February 5, 2016 at 1:56pm
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I didn't mean to imply anything negative about the AD individuals manning the mail centers. In fact, on one base on which we lived the post office was staffed by postal employees. Yet, we had the exact same problems. At the Air Force Academy, the post office is staffed by postal employees. Yet, my other son has the same problems. The short hours is one of the main issues.
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AND they will forward your mail PROPERLY to your next command. Once you left a command and like Lisa said- it's a military mail handing thing- you were really lucky to get any mail forwarded to your next command.
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On a positive note, we are considering getting ours an UPS Store or something mail box where they can get packages after hours and weekends and RELIABLY. When I was active duty and stationed stateside, I always got one single or married- they were far better about getting things set aside, never missed a signature delivery. Also, its a good place for them to do any power of attorney paperwork since most have a notary, make copies and things like help selling a car back home, college/high school transcripts, etc.
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I concur with Lisa when I was active duty, too! I hate to be biased but the individuals who go Navy Storekeeper or Mail Clerk (the actual rate escapes me now) aren't known for their high ASVABs or motivation. Nuff said.
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During our CTI's time at DLI, his schedule did not mesh with the mailroom schedule at all. Packages would languish for long periods of time before he ever had an opportunity to pick them up. Some were never received by him. Honestly, this is an issue military-wide. Every time we lived in on-base housing it was virtually the same thing. My son at the Air Force Academy has the same issues.
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You can send flowers via UPS but must be the kind simply shipped in a box (1-800 flowers does that I recall) but you cannot send arrangements in a vase. Plus you have to let your CTI2B they are being delivered- you can't surprise them so to speak- all mail and UPS/FedEx goes to their Caffrey Rd mail receiving quarterdeck and is stowed until the person goes to check in with the mail petty officer and the hours are not always friendly. 75% of the time they miss getting a chance to go by and pickup mail or boxes due to class schedules not meshing with mail hours and there are no weekend pickups. HOWEVER, I hope someone can pipe in with anything different or new because our CTI2B said they just replaced the mail petty officer or something to that effect. I know we've had concerns because two very plain, no valuables or check filled letters have not been received. I'm almost about to call the command- that is one thing that is sacred to our service members whether students or deployed- you do NOT impede the mail. Sorry- had to vent.
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Comment by MlsinOH on February 1, 2016 at 10:27am
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Hello fellow navymom - My daughter graduated Great Lakes January 2015 and I got her a CTI challenge coin from navy outfitters. Here is the website:
http://www.navyoutfitters.com Search for cryptologic. They also have a great lakes challenge coin.
You can have them engraved.
Keep those letters coming. They look forward to mail call so much. I had a schedule made so that everyday someone was supposed to send her a piece of mail. Since calls were few and far between it really helped her connect to home, especially since she missed Christmas. Good luck!
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