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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.
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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:
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**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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Latest Activity: May 23, 2023
Discussion Forum
Dive school graduation
Started by hvmom. Last reply by WaterRetriever May 30, 2021. 5 Replies 1 Like
Dive School in Panama City
Started by OregonNavyMom. Last reply by Robert May 29, 2017. 6 Replies 2 Likes
EOD @ Eglin
Started by jlb228. Last reply by Karenlee Nov 2, 2015. 10 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Karenlee on August 5, 2015 at 8:14pm
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To you all that have sailors blowing things up- wait till they get into the bomb suit. My son still enjoys blowing things up. I always tease him around the 4th of July and ask him if they are going to let the EOD guys put on the fireworks display but he said they won't let us- ha ha. For Christmas we bought him a small EOD doll that was in the bomb suit, he loved it. Hope everyone has a great weekend.
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Comment by prayermom on August 5, 2015 at 4:09pm
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Ha Ha, I got the same comments about blowing things up. Pretty exciting week.
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Comment by Eagle on August 5, 2015 at 3:39pm
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yes, that would be my son who spent last week blowing up things, according to him
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Comment by navyarmymom on August 5, 2015 at 12:07am
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NavyMom. I'm sorry I have taken so long to respond. It's been a hectic few weeks. Anyway, I meant EOD underwater at Eglin AFB (after finishing surface EOD). I was wondering if anyone else has someone in that class which started on July 17.
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Comment by WAnavyfiance on July 23, 2015 at 8:14pm
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NJNavyMom and Karenlee thank you so much!!
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My son had gradation day and the weekend with us. He had to be back at night, every night. We were just so happy to see him, we didn't care!
Good luck!⚓️⚓️⚓️
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Hi everyone!
My fiancé just got to bc on Monday. He is EOD and will be going to the dive prep stage right after bc. I'm trying to figure out if he will have liberty after PIR or if he is one of the sailors who has to move over to the Great Lakes base right away? Do they get any liberty that weekend, Saturday & Sunday, or is it just a little bit of time on Friday? Any info helps!
Thanks!
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When my son was in EOD training I found a lot of information about it on the Internet, most from the Navy. My son wasn't that forthcoming! The Eglin training was tough but he made it through. Many did not.
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Thanks Addy62 & NJNavyMom. My son has until the end of Sept yet to finish in Panama City. So he's got a while yet. Praying he makes it through this tough training. So far so good and he loves it. What is the next step after dive school? I try not to ask too far ahead with him and just let him stay focused on the present task.
Appreciate any info.
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Thanks Audry! Jlb228, my son, as well as many others, also had ear issues. It's not uncommon.
My son hasn't been deployed yet, but Audry said it all perfectly.
My email address is: marsha.schwartz@gmail.com
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