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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
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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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AECF - FCs and ETs
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For families that have a loved one serving the Navy as an FC or an ET. This is the place to share and learn more about their jobs and schools. For subs - look for the SECF group.
Members: 834
Latest Activity: Feb 14, 2023
Discussion Forum
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Current A school at GL for AECF?
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Comment by CCR on May 30, 2008 at 10:54pm
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PS, did your kiddos tell you about room inspection? out of 150, only 3 passed. seems someone may have a white glove and think they are Martha Stewart, lol
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Jackie, jackie jackie, where have you been? Yeah, you are here!!! OK what is the Wisconin? I only know Barracks #'s.
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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on May 30, 2008 at 7:23pm
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Ah the Navy...constant wonderment! Nick was initially told ATT was about 10 weeks long however if he just started it this week and is due to grad June 15th - that's not many weeks at all! Based on their progress in self-paced program, I think that grad date might be a moving target.
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I love their friendly rivaltry and it exists in every rate. Nick just called I told him about the penguin - he laughed he said he seen it last night at the competition. I asked him what Cole's was ...he said he didn't know that they had a mascot (but he has only been there 3 days) then again...perhaps that is why the other ships are trying to steal it!
He got out of class at 10:30 this morning, said there were some promotions today so the instructors were part of that. He was heading back over to do some of the voluntary study this evening.
I told him that Wade only has three weeks of ATT left and I'll be anxious to see when A school starts for him and he said...I only have three weeks left as well. His targeted date of grad is June 15th...I know Wade got there well before Nick...was he on hold that long?
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oh yeah, I called our son for the first time last night @ 8 pm central time and he was in bed!! 9 hours of classes, PT, Captain's Cup competition and he had duty again today, he was wiped out.
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Great ideal Kelly - it's now the AE/CF group. I was afraid if I changed it in midstream it might mess folks up but it's done now.
Jackie - glad that you caught up with us. Our son started ATT on Tuesday and is liking the classes but he also mentioned the "voluntary" evening sessions which he was planning on doing soon. Our son is on the Cole.
LynnDear - your son and CCRs are in the same building. She made me laugh earlier - if we put these two buildings together, we would have Cole Porter!
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We heard from our son twice yesterday cuz it was my husbands birthday. I called Patrick to tell him to call back and wish him HB! I forgot it myself last year. I'm a baaaaad girl.! Too much on my plate I guess.
He told me that his ATT is morning classes instead of the night classes like the seamanship. Also, they have (quote unquote )VOLUNTARY TRAINING CLASSES to attend now. He goes to those too. Apparently, you can volunteer to go to these classes and it is STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. So its really not voluntary, you'd be stupid not to go, right? So I guess he is going all day to classes now. I told him, what else are you gonna do? Get it over with, its no different than when he worked 2-3 jobs at one time.
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Welcome Millye - mom of our first daughter in the AE/CF group!
We're talking ET here!
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Oh Kelly, the rumors, the rumors. Nick is also hearing some of these things but like you say until it it is official - truck on. Our son is so easy going that he will deal with whatever the situation - now his dad? He might be the one to pout!
He also had a one week hold before SCC so he was delighted when there was no hold going into ATT. Hoping we will hear from him tonight, he was rushed and tired last night when he called but anxious to let us know that school started and he moved.
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He started ATT! Said he did three days of school ...in one day (it is self paced). In the same day, he had duty, started school, moved to his new building and got to clean the building. He was tired but was excited about the class and the content was interesting for him right from day one!
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