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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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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

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Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

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RTC Graduation

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

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So my husband left for bootcamp last Monday and my heart literally hurts because of it. People keep telling me that it will get easier and I'm waiting for it to but to me it keeps getting harder. Don't get me wrong I am super proud and excited for my husband to be doing this and I know that it is just as hard if not harder for him to be away from me and our two boys and being a Navy vet. My self I know what he is going through and I think that makes it hard for me. I'm hoping to get his form letter soon and maybe once we can write back and forth it'll help. But any advice or prayers will be welcome.

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My husband has been at RTC since 1/25. He is still there due to injury. It got easier after we got a phone call and letter. Then it gets emotional again close to PIR. Hang in there. ❤️
If from your handle saying NukeSpouse truthfully no it does not get harder. My husband went into boot camp and graduated last March and went to nuke school and still is in nuke school. Nuke school is very hard and very long. I see my husband in bed that's about it and the weekends as he's in school all day and some days late night. It's extremely physical and demanding. It's harder then boot camp. They get inspected everyday there uniforms everything and the structure is much more intense. My husband has lost 24 bodies since he join nuke school last year they drop out or get kicked out and go into something else. Just be your husbands rock like I am to mine.
Thank you for your replies and it's mainly just being apart from him that is the toughest... and I am being his rock as much as I can be I just am hurting and I can't let him know and make it tougher on him
I was a complete mess when my fiancé left for the Navy almost 3 weeks ago but it has gotten easier! I started to receive letters and he called me today! Definitely keeping busy helps the time go by faster! Praying for you and your family!

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