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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
...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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**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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it is good to know there is someone else waiting at their mailbox with me! i'll be sure to let you know as soon as i hear something and if you ever need to talk i'm here. i'm doing better than i expected but sometimes it just hits me. but i'm smiling, Oct 28th gets closer every day :)
Dont worry you should be getting a letter soon if you havent already, when my husband left last year for boot he left december 15th and i didnt get a letter till after xmas. And since you are just his gf you wont get the family intro packet. My husband was able to send that to me and it had a spot for him to write a short message. Also the first 14 days after they get there they are on complete lock down, that is the 14 days that they process, through medical, they get their issues of clothing and personal hygeine items, and everything they are going to need for the next 9 weeks. That is why boot camp is 9 weeks, 1 week of processing and 8 of training. And the others are right he is only allowed to write on sundays although my husband would stay up and write me at night so that he was able to send a couple letters at a time. Also if there is a major holiday in between the letters get pushed back because there is no mail. But try to write him everyday. And if that doesnt help get a journal to write everything that you want to tell him, stuff you would tell him if he was here. And when he does good in his testing and everything then his unit will get awarded to go to ricky heaven, that is a place where they can used phone cards to call anyone they want and relax.
Trust me it is going to be hard, my husband and i were married for a week and 1/2 before he took off and so it was especailly had to get used to him not being around but writing him is going to help. And it is especially important for him because he is in an enviroment of people he is just getting to know so the letter you write are his main support. And helps once you figure out when you should be getting a letter during the week to make time go by quicker becuase every week you will look forward to the day you get his letter in the mail. You start to develop a pattern and it makes the time go quicker and then before you know it it will be time for his graduation. You can send him pictures two.
Hope this helps.
Wife of SA Kessinger.
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