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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
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Comment by denise on May 28, 2012 at 10:22am
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congratulations beatriz to your sailor and you - apparently its not easy!
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Comment by Annette GM3 Mom on May 28, 2012 at 10:10am
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@ beatrizm- Congratulations to your Sailor. I know you are one proud momma right now.
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Comment by beatrizm (Ship04 Div192) on May 26, 2012 at 11:18pm
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OOPS, that should have been GM3 Moore. Hate it when the fingers get away from me late at night....
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Hello All, my daughter just got word she passed her petty officer exam. She is nw GME Moore!
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Dawn, you are absolutely right, he will not believe you. But you could have a private conversation with his recruiter and fill him in on what your son is telling you. My daughter got interested on her own, we talked about it extensively before she signed on (this was not anything I would have expected of her), and after the first couple of months as DEP, she was seriously slacking off. But her recruiter wanted her, and he helped motivate and push her, even to the point of sending her off to boot camp 3 months earlier than originally planned. Those recruiters are good, and helpful if you have a child who starts slacking.
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Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on May 24, 2012 at 4:20pm
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It doesn't matter what branch of the service a kid joins, there is a time of doubt during boot camp/basic training. He's signed a contract, so he can't just come home! By the time you get the letter that he's regretting it, he's over it. Recruits are torn down to build them back up into sailors. All you can do is send letters every week, every few days if you wish, to encourage him. You can send pictures, cartoons, news from home, funny cards. Long ago a recruiter told me that he doesn't belong to me anymore, he belongs to the Navy. They will make him a son to be proud of--not that you aren't proud now, but just wait! At PIR, he'll have the grad "swagger" and you can smile when you see it.
My son hated school for the most part, hated the jobs he had. The Navy is absolutely the BEST thing that happened to him and us! He's grown into a confident man, proud of his accomplishments in the Navy. Look at the long term, not the next few months. :)
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Comment by dawnl Ship 03 DIV 018 on May 24, 2012 at 2:49pm
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that is good to know...but even if itell him the grad was messing with him he will never believe me! tonight we have family night with our recruit office so maybe i will have his recruiter tell him different! oh no....they start to regret it???? how do you handle that?? they don't let them leave do they???????? UGH! i am getting scared!
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My daughter was DEP before going in and she said the training REALLY helped at boot. They have to absorb and learn so much, and being in shape just makes everything else easier, she said. Also, they get 'award' for doing well in class and on PFT, so he doesnt really want to slack :)
She is in A school now, really likes what she is learning. This whole rate was a surprise for me b/c she never into games or weapons! Sh e just told me that they are saying its a good time to be a GM b/c there is a lot of advancement open
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And in my daughter's weekly letters (her division was only allowed to write once a week) you could see just how quickly she was maturing. The child who always flew by the seat of the pants and hated rules suddenly understood and while she did tell us about life in boot camp, never once complained and just got better and better.
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Dawn, that new grad is definitely messing with him! But he can get through it, and Ruth is right, you will see a totally new person at PIR. My daughter is a GM on the USS Tortuga stationed in Sasebo, Japan. Mshe was never much of a gamer and showed no interest in guns until she got to A school, but she loves her job.
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