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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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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).
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**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.
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how to prepare
Hi:) I'm so glad that my husbands recruiter told be about this site, I have found out more information on here then I have from the recruiter,well my question today is how much preparation is needed before my husband leaves, and what are all my options afterwards, when my husband goes, I will be able to take a personal leave of absence I dont know how long I have, but the HR department also mentioned that its also available to me to spend sometime with him before he leaves, so when should I start using this time? please help thank you so much
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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You will want to spend some time with him the evening before he goes to MEPS--he will spend that night at the hotel, probably without you--and see him sworn in the next day at MEPS before he ships to the RTC. See Things to Do in the Last Month Before Your Future Sailor Leaves for the RTC and check out the different links there.
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Permalink Reply by Arwen on
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How long do you have, and how much loss of income can you afford? I would take as much as I can, counting back from the day he reports. Two weeks may be too much together time and you could get on each others' nerves. Maybe a week?
Also, keep in mind that it is common for Navy couples to have fights before long away-assignments, be they boot camp, deployment, or even a couple of weeks at sea. It's a way of reducing the initial pain of separation, and completely subconscious. Young men hold their families at arms length, become rude and distant, and hang out with friends. Husbands may get controlling and angry, or distant and obsess on stuff like video games or some hobby. It is totally normal, and by the fifth or sixth week of bootcamp it is all forgotten, and all they want to do is to be with those people they rejected so nastily just before their departure. Then you go through it all over again the next separation/deployment.
Also, you will want to take at least four or five days to see him at the end of boot camp. You should plan to take off work the Wednesday before PIR (PIRs/graduations are almost always on Friday), travel Thursday, and be in Chicago for at least Friday night.
What school is your husband going to? If the school is in Great Lakes, plan to stay until Monday (or Tuesday if there is a Monday holiday) to be with him. You won't get to spend the night with him (he has to report back by curfew each evening) but you can spend the days together. If his school is elsewhere, then plan to head home on a late Saturday flight - that way you *might* be able to hang out with him at the airport before your flights leave.
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