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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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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.
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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DEP-Leavin' for bootcamp in December
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This group is for N4M members that have a loved one leaving for bootcamp in Dec..I will leave the year open so that even future Deppers leaving in the month of Dec of any year can join...Lets share stories, information, concerns, and questions
Website: http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet
Members: 523
Latest Activity: Oct 2, 2022
Hello everyone and welcome to the Navy!!! This Group was started for the loved one of DEPPERS leaving in the month of December (although everyone is welcome).......What year you say? Well ......any year!
If you have December ship out issues/questions etc., need specific information, (or have some to share) or just want to talk to someone that is where you are, with a Recruit leaving for and arriving in BC in December, ...then this is the place to be. :-)
Remember, don't "miss 'em while you're with them!" :) Make the most of every precious moment together before they leave. This will be a big transition for both of you! We'll be here for you every step of the way...
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Things to do in the last month before your future sailor leaves (Click on the link.)
Once your recruit has arrived at RTC, the next stop here is to join the group Boot Camp for Moms (and loved ones) Hangout and ask questions in this group until your form letter arrives.
***New news just out today (9/25/19) from the US Navy Recruit Training Command FaceBook page:
Attention families and friends of RTC: Previously, upon arrival to boot camp, recruits would box up their civilian belongings and ship it to their choice of destination. Our new procedure now has those boxes being stored locally and will be returned to the recruits the day before graduation. The new procedure went into effect this week beginning with Div. 409 in Training Group 52.
Approx two to three weeks after your recruit arrives you will receive the "Form Letter". The form letter will include their Ship# , DIV #, their mailing address, PIR date, and the Security Access Form. The Security Access form needs to be completed and sent back to your recruit ASAP. Keep this letter in a safe place, it has the information you will need.
The date that is on the form letter is the official date for your Recruit's Training Groups PIR (graduation), Things can always change for an individual Recruit (due to illness, injury, failure to pass a final test etc.)! So, we always recommend that you plan, if possible, to purchase Refundable or Exchangeable plane tickets.
After you have received the form letter, join the group for your recruits PIR. There you can ask questions about PIR, training, hotels etc.Those groups will be posted in the Boot Camp for Mom's group.
Thanks for joining us. We hope you will realize you are not alone, and will soon make new friends, plus feel supported and encouraged! :)
**It is very important that your future Sailor be physically fit prior to shipping to the RTC (these are new standards beginning 1/1/2018) and that he be able to pass an initial run test. See Navy Sets New Physical Fitness Standard to Start Boot Camp. "The initial run standard is evaluated on the 1.5 mile run of the first Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA) at boot camp. The initial run standard for male recruits will be 16 minutes 10 seconds and 18 minutes seven seconds for female recruits."
Discussion Forum
What makes December boot camp different?
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Comment by exxie on November 13, 2010 at 10:18am
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We haven't done a "home visit" and I doubt we will (or will even be offered). When we started this process, I took my nosy butt over to the recruiter's office, myself, and spent about two hours chatting and crying and chatting and giving them the third degree, and crying some more. I'm sure they thought I was a complete nut. But we've had a great relationship ever since and I am FULLY on board with my son's choice.
I have a little different situation, though, since I work for a local high school--the recruiters come to our school about once a month to actively engage kids in conversation during lunches AND we've recently been inviting them into the classrooms to address seniors and some juniors (even more fun, they bring my son as a liaison, since he knows quite a few of the kids or at least he knows their teacher-ME!). So they're getting a bit more face time with the kids via me. ;) They like to keep me happy! LOLOL!!
As for going to MEPS, hubby and I will be going for the swearing in but will not go to the airport. I'm with tls and Purplemom . . it's an important event in the process and I want The Prince to know that I value the experience as much as he does. But on the other side of the coin, the airport tear-jerky scene would just be cruel. I'm a major crybaby . . . so I think Princey will put up with me at the swearing in and then be ready for me to get the heck out. At PIR, he'll be far enough away that he won't have to be embarrassed by the "scene" I will surely make.
If y'all are at the same PIR that we attend, you will certainly be able to pick me out of the crowd by the big ball of Kleenex that will attached to my face! LOLOL!!
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Comment by Purplemom (Ship 3 Div 084) on November 13, 2010 at 9:33am
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I have no clue about the home visit. We barely ever hear from the recruiter here. Because we live overseas, my son will not process through a MEPS. We have been trying to get the recruiter to give us a straight answer as to what will happen as far as the swearing in will go. When he swore in the first time I actually had to find the officer to do it. I told my son I had to know soon if I will be required to dig up another officer or if he will be going to the recruiting station to do as then I will need to take that time off of work. All we have been told is that they will be putting in a hotel on the 14th and we have been given his itinerary for his flight on the 15th. I am actually getting a bit frustrated about the lack of info we get from the recruiter. My son has only seen him about three or four times since entering the DEP program in February and only talks to him when he makes repeated phone calls for information and finally gets a call back.
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Comment by tls on November 13, 2010 at 8:51am
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HI JTW's MOM and PURPLEMOM --- I am also planning to go to MEPS to watch my daughter swear in (complete with video camera). She has a friend who is still in high school that will be shipping next July, and she will go with us as well. The way I look at it, once the bandaid is off ... it's off. So I will spend every possible moment I have with her until her first priority becomes the Navy.
On another note ... what is this "home visit" everyone talks about? My daughter leaves on 12/8 and I haven't heard anything about that. We are relocating to Minnesota (although she'll still ship from Michigan) ... will the MN recruiter maybe be doing this at our new house? Or will we miss it completely because of the move?
I guess it's not a big deal ... I have a pretty good relationship with her recruiter here and could probably call him to ask questions --- but sure would be nice to get some "face time" with someone ...
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JTW's MOM. I would go to the MEPS and at the very least see you son take that last final step of actually swearing into the Navy. It is a huge moment for them and I am sure he would love to have you there to see it. Sometimes I don't think husbands really understand the depth of connection between a mom and her baby (they are always our babies). You can use MEPS as your Bandaid ripping off point and not go to the airport if you want to. I know I plan to watch my son swear in and be at that airport. It just so happens my stepson will fly out the same day on the same airline at almost the same time to go visit his mom for Christmas so I "have to be there", but I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
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Comment by battlebuddy on November 13, 2010 at 3:15am
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OK...good meeting today with recruiters. Yes 2 came to our home to talk to us and answer our questions. JTW's new date is 12/12/10...spend the night in the hotel that Sunday night. Will be at MEPS 12/13 most of the day...and hop a plane near the end of the day. Was told would have an address by Wednesday for him. Was told I could go to MEPS on Monday to watch him swear in and even wait at the airport with him if I wanted to. OK...I am conflicted on this one. My husband said it's like ripping a band aid off slowly....and that I should not go to MEPS....and he thinks that would be best for us both....not really sure yet how I am going to handle that day....but after the recruiters left....it hit me really hard that my son is leaving home. I don't want JTW to see "mom" upset so I hopped in the car and cried my eyes out...Feel a little better and a little worse at the same time....Please keep me in your prayers this next month as I try to spend quality time with him, not fall apart, and prepare myself for life without him being home with us. I have one month from today..... ♥
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My husband already told our son that if the opportunity to go to church is offered to take it. He told him it may be the best sleep he gets during BC. LOL!
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Comment by Lynne on November 12, 2010 at 2:04pm
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So funny, but so true and my son wanted to go to church during PIR weekend because the chaplain always pointed to the balcony and reminded the recruits that boot camp does end and someday they too would get to sit in the balcony like the sailors and my son wanted to sit in the balcony....I thought that was so funny...
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Comment by Arwen on November 12, 2010 at 1:29pm
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Let me tell you a little secret about church at boot camp.
Far more recruits go than are actually religious. Many go for what else is offered. I had an atheist friend who went for the donuts and soda that are left out on a table at the church, two items recruits can't get otherwise. There is also another, unusual attraction for recruits to go to church services.
Recruits are pretty sleep deprived, and if they choose stay in barracks Sunday and holiday mornings, the ONLY thing they aren't allowed to do is sleep. Most chaplains don't care if recruits sleep in the pews, so many choose to go to services - to sleep. There are as many snores going on in church as there are prayers, LOL.
So, if your normally non-church going recruit tells you that s/he has been going to church, don't get too excited. They may be there for the Zs.
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However on the bright side their lives are so regimented they are thrilled with any Holiday schedule...that four hours in the morning where they get to sleep till 6AM and then have church time, ironing time, and letter writing time is like gold to them...you can have Christmas at PIR...it will be okay...it will make it tougher in some ways Daysleeper...but many recruits lose track of time because each day is same as the last...except church day...so when you are writing letters don't make too big of a deal about them missing the holidays...the bigger the deal you make of it...the worse they will feel...keep your letter positive and focused on PIR and encouraging them and your belief in them...
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Daysleeper, only senior recruits (and not all of them) get the nice dinner at the Vets Hall, those in their 6th or 7th weeks, nearly ready to graduate. Junior recruits (processing through 4th week) aren't eligible.
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