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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:
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.
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OPSEC - PERSEC & stuff.
Out of curiosity, did everybody read the section on OPSEC and PERSEC and watch the video? I am a new Navy mom, and I found it enlightening. Had to go back through my FB and IG accounts and delete hashtags and change privacy settings. I guess maybe I wasn't thinking about this as clearly as I should have. The recent shooting scared the crap out of me (and everyone else here, I'm sure).
I wanted to say thanks to the admins out there, making sure that all us proud moms are also good navy moms and we're protecting our SR's. I didn't have any clue about the cropped photos - WOW! I will be discussing that fact with my teen daughter, too! Thank you from the heart.
On a sidenote: I am feeling like a kind of bad mom, because I'm not "heartbroken" like most of you seem to be. My son is not my "baby" anymore; he's a man who made a man's choice to serve his country. I think I'm more of a baby than he is right now! I'm riding the emotional waves, tearing up and sometimes choking back the big sobs, but I'm trying to tell myself over and over that hey, the kid had to go somewhere - and this sure as heck beats the couch-surfing that his buddies are doing all Summer. I am proud, and I know that he needed to get out of my house before the man-child in him exploded and we all went nuts. He wasn't ready for 4 year university, and he knew himself. I should have been so lucky at 18!
My MarvinK left on 7/15. His first phone call actually came in 2 parts. The first one didn't mention The Box. The second? Well, it went like this: "Uh, Mom? It's me, MarvinK. I am calling you back because I failed to follow instructions the first call. You will be receiving a box . . . "
Is it wrong that I actually giggled when I hung up, even as I cried? :) My sweet MarvinK, he liked to know everything and he always thought ol' Mom and Dad were kinda dumb about making him do chores and follow instructions. Woopsie-poopsie! Truthfully, I am hoping that he's cleaning a toilet or two right about now . . . maybe I'm in the minority, judging from some of the other posts? Oh well, I miss him to bits, but I am SO thrilled that he's following his path. And if that path can include folding his own clothes and cleaning up his own dang bathroom, then so much the better!
Much love to everyone out there struggling with this; I feel you.
MarvinK's Mom
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Permalink Reply by qcnavymom on
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Marvin's Mom, thanks for the post. You made me laugh and I needed it! I feel like I can relate to you. I'm not heartbroken about his decision, but during these last couple of weeks, I've had some unexpected stress and feel more emotional about our son leaving (July 28). Yesterday I remembered some things from when he was young and it just hit me how fast the time has gone. Boo Hoo. When did your son leave? Matthew's Mom ;)
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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qcnavymom, I left info for you on your My Page.
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Permalink Reply by MarvinKMooney on
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My guy left 7/15. Be prepared: he was a BEAR the last month. Grumpy, withdrawn, and man did we suddenly all get dumber. We swept him away the last weekend to spend time together as a family, and I'll never regret doing that.
Honestly, I think it's the BIGNESS of the whole decision. It's not every day that a parent can pinpoint the exact moment that their child left a child, but returned to them as an adult. That's what I struggle with, not that he left. He left last Summer and worked for 6 weeks away - and I was fine.
Everything I've read tells me that it's totally normal for them to withdraw. It's a coping skill. And the last hug he got before he left? Well his girlfriend of 3 weeks, OF COURSE! LOLOL
Now I'm just waiting on that darn box that others already got today! :) Hugs to you and your family.
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Thanks! When we had "moments" with our stubborn boy at home, I would say those lines to him (meaning he needed to get outta my face and head for his room). Later, it was more of a joke between me and my husband about how this house ain't big enough for all of us.
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