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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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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:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**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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RTC Graduation

**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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Son is leaving July 7th- he is starting to check out around home.

My son is leaving July 7th and I'm having mixed emotions. I have Stage IV Breast cancer and have started more infused chemo. He is a great help to me around the house because I have fatigue and bone pain issues there is a lot I can no longer do. However, I have recently noticed he is starting to take on a " I don't give a sh$t" attitude and I think it's because he is counting down to leaving. I think between the pressure of my cancer, and this being his second time he was supposed to go to boot camp (long story, bad recruiter)that he is starting to check out. We have started to argue more and I hate doing that because I want his last few months at home to be fun and memorable. but its starting to get rough! We are even arguing over dumb things like doing his laundry and cleaning trash out of his room, conversations we should not be having at 23 years old. Ugh!

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Permalink Reply by anasazigypsy on March 26, 2015 at 2:11am
Sorry to hear of your struggles, but it does sound like the normal process of separating from parents/ home. If everything was perfect, why would they ever want to leave ? So they have to make it imperfect to give them that boost of motivation/justification to begin their adult lives. Hard on us though :( Just try and build in those special memories as best you can to hold onto when he is in boot camp, and you have limited contact with him. If you are like me, you will even miss the arguments. Best of luck with your health issues.
Permalink Reply by kvonavymom(Kellie) on June 28, 2015 at 2:34pm

I know exactly the feeling your describing. My son has a "tough guy " checked out of life attitude that has come about recently and I had attributed it to him leaving. Maybe its a coping method for not being upset about leaving...

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