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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
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- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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This is for people who would like to meet other (politically and religiously) liberal people who have a loved one in the military.
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Latest Activity: Aug 16, 2023
We are also known as the Warm & Fuzzie Obama Mamas - and are proud to support our president! Agnostic - Humanist - Atheist - Jewish - Buddhist - Democratic - Independent - Christian - Deist - searching .....all peaceful peeps are welcome!
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Comment by Anti M on November 30, 2009 at 11:32am
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Spoons? Heck, even enlisted recruits get to use forks. (oh, the jokes I could make....) I guess they haven't been through "Knife and Fork" school yet. Yes, we really call it that... officers do go through etiquette classes. LOL< an endless source of amusement for lowly sailors. (and I say that with great love)
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I found this interesting, interviews with folks waiting outside a bookstore to get a signed copy of Palin's book. Hmmm. No comment.
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Wonderful, Lisa, now you'll just have to find a big ribbon to wrap yourself up in for him!
LOL on the beard, Larry says he's Santa's younger brother.
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I sewed the Mrs. Claus gown and cape myself, and made the headpiece.
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Speaking of holiday traditions, I'm looking forward to Santa Rampage in Las Vegas, I hope MyLarry can a run there that weekend so we can go. "Nothing can stop a hundred Santas". One of the rules is that you must be dressed like Santa or Mrs. Claus, or an elf or reindeer, and that if security says leave, all the Santas leave. And never, ever, ever mess with kids, be nice to the kids! Who is in charge? Santa! And we sing naughty carols in the casinos, and hand out candy canes.
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Re: batteries. Get some of the rechargeables in and a recharger to keep on hand. Most grocery stores carry them now inexpensively. We use regular and rechargeables, depends on what they get put in. Ask an ET, LOL.
I'm awake early... any time I have people coming in, I wake up without an alarm clock. Always far too early. Thanks, Navy, for that training. I'm trying to get the last minute kitchen stuff cleared away for the counter installation today. YAy! And then I have to tile the backsplash, I'm starting to get excited about that. I hope tearing apart the kitchen will jumpstart me with deep cleaning the house before winter.
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We don't do the Black Friday thing either... yes, we've dropped into stores we normally go to on Friday afternoon if we're out and about, but never that zero-dark thirty herd thing. Reverend Billy says "Stop Shopping!" There is nothing in this world at a price which would lure me into spending money like a fool in a crush of vapid bargain seekers. I'm perfectly adept at spending money like a fool on eBay and Amazon.
Seriously, there is a Reverend Billy and he Church of Stop Shopping:
http://www.revbilly.com/
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Many Americans misunderstand the Japanese custom of bowing. It is a sign of respect and not of subservience. I bowed all the time, not formally, but enough so it became habit. I bowed for several years after I returned to the States, took that long to drop the habit.
Funny story, one of my shipmates in Japan, an E-6, took karate lessons. He was a black belt and spent hours training. We had a formal inspection and recognition ceremony. He received a medal, the CO pinned it on and stepped back. My friend bowed deeply, then realized he was supposed to be saluting. Fortunately our CO had a great sense of humor and returned the bow with a salute and a handshake.
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Wow. Rush is losing touch with reality more than ever. Has he quit his drug use? Because that's the type of rambling nonsense I associate with stoners.
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My hubby just called, I thought he'd be home tonight. No such luck, he has to turn around and team drive back to Denver tonight. Maybe I'll see him tomorrow night, or Thursday morning. Good thing we didn't make big plans. I do wish he'd be here for the counter installation, but perhaps it is better that he isn't, he'd drive the contractor mad.
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