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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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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

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Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

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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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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.

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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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!

 

The word is out:  the Molly's Adopt A Sailor adoption will be the crew of the USS Shoup.  Their deployment is already into its 5th month with no date of return in sight!!!

The 300 sailors who make up the crew include 60 women and 240 men.  The Mom of the Month would like to send the tastes and flavors of fall -- packaged apple goodies, pumpkin & spice treats.  They do have a wish list which I will post here in case anyone wants to supply some of those items.

We can still go ahead with our plans of home-baked Thanksgiving goodies/desserts, 'pies in a jar', Thanksgiving decorations, footballs and Christmas cards.

They will be receiving the boxes around Thanksgiving and I thought we could make that our theme since food and football to together for Thanksgiving!  If anyone has ideas about decorating the inside of the boxes, please speak up and tell your thoughts/suggestions.

We will go ahead and collect from all our friends and families their left-over, unused Christmas cards from last year.  They'll be packaged in small bundles so our adoptees will have cards they can write and send to their loved ones at home.

If anyone can think of something else along the line of Thanksgiving, football & early preparations for Christmas, please suggest them!!


The date is October 19th, beginning at 12:30 pm and lasting until we finish!  Feel free to bring a bag lunch or a cold drink.  I will have ice water, coffee and tea on hand.

 

ALSO, don't forget notes and cards wishing them a Happy Thanksgiving!!  You can consider including pictures of our foliage as it is starting to turn - it will be a reminder of the season and home for anyone from a northern state.

So Moms, let's get ready to party!!!  SHIPPING DATES WILL BE OCTOBER 21-23.

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Hi Donna, hope your well!  Still in for the packing party this Saturday at 12:30?  Anything you need me to bring or pick up?  I have 4 boxes, need more?  Let me know!  Can't wait to see you!  

I'm going to leave this as a comment, mostly a reminder for myself, but some of the rest of you may want to help out with this part.

We are going to need the "church key" type of can openners.  The kind that have the rounded end with a clip on it so they will be able to pop the lids off the pie jars.  I keep forgetting to get a few when I go out!!  Maybe this way will help me to remember??  And, maybe this way we'll have more than just a couple?  :)

I'm going to venture to say that we really don't need to be worrying about sending along "church keys". 

These are US Sailors we are dealing with and I would bet my bottom dollar they will get those jars open!

Does everyone know how to get to my house??

If not send me a friend request (if we aren't "friends" already) and I will PM the info to you.  And, if we are "friends" send me a PM just to let me know you need directions.

Can hardly wait until Saturday!!

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