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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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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.
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Discussion Forum
Care packages for new graduates (a school)
Started by Cali's mama. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Mar 19, 2021. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Looking for current information for my daughter on what's allowed for care packages..idk if it matters that she is in the great lakes location or not..ship 7 div 136...lonely mom with confused tears lol
Bootcamp arrival Sept 8, 2020??
Started by Stephanie0725. Last reply by Shoosh Oct 5, 2020. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Hello! Got the call that my daughter made it to bootcamp quarantine last night 09/08/2020. Looking for other moms out there on the same timeline. Sadie is my baby, only daughter, and only child in the military. I think I am going to need lots of…Continue
PIR DATE: December 13, 2019
Started by Donita. Last reply by Donita Nov 5, 2019. 5 Replies 0 Likes
Anyone else’s recruit have a PIR date ofDecember 13, 2019?Continue
Arrived at boot camp October 2nd
Started by Donita. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Nov 5, 2019. 26 Replies 1 Like
Hey everyone- my daughter left for boot camp October 2nd. I missed a call from her last Friday telling me that her graduation is December 13th. I feel like the worst mom in the world for missing her call. Really didn’t expect her to call so soon but…Continue
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Comment by Jesmom6 on December 4, 2017 at 6:29pm
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Anyone have a recommendation for a wallet for my daughter? I don't want to get her one that isn't right. Thanks!
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Comment by Anna on December 2, 2017 at 10:48pm
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Smidgee,
Oh I'm so jealous!!! San Diego will always have a special spot in my heart - I was stationed there back in the 70s!!!! And to have your girl and other sailors!!! Joy!!!
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Congratulations to your daughter Smidgee!!! So happy that you are able to be there for her graduation!! So where is she headed after A school??
Thank you Ladies, I will pass all the congrats on to Jenn!! The thing about her getting certified, that she was so excited about, was that, as some of you know, Jenn was med down for almost two years because of a thyroid issue. Since she was cleared to return to work, she has worked her butt off to get both CISO and Mission Commander and to catch up to her peers!!! She has qualified for both quicker than anyone else in the squadron!! Because she is done so quickly she was told they would move up her date to transfer to the training squadron as an instructor. The guys she originally started with are all moving on to their next assignments and she would be moving up right along with them. But just this week the XO decided that he was going to make her wait for her original transfer date of 2019 instead of this spring. She was so looking forward to being done with all the deployments and move on to something new. Now she has to wait a whole year!!! All that work basically didn't reward her with anything!!! Oh well, we know she did it!!!
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Comment by spyder013 on December 1, 2017 at 7:48am
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Congratulations Jenn!
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Comment by JayDee659 on December 1, 2017 at 6:20am
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Anna that is awesome! Congratulations! I know how proud you are!
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Well Ladies, she did it!! Officer daughter passed her check ride and qualified for Mission Commander. Now when they take flight she is charge of the entire mission!!! However, on a disappointing note for her - she was told she was getting her request for orders to the training squadron to become an instructor. She really wants this as her shore tour but her XO wants her to extend in her current tour for another year. She was looking forward to being done with all the deployments but now she has to wait until 2019!!! In the meantime, she will start on her Master's Degree. Oh well - - needs of the Navy!!!!
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krikris thanks for the insight. I have been sharing all of this valuable information with my daughter. Hopefully she listens to us Moms! As far as the "box", I have been through this before with my son. Only now the mail system where we live is much better than where we lived when he was in boot camp. I'm home every day and I can see when the FedEx delivery truck is pulling in. Poor man....lol
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Comment by krikris on November 30, 2017 at 1:00am
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Jesmom6 - My DD just arrived at RTC, as far as feminine products go, she took as much as she could fit into a quart size Ziploc. Her “time” was imminent. Considering we got her box today and that bag wasn’t in it, she got to keep what she brought.
On that note - Be sure to emphasize to your SRs to mail the box to an address where someone is at because it needs to be signed for. In spite of thorough discussions with DD to send the box to our work, she still addressed it to the house where there is no one to sign for delivery now that SHE is gone. :P After 30+ minutes with FedEx on the phone last night we were able to have the box delivered to our work. Yes, we could have signed the door tag for redelivery, but then it would be sitting on the front porch and we didn’t want her valuables stolen (phone, charger, clothes etc.). Lots of explaining that there was no way to contact the “shipper” to make the change and having to go up the ladder finally to an advocate, who fortunately understood our plight and approved the change. All said and done, our “Kid in a Box” arrived today. She is truly in the Navy now. :)
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JayDee,
That's a funny stocking stuffer!!! I should get that for my sailor son!!!!
Jesmom6,
Glad you got answers from these wonderful ladies!! My daughter was prescribed birth control after she got to bootcamp to help with cramps but I didn't know the rules for those that are already on it!!
ShawnMom,
Isn't it sad how even in this day and age, medical and bootcamp officials don't understand women's issues!!! It has nothing to do with getting pregnant in these cases!!!!
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ShawnMom thanks for the heads up. Her recruiter is female. She's going to contact her and see what to do. I feel bringing what she needs is the right path
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