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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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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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- Graduation Info
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If your sailor is a Hull Tech report here
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Discussion Forum
Hull Tech training
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Comment by HisMom on August 18, 2011 at 4:55pm
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Sheila...My son is a HT fresh outta A school and just 3 days on his ship. He has unclogged 2 toilets (one took almost 6 hours of working in not so nice stuff) Is that where the expression "poop deck" came from? makes sense! Anyway he has also fabricated two things out of materials hung over the edge of the ship to weld, sanded paint and these are the things he remembered to tell me about. He is working on average 10 hours a day. Oh and while he waited for his ship to come into port he drove around Command Staff. I asked him if it was what he expected it to be and he said "yup". So I guess your son will have a good idea of what he will be doing as well.
Oh and he got his nick name already which I won't repeat on here. He was a little embarrassed to tell it to his MOTHER.
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Comment by SheilaD on August 18, 2011 at 10:10am
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My son leaves for BC on the 24th of August, 2011! He is nervous! He is a hull technician. I don't really know too much about what that entails, but I guess we'll find out soon! I think his PIR should be on or around the 18th of October, correct?
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Comment by bobbie (ht mom) on August 1, 2011 at 5:42pm
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you are great thx elanel
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Comment by Elane on August 1, 2011 at 3:30pm
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@bobbie (ship03/div250)
PIR was 4 years ago (almost) so let's see how much I think I remember. After the 2-3hr ceremony of PIR, the new sailors met with their families, briefly then had to be out of the boot camp dorms by a certain time maybe 330/430ish, then they were allowed to go on liberty, mine got the weekend off. I drove up so I had lots of his "civie" stuff which I moved to his new "ship"/dorm area the next day. The 1st thing I think he wanted after graduation was his cell phone back. :) Poor kid, I think he was coming down with a cold so he really just wanted to sleep! but I had a room with a kitchenette in it so managed to bring/buy some stuff to make his favorite food for him and the rest of the family that got to come see him. He just had to be back I think 930PM ish on the Sunday. good luck with yours, hope this info helps.
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thx elanel..... so hopefully not longer than 12 weeks then lol yes just got thru booking my flight and already got my rooms ...staying from that sat to that mon morning ....he told me unless he has wtach he will get to spend the weekend with us but one question??? after pir how long did it take him to get to his liberty that fri ? and did he move to the A school after pir? anddd lol did you get to leave his civis stuff with him b4 you left? thx again for the help
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@bobbie (ship03/div250). Congrats on the PIR. Hope you get the chance to go see it. Mine was granted the weekend off as the Hull Tech A school was in GL. Some are on what they call "grad and go" where they only get to spend a few hours before they are shipped to the area of their next school. when my HT son went through A School it was somewhat varied in time as some of the classes are go at your pace. He PIR'd in early October and was on his assignment/ship in March. He tried to go at a decent pace, some of the classes they have to wait for the class to start or get enough people for the class, etc. So it's hard to actually say how long the class will take for him.
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hi again lol my son`s pir is this fri yeah been a long 2 months lol he was tlling me he didnt know how long his A school was gonna be somewhere from 45 days to 12 weeks can someone pls help me thx
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Comment by angie martin on July 8, 2011 at 11:33pm
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Thanks I'm soo excited and proud can't wait
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Hi u all my daughter will PIR July 22 yeah! Ship 11 division 234 and her rating is a hull tech does anyone know of girls as HT's
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My sailor has been assigned to the USS BonHomme Richard
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