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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.
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- Graduation Info
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- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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If your sailor is a Hull Tech report here
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Latest Activity: Oct 25, 2019
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Comment by SheilaD on March 30, 2013 at 9:55am
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HT A schooll is at Great Lakes, so after PIR they will switch over to the other base and then they have liberty. After A school, my son was sent to his assignment in San Diego. He came home for 10days in between, which was great! He still has C school coming, but not til after deployment, he says. Enjoy the whole process - kind of like a rollercoaster!
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Julie - My son is HT on the USS Boxer. He's been there since March 2012.
Nancy - HT-ATF is Hull Technician, Advanced Technical Field, which I believe refers to the additional schooling they will be doing (C school). He signed on for additional time to get that rate. He hasn't gone to C school yet - he was told that he would not go until after his first deployment. Navy time!
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Comment by Mamma Marsha on March 19, 2013 at 10:40pm
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Just found this group!
My son graduates BC 3/22/13 and is an HT
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Comment by Julie on March 12, 2013 at 5:42pm
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Does any one have a HT on the USS Jason Dunham?
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opps - his PIR was 10/21/11!
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Hi, Nancy! Welcome! Check out my post to TInat, a bit earlier on this page. My son had PIR on 20/21/11 and is HT. He is aboard the USS Boxer, an LHD-4, in San Diego now. I met another woman in his HT shop - she was really nice and seemed happy to be HT.
Write to your daughter every day - it helps them get through bootcamp, feeling like you are with them throught it all - even though they can't write nearly as often. Is she HT-ATF?
Soon, you'll get your 'salior in a box' and then the form letter - then you'll have her address/ship and can send those letters! Time goes fast before bootcamp and then each week of bc seems to go so slowly, as you wait for letters and news of how they are doing. Enjoy!
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Hi Nancy,
Not premature at all! My son doesn't leave for bootcamp until late June and he will be a Hull Tech as well. I've been reading as much as possible since he enlisted in DEP, so I will be more prepared on what to expect. My thoughts and prayers are with you! I know you are missing her terribly. The people on this site are absolutely amazing. Look at it this way...one week down.... You'll have to remind me of that when it's my turn!
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Tinat- check out the discussion group called 'Bootcamp Moms' - great source of info regarding bootcamp and beyond - many of your questions will be answered right there!
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Hi Tinat! Welcome! Bootcamp is tough for the recruits and a roller-coaster ride for you! He'll get through it and be a better man for it at the end! Write to him everyday, even before he leaves, but no stickers or anything silly on the envelopes!
My son did A school in GL, so we got to spend the whole PIR weekend with himj, after he moved over the the other side of the base. He enjoyed A school and really likes being HT. He is stationed on the USS Boxer, in San Diego and having fun. Just made E4 and he's HT3 now. Very proud mama!
He is HT-ATF, which means that at some point, he will be heading to C school, for further training for HT.
Any questions - i will do my best to answer, or maybe another, more experience Navy Mom can help. July 10th will come very soon!!
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Comment by Tinat (Ship 02 Div 943) on February 25, 2013 at 2:18pm
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Hi. New here! My son starts boot amp on July 10th. He will be a HT. any advise? Any info? Anything is appreciated!
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