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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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RTC Graduation

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

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Comment by AH on September 16, 2010 at 12:58pm: allybelle, from what I hear, wives are allowed and I am sure encouraged to go down to Pensacola. From here on out, you are on no schedule of how long you will be at anyone place. It is all up to the Navy.

Comment by snowmc on September 16, 2010 at 12:57pm: Hi allybelle:

Yes, wifes are allowed to join their husbands in Pensacola. Is your husband pilot or NFO? That will determine how long they will be stationed there. Good luck with OCS...seems like it takes forever, but then its done and you move on to the next thing!

Comment by allybelle on September 16, 2010 at 12:32pm: Hi ladies. :) I just found this goup and I am really excited to get to know you all. My husband is currently at OCS and is planning on going to p'cola after graduation. My question was "do you know if they allow wives to join them in p'cola?"

Comment by MrsKH on September 15, 2010 at 8:45pm: Rosemarie, My son graduated OCS on May 28th. He was ordered to report to Pensacola immediately. I think he had 4 days to travel. If he took longer than that they took it off his leave that he had accumulated while he was in OCS. After arriving in Pensacola he was in a hotel for 10 days or so until he got an apartment. He had no prior flying experience so he did have to do IFS. I think he started that about 3 weeks after arriving. He had to commute to Mobile for his training. After passing that he might have had a week or two off and then he started API, which he will complete either this week or next. He had a meeting yesterday where they told him about the likelihood of doing most of his primary in El Centro. This is all so much different than we were expecting. I was planning to visit him in Florida this fall, but that is no longer an option since he won't be there.

Comment by Rosemarie on September 15, 2010 at 5:14pm: What is API?

Comment by Rosemarie on September 15, 2010 at 2:13pm: To MrsKH---Your son graduated on May 30 and was in Pensacola on June 1...Is that right? My son was under the impression that he might have to wait a few months before he starteded training. When in OCS was you son told when he was to report to Florida? Did he have any flight experience already? My son starts OCS Oct 3. Getting to the final countdown. If all goes well he will graduate Jan 7---with a Christmas break thrown in. I do believe he can fly home for the break. I hope so--especially if he starts training as soon as your son did!

Comment by PattyM on September 15, 2010 at 10:38am: Hi all! We're leaving Sacramento today, heading to Jacksonville for Tracy's winging on Friday! Can't wait for this great event! She'll be heading to Whidbey Island for 3 years, so we'll finally have her on the West Coast after almost 4 years active duty so far :-) Pictures to follow!!!

Comment by MrsKH on September 15, 2010 at 6:48am: Hi everyone, usually I just read along without posting. I thought I would give an update on my son's training. He arrived down in Florida the first of June. He went into IFS within a few weeks and upon completing that, he went immediately into API. He has one or two weeks left in API. The current score needed to pass is 94%. My son said there are guys who had been commercial pilots before going in the Navy who have not made it through API. He was just told that right after finishing API he will begin primary flight training in Corpus Christi and after a few weeks he will go to El Centro, California. When he was at OCS he was expecting that he would have some down time once he got to Florida, but it has not turned out that way. The backlog seems to have cleared up pretty quickly.

Comment by AH on September 14, 2010 at 6:12pm: Lynn, yes I know - you beat my son's school 52-7. Ouch. Good thing he went there for Aerospace Engineering and not Football, huh?

Comment by AH on September 14, 2010 at 3:48pm: James - good luck to your DS. That was the hardest 48 hours I lived through up until that time. The next was carrier quals and now deployment. Arghhh.