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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
...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
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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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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The 1st Navy Admiral...
Farragut was born July 5, 1801, at Campbell’s Station, near Knoxville, Tenn. He entered the Navy as a midshipman at age 9 and first saw combat at age 11.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Farragut had a difficult decision to make. He was born in Tennessee, raised in Louisiana, and lived in Virginia, yet he felt more devoted to the country he had served for more than five decades.
He decided to join the Union.
Farragut was in command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron aboard the sloop of war Hartford when he took the port of New Orleans in April 1862 during a decisive Civil War battle, according to Naval History and Heritage Command.
On Aug. 5, 1864, he won the Battle of Mobile Bay — during which he famously uttered “Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!” — passing through heavy minefields as well as heavy opposition batteries in Forts Morgan and Gaines to defeat the Confederate squadron. Farragut became a national hero, and the newly restored union created the rank of admiral for him.
He died Aug. 14, 1870.
Five ships have borne the name Farragut: a torpedo boat commissioned in 1899; a Clemson-class destroyer commissioned in 1920; a 1,365-ton destroyer commissioned in 1934; a ship commissioned in 1960 that was first a frigate, then a destroyer; and a destroyer commissioned in 2006.
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES
David Farragut, the Navy’s first admiral, began his military career at age 9.
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Permalink Reply by CCR on
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I love this. I bought 3 books in San Diego.
The Navy in San Diego
North Island
and I think aviation in San Diego which I loaned to my dad as I left Conroe. He will be reading all 3 eventually since they are chock full of pictures.
Remember Mary when I bought the RTC book in Great Lakes at the museum west of Great Lakes? It chronicles recruit training command from the inception. -
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Permalink Reply by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on
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Nice, we should look on Ebay for some old books. When we met MCPON West recently, his son is a diver and thoughtful Ellen brought him an old book on Navy divers that he truly appreciated.
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