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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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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.

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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:

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RTC Graduation

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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November 2010 Boot Camp

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New moms providing support along the way for their son/daughter starting boot camp in Nov 2010

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Latest Activity: Nov 18, 2011

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Comment by Cat(Mom of an AO) on November 24, 2010 at 11:39am: LOL Bonnie, what spirit. I wish all of you the same. Enjoy your holiday. I have so much to be thankful for and this site in one of them.

Comment by Tamme on November 24, 2010 at 11:23am: Great idea, Bonnie. I have to admit if I was in the area, I sure would try it. LOL Thanks for your wonderful message and have a great Thanksgiving. This site is a Godsend.

Comment by Cat(Mom of an AO) on November 24, 2010 at 10:02am: Love the article and thanks for the offical PIR date. I have joined already and am looking forward to day I get to hug my sailor.

Comment by nascarnov on November 24, 2010 at 9:19am: Blessedsailorsmom, that was a great article! Thanks for sharing it!

Comment by Lynne on November 24, 2010 at 1:09am: Okay y'all I told you as soon as I figured out what PIR group you were in I would let you know...well...guess what I think I know...so if you have a recruit in divisions 49, 50, 51, 52 then here is your PIR group...now there may be more divisions than that but these I am pretty darn sure about...lol

http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir12111

You won't have gotten rid of me though...I will be in and out of that group as well. Be sure and join that group...so we can wait for phone calls, watch what will be happening week to week, anticipate battlestations and all the other things that go along with boot camp. See you there.

Comment by Alysia-Redsmom (VQ-4/ATO) on November 23, 2010 at 9:47pm: thanks for sharing the article blessedsailorsmom!

Comment by blessedsailorsmom ship12div 039 on November 23, 2010 at 8:30pm: Comment by Karla~ (S 12 D 042 - PIR 1/14) 2 hours ago
NSGL posted a link to this newspaper article on facebook. It made me feel a little better. Here's the main part of the article:

While hundreds of sailors will be Thanksgiving Day dinner guests off the Navy base, Great Lakes will serve more than 2,000 service members from noon to 3 p.m. Thursday.

More than 50 USO of Illinois volunteers will serve a buffet-style feast of turkey and stuffing, potatoes, vegetables, beverages and holiday pies and cakes, and with the help of the Great Lakes Morale, Welfare and Recreation Department, give them a sense of being “home away from home.”

“When the sailors arrive at the USO/MWR Thanksgiving Dinner, they’re served far more than excellent food,” said Ross Docksey, USO of Illinois chairman and CEO. “Each sailor is personally welcomed by a USO volunteer who thanks the sailor for his or her service. Dinner is served by smiling volunteers, all of whom are dedicated to ensuring that the sailors have a wonderful Thanksgiving.”

Comment by Cat(Mom of an AO) on November 23, 2010 at 10:57am: Trying to. I joined the PIR 1/21/10 group in the meantime

Comment by Lynne on November 23, 2010 at 10:55am: I am thinking you may be getting that form letter this week although it may a bit delayed because of Thanksgiving...hang in there....

Comment by Cat(Mom of an AO) on November 23, 2010 at 10:15am: OMG! Nascarnov!! I found someone in the same div. WOW! I did not hear when PIR is but I keep checking on http://www1.netc.navy.mil/nstc/rtcgl/upcoming_grads.asp to check and see. I guess I am to early. I'm hoping to get the info in the mail anyday now. As soon as I do I will reach out to you. If its not the 14th then it should definately be the 21st.

DebBon, you never know. We all seem to be off by only one or two in Div. Glad you got the address. I have been mailing my son a letter for everyday he has been gone.