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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.
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.
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**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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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"There is lots to learn before coming to NNPTC." This link will give you much needed info:
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In the event of an emergency within the sailor’s family, where you feel the sailor must be notified and considered for Emergency Leave, you must notify the American Red Cross through the national headquarters in Washington, DC (1-877-272-7337) or via their website www.redcross.org.
The time frame for each of the schools is listed under "Your Sailor's Schedule Upon Arrival to GC" to the right ------->
Here's a "Welcome New Members" link from BunkerQB with some good info: Welcome New Members
The NF Rating Information Card can be found at NF Rating Information Card. (If you get the security warning, it is safe to go there.) https://www.thebalancecareers.com/navy-enlisted-rating-descriptions-nuclear-field-3345847 has some good info for you.
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for new Nuke moms, read the doc Your Sailor's Schedule upon Arrival to GC. I just bumped it to the top of the documents.
Thank you everyone for being there! I'm in tears still most of the time and just reading what you say makes it much easier for me.
Dear Txgal-Donna, I am sorry that your son is discouraged. I am afraid many of them seem to get that way from time to time. I know that I have gone through it with my own son. All I can say is it does get better. Once A school starts he will be very busy with class. In addition, he will meet others in the same boat. Once my son started making friends he became a lot more content. Your son will settle in too. Keep telling him to hang in there because it really will get better!
Good morning to all, I'm new to all of this and am so excited that this exists. My son's PIR is August 3rd. I'm hoping someone can share how this all works after their PIR. He's so anxious to get to GC it's beyond words. Thanks for help! I feel so much better that you all are here!
Oh, I forgot the best part: I get to vacation in Charleston again!
Morning everyone!
Number two has really been sweating this one out. He ran up too many student loan debts and cannot afford to go back to school and I think he is jealous that Bink seems to have his life set. Drewdle is a more math/science based kid--he applied to the coast guard academy to study aeronatical engineering (forgive the english teacher who cannot spell) but had this small issue of never going to school and having grades that really suck! He enlisted in May but went in unassigned because he had to have waivers since he thought that NY state really didnt mean him when they gave him 10 speeding tickets--until of course they threw him in jail for the night! He just got the word the other night that he had been approved.
As for Bink, he is on his first short cruise on the Stennis. LadyLove broke up with him 5 weeks before school was out and really threw him for a loop. He ended up winning the Captain's medal for prototype but still has a hard time admitting that he deserved it. Our ROTC commander at school gave him a royal fun-based reaming concerning how a sailor who had never been on water knew more about who deserved awards than the Captain who had been in the navy for 20 years! He is getting ready for a long cruise. They are deploying to the middle east for 8 months.
I was so saddened by the news of the BS sailor who died. Takes me back to last year when Bink's roommate drowned. I hope his housemates are getting good support. Why do these kids have to think they are invincible?
Love to you all. Dor, I will never catch up unless I count myself and my brothers!
Yes, Mary, it is odd not having our boys on the same schedule. As a mom, I have kind of liked the delays, though. It means my boy is still on dry land, and presumably safer than on the water. And that time on hold still counts. My boy has been in the Navy over two years and has been on dry land the whole time! LOL
Then again, you could say I started out early getting used to delays when my son ended up being hospitalized during BC. He was there about 14 weeks total before he finally finished up, and then he was in GL in the THU on hold for another month after that before he went to GC. Delay is his middle name, I think. I'm just glad he started ELT without delay.
OMG, would you look at all those acronyms!!! :D
Blink theydo have a Christmas break and the school is shut down. My son was in Power School last Christmas and was able to come home on leave.
Does anyone know whether someone in Power school over Christmas, has any time off for traveling home?
Thanks!
Welcome Proudmom, This is truely an awesome group of support and knowledge. Post any questions about any topic and someone here has an answer.
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