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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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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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Started by rhonda/ship 13 div 102. Last reply by PattiP Sep 26, 2013. 9 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Anna on March 9, 2009 at 11:56pm
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Cynthia,
God Bless your sons - military branch does not matter!!!
Anna
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Comment by Debbie B. on March 9, 2009 at 8:45am
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Hi Amber:
I know what you mean about trying to honor and not smother him with advice/info. I have a little cartoon on my fridge of a mother bird trying to sit on her baby bird in the nest. The bird is saying "really Mom I'm not cold." The caption underneath is " Mothering a tough habit to shake." It is so true! How long has he been gone? My son is still in school so has not been deployed anywhere yet. Enjoy the time with him!
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Ruth,
I hope we get to hear from you for more than just 4 months!!!! :) This is just the beginning!!! You son is now a Depper. He should be attending mandatory meetings with his recruiters and going over info he needs to prepare himself for bootcamp. There are also ways as a Depper that he can make himself an E3 by the time he goes off to bootcamp. Especially make sure he memorizes the General Orders, ranks, and Sailor's Creed. The get questioned on that stuff in bootcamp.
Also, this period of time is a good time to ask any questions you have both here and to his recruiter. Don't feel shy here. Any questions that you may have that you think are strange have probably been asked and felt by thousands of other Moms!!!! That's why we're here!!!
God Bless you and your son,
Anna
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Sharon,
How exciting for you!!! I remember one time when Catherine got to make a phone call because her boots were so shiney her RDC could see himself. She was so excited about that!!! I just loved getting the phone call!!! Let's hope those next three weeks fly by for you!!!
Anna
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Amber,
How absolutely exciting for you!!!!
Anna
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Ruth,
Don't get really worried if you don't get those phone calls tho'. Sometimes they don't get to make the phone calls. Sometimes you will get a random phone call because they did something really special and their reward is a quick phone call. My daughter surprised me with two of those but I didn't get any other calls except the day after battlestations. I also didn't get a letter every Sunday from her. After graduation she told me that sometimes she just had so many other things going on on Sunday and just couldn't take the time to write. It was nervewracking for me and I was really sad when a week would go by and no letter from her - but that's all behind us now!!! It is an intense roller coaster ride that's for sure but if you stay in touch with other moms here we will all help you get through it!!!!
Anna
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Hello Ruth,
My daughter left for GL out of Cleveland. Her recruiter picked her up the day before and took her to the hotel. My husband, her twin sister and I came to the hotel later that day so we had dinner with her then went to MEPS the next day to watch her oath and all the final processing. We then went to the airport after the new recruits left MEPS and met up with her there. When her group went through the ticket counter, we asked for a gate pass to go with her. We all had to have picture ID and then got to go through security. Since her plane wasn't leaving for over an hour, we got to have some lunch with her and then waited with her until she boarded the airplane. It was sweet to be able to spend all those last minutes with her and not just have her have to go through all that waiting on her own!!!! In fact at the airport if you ask at the ticket counter for a gate pass to see off your sailor they will give you one. You just have to have ID and you have to go through the same security as the passengers do - so make sure there is nothing in your purse that wouldn't be allowed. We did this when our son came home at Christmas and got to go right to the gate with him. In fact a very sweet lady at the gate ticket counter let us go behind the counter to watch his plane until it was out of sight. She was so sweet to us - really supported our military families.
Anna
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Kathryn,
Love the pictures - both of them!!! The carrier picture does make you chuckle!!
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Amber,
That is so cool!! Isn't it amazing what our kids can do while serving our country. I know my son got to see some amazing places while on deployment. That was just so cute that he called your Mom from Euro Disney!!! Does Mickey Mouse talk with an accent????
Anna
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Linda,
You will receive a form letter from your sailor about the second week of boot camp. It will have his address (if you didn't already get it from his recruiter) and his expected graduation date.
Anna
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