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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

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**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).

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**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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ALUMNI OF PIR 04/24/2015 TG 24 - 9 Divisions (153-160, and 924)

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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 04/24/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.

Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 62
Latest Activity: Aug 6, 2015

WELCOME to PIR 04/24/2015!ROUP.

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N4M's Community GuidelinesandOPSEC.

~OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance.

~N4M’s also has Community Guidelines just like any other social media.

~Please take the time to read the OPSEC and N4M’s Community Guidelines.

~A quick note here, from the N4M’s CG’s:

• Don’t Jeopardize the Safety of Our Sailors: Remember OPSEC (Operational Security) (Don’t Sink Ships With Loose Lips) This site and all content posted on it are viewable to everyone on the Internet. This doesn’t mean you can’t share things about your Sailor – but too many details can put Sailors in harm’s way. The following are examples of red flags and should not be shared within this community either by posting or sending via a Group message:

• Sailors’ last names. This includes your username if you share the same last name as your son or daughter.

Some Suggestions:

~If your last name is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended for you to use in your username for your own personal security. This is your option. It is also not a good idea to use an email address as your username for personal security reasons.

~First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember, everyone can see it and someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture to not include your Recruit at least for the duration of BC. Again, your option

~It is also a good idea to make your settings for your Profile Page "viewable only to your friends"

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You need to be a member of ALUMNI OF PIR 04/24/2015 TG 24 - 9 Divisions (153-160, and 924) to add comments!

Comment by diannep on April 6, 2015 at 3:06pm: HA, Vivi! My son LOVES short hair---out of the Navy now, but still keeps the military cut...which has gotten him so discounts at restaurants/stores when they ask him if he is/was military!. But the most extreme cut is when they first arrive. After that, they can grow it out a little longer if they want....but many elect to keep it shorter. They say you can always tell the new SRs by how short their hair is! :-)

Comment by Brooke on April 6, 2015 at 2:17pm: Vivi, that's so funny I was wondering the exact same thing

Comment by Vivi on April 6, 2015 at 1:47pm: Good Afternoon! I thought of a dumb question for you veteran moms. By now, our Recruits should have gone back for a second haircut. Is the second one as extreme as the first haircut? Just wondering what my son is going to look like when we see him in 2 weeks and four days, not that I' m counting...;)

Comment by diannep on April 6, 2015 at 7:14am: Good Morning!

Comment by CatMom509 on April 5, 2015 at 5:55pm: Happy Blessed Easter--Resurrection Sunday!!

     "Why do you look for the Living among the dead?

       He is not here. He has risen! Remember

       how He told you, while He was still with you

       in Galilee."

                                                           Luke 24:5b-6

Comment by diannep on April 5, 2015 at 2:07pm: Yes, He is RISEN!

Ladies, there are over 5,000 SRs on RTC at a time. So you can see where it would be impossible for all to call this weekend. I know it is so hard for you not to hear from your SR on a holiday....a very special family time....but sadly, it is something to get used to because in cases of deployment, it may happen more often than not.

Having said that, I sure hope there ARE phone calls that come in today because there are divisions who will be making calls from some PIR groups! Because of church, etc in the morning, the calls on Sundays usually do not start before around 1 pm Central or later. Keep those fingers crossed!

Comment by diannep on April 5, 2015 at 2:04pm: Allie girls mom: That is the way the phone calls go....they can be told they can call again on (date) and not call; they can be told they won't get to call again for 3 weeks, and then you get a phone call a week later. It is so very random. Just keep that phone close at all times and don't try to read too much into a scheduled phone call that didn't come!

Comment by Vivi on April 5, 2015 at 12:32pm: Blessed Easter to you all! Allie, I didn't get any phone calls or mail this week, but we did get a half hour phone call last week so I'm thankful for that. Only three Friday's left!

Comment by Allie girls mom on April 5, 2015 at 12:01pm: Anyone with SR's in Division 156 hear from yours yesterday. Ours had written & said she would call yesterday and we didn't hear from her. Makes me wonder. Oh well...nothing I can do but look forward to a letter or maybe a call today? A little bummed though. Hope you all are having a Beautiful Easter Day. Because He Lives !!! I can face tomorrow. Because he lives all fear is gone. Because I know he holds the future, and life is worth the living just because he lives. He is Risen.