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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)
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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).
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**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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*******BATTLESTATIONS*****
This is the final test for your SRs. After this, they graduate and are sailors! It is a 12 hr overnight drill, testing them on all they have learned and may encounter while deployed on a ship. It takes place on the USS Trayer, a Disney-created very realistic ship that allows them to be tested in all situations. They head over to the ship in the evening, and conclude in the morning with their capping ceremony. During this, they will trade their "Recruit" caps for their "NAVY" caps. A very emotional time for these sailors who have worked so hard! Later in the afternoon, you should receive your "I'm a Sailor" call...usually starting around 2 pm GL time and going for a good while (but could start a little earlier or later, so phones ready all day!). If your sailors doesn't call, it could be that he/she had watch and will call the next day. Please ask if all in the division passed and post that on the board for others!
Teamwork is the name of the game. They are divided into small groups and are evaluated as team members as well as individually. This is what a Chief said about BattleStations: 150-300 SRs go through a night; out of that number 3-10 may fail and have to repeat with another BattleStations group. Teamwork is the key. If an SR keeps his/her mouth shut, focuses and listens, and performs well as a team member, he/she should pass.
They go through with their brother division. Up to 4 divisions can go a night. That would include either 2 sets of brother divisions, one set and an 800 or 900 division (or both). Sometimes just 2 divisions go through, but this doesn't happen too often. They start with the lowest numbered divisions and work up, with 800 and 900 divisions going randomly. They can start on Wed a week before PIR, but that is rare. They usually start on Thurs night a week before PIR. They do not have BattleStations on Fri or Sat nights because of Captains Cup on Sat for this PIR group. This is a fun athletic competition between all of the divisions in this PIR group. They can resume BattleStations on Sun-Wed nights of PIR week.
If an SR has not passed all required tests by BattleStations time for his/her division, he/she will not be allowed to go through. More time is given to pass this test (it is usually the run)...and once passed, they will go through BattleStations with another group. The latest they can pass and still be at their PIR is Thurs morning. They then will go through BattleStations that night with the next PIR group, be at PIR as a sailor in uniform, but sitting in the balcony after being up all night.
The brother divisions in this group are as follows (these are the divisions that they train with too):
167+168, 169+170, 171+172
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926
Please ask your SR to let you know when they have a BattleStations date and post it here and on the main board. We will then get a schedule started for this group. HOOYAH!
Below is a link that Craig (retired Navy) has posted to better inform you of what your SRs are going through.
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/ctratemoms/forum/topics/boot-camp-...
*****BATTLESTATIONS SCHEDULE*****(tentative--please confirm dates)
Thurs, May 5th/Fri, May 6th: Div 167, 168
Sun, May 8th/Mon, May 9th: Div 926, 810
Mon, May 9th/Tues, May 10th: Div 169, 170, 171, 172
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Permalink Reply by diannep on
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Please be sure to ask your SRs for their division's BattleStations dates and post in this group and on the main board so that we can get a schedule started!
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Ladies, please start asking about BattleStations dates and reporting on here so we can complete the schedule. Thanks!
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It is possible that they will go together, but more likely that each will join a set of brother divisions. They are not considered brother divisions.
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Permalink Reply by itsmemom on
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hmmm-I wonder when battlestations will be for 171. Can we assume that 169/170 will be Thur/Fri and 171/172 on Mon/Tuesday? Reason why I ask this is my daughter who is in 171 said in last letter that her next call home will be on 5/10 (which is a Tuesday) wasn't sure what time. However, in a prev. letter she wrote and told me the day & time she was calling home and time, and the phone call did come.
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Thinking that you probably are right, itsmemom! Waiting to hear confirmation that 169/170 are on Thurs. Thanks for the info on 171/172. It is on the schedule!
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Just heard from my daughter- she is in div 171 said her battle stations will be on Monday 5/9-Tuesday.
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Permalink Reply by jdmom on
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That would be great if 169/170 goes Thurs/Fri but of course my son didn't give details in his letter just that it was close. I hope your calculations are right.
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I wish hers was Thur/Fri, just so we don't have to wait the whole weekend. But, I guess it could be worse, I have heard of BS going Tue/Wed or Wed/Thur the week of PIR. I will be lighting my blue candle for the recruits when they do BS. I also feel safe letting them burn all night since I have the flameless LED candles.
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Permalink Reply by Soh@ppy&proud!ship 7 DIV 170 on
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when does 170 go???my son just got set back to that div he was suppose to go last night with div 160
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No date yet. I was thinking it it could either be Thurs night, the 5th, or Sun night, the 8th. But please ask if you speak to your SR. We get the dates from the SRs.
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Permalink Reply by Duane K Scarlett's Dad on
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My daughter's battlestations is scheduled for Sunday May 8th (start) and goes through May 9th (end). That's funny because it happens to be Mother's Day (yes, she has a son) and her 21st birthday is on the 9th! What a way to enter adulthood!
Go NAVY!
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