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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

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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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.

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Centennial PIR Group (07/01/11)

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For those with Sailors who participated in the Recruit Training Command Centennial PIR on July 1, 2011.

Members: 74
Latest Activity: Jun 29, 2012

Congratulations new Sailors! We are so very proud of you.

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Comment by Craig on June 2, 2011 at 10:11am: lucy - Give to clarify, your son is a Starboard watch leader. Here is what your son does:

Port and Starboard is the same exact name as civilians use for Left and Right. The easy way to remember is Port has 4 letters, so does left. So Port = Left.

In the barracks (ships) they have a left and right side also, so the head dude on the left side is called the Port Watch Section Leaders (PWSL), and the one on the right is called Starboard Watch Section Leader (SWSL). Their duties are as follows:

The Port/Starboard Watch Section Leaders are the senior Recruit Petty Officers for respective watch sections.

The Starboard Watch Section Leader (SWSL) shall serve as the division's watchbill coordinator. Watchbills will be prepared and subsequently submitted to the RDCs via the RPOC.

The Port Watch Section Leader (PWSL) shall coordinate the rotation of the ship watchstanders with the RDCs.

Comment by BluAnjel NoLongerNavyMom on June 2, 2011 at 9:11am: No mail on Memorial Day, so those of us that would get letters Wed are getting them a day late. Jessica is lucky she got hers yesterday! I have a Dr appt this afternoon, so its gonna be torture waiting to get outta there and get home to the mail!

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 2, 2011 at 8:15am: I just posted a questionnaire in the discussions above. You will have to copy and paste this to word and tweak it a little so that it works for you. My sailor was a girl :-) This is one of the questionnaires I made and sent to her. It is a great one to send now that your recruits are over halfway through. Plus you can get answers to questions you need answers to. And they take less time than writing a letter so the recruits love them. Change it around and make it yours and have fun with it. The best part is the encouragement paragraph near the end. It is great for them to have this just before battlestations. I hope you enjoy it :-)
Lala

Comment by lucyloves...herSailor! on June 2, 2011 at 8:12am: Katiesmom....my sons job is watch leader or whatever it's called .... lol. He said he has to get up a couple of times during the night to check on things and he does the watch schedule.

Comment by lucyloves...herSailor! on June 2, 2011 at 8:03am: That's the truth diannep! She is a hoot!!!!

Comment by diannep on June 2, 2011 at 7:54am: katiesmom aka jaysonsmom aka flying-under-the-radar aka hideout queen aka I-didn't-do-it aka very funny lady aka.....the list just goes on and on.... :-)

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 2, 2011 at 7:18am: Holiday routine is what they get on Sundays and most Holidays. They get extra down time to shine their boots, study, other tasks, and best of all write letters :-)

katiesmom, I am an IRS agent and we are watching you!!! JK JK JK lol

JessicaB- Yay for holiday time :-)

Comment by ConnieC on June 2, 2011 at 7:06am: For those who have a Belks store close to them, they have binoculars on sale for 14.99, just read their ad online.

Comment by ConnieC on June 2, 2011 at 6:50am: Good morning Ladies,
KatiesMom, I am going to include you in the next phone call I get, a three way so you can take notes while Imlisten to her voice, lol. Just to let you all know, standing watch or having duty, as us Land Loving Sailor's have called it, sucks anyway you slice it, but it is a necessary evil! I pray that we all get mail today. Now go and have a fine Navy Day.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 1, 2011 at 10:47pm: Well the holiday will probably push letter day off a day but the good thing is that they got holiday time on Monday as well so you may get more than one letter. :-) So in that case it is worth the wait!!!