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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)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

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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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**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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PIR 07/29/11

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TG 37-9 DIVISIONS (235-242) &937 GRADUATION: FRIDAY JULY 29, 2011

Members: 82
Latest Activity: May 15, 2015

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Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on June 22, 2011 at 12:44am: Me again!
I posted links for Questionnaires you can send to your SR

and

I posted a link to the Family Guide and Family FAQ that are on the RTC website. Both are in the Discussion area.
This website is where you will go eventually to print out your Gate Passes for PIR. Your honor grads will be listed here (but not until about 2 days before PIR-those of you that will have honor grads will be notified by the Navy as you will get to sit up front!)
So explore around on it a bit. On the links is where you will find the one for the RTC FB page. [[CAUTION: DO NOT post for people to come over here-it WILL be deleted. We don’t know why…Navy4Moms is sponsored by the Navy…??? My recruiter GAVE me a pamphlet about ANvy4moms with a little magnet on it…I had already beat him too it though! ;-)]] Here you can go and hook up with people if you FB. You can also sometimes find your SR (or at least his/her DIV) on the photo wall in the coming weeks. RTC posts Pics fairly regularly of daily goings on. I believe there is some kind of challenge question every Tuesday…I don’t know what the winner gets. I do not FB.
The Family Guide has general standard info about PIR; your form letter does also.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on June 22, 2011 at 12:41am: Ladies-
I posted info on jokes and such to send to your SR up in the discussion area.

As you may already know there is a special way to send your SR mail.

We recommend no colored envelopes (My SR never mentioned a problem. This is usually up to their RDC's like/dislike!). No bulky envelopes...they'll have to open it front of the RDC (contraband). No packages-again opened in front of RDC-if it contains edibles it will be thrown out or consumed by RDC's!

Definitely, no musical cards! We've heard stories about what happens with these from-dancing or IT while they play; sometimes until the batteries run out!
Sometimes moms have sent newspaper articles only to hear that they are thrown out before the SR can read them.

So, that being said here is what we do...copy Pics, jokes, puzzles(I did word searches), cartoons ( I did color with no problem but again that was my Sailors RDC's), drawings( little bros and sisters like to do this...moms too!), ON THE BACK of your letters. This keeps the envelope smaller.

We also recommend typing in 14 pt. font. Ummm...NO SR would ever dream of doing this (wink) but there is a red light on at night after lights out (think Naval vessel) that they sometimes read too. So no red ink either. I did hand write some to make it "homey".

I know it seems "plain" but the "back of the letter" thing helps.

Happy Writing!

Comment by HM__Mom Ruth on June 21, 2011 at 7:59pm: Lighting a blue candle for my sailor (recruit). Sure do miss her.

Comment by diannep on June 21, 2011 at 2:57pm: You're welcome, Kathy!

Comment by Kathy-3/235 on June 21, 2011 at 10:44am: Dianne: Thank you for your help with how messaging works.

Comment by diannep on June 21, 2011 at 8:16am: Kathy: If you want to send one to the entire group here, click on "send message to group" prompt above the "members' list up top. If you want to send to a specific person, you must be that person's "friend" first, so send a friend request. Just go to that person's page to do that. Once they accept that request and you are "friends," you can private message with one another on here.

Comment by Kathy-3/235 on June 21, 2011 at 7:36am: How do you send a private message?

Comment by diannep on June 21, 2011 at 7:34am: I haven't seen anyone do this on here, but it happened in another PIR group--so I wanted to warn you all. Some ladies like to post all of the details from their SR's letters on this site. Please don't do this. One gf did this and her SR bf paid the price big time once those posts were read by Navy personnel training her bf. So please don't provide all details of the letters. It is ok to give general info about when they are doing different test, etc, but as far as feelings about other SRs or about bootcamp in general, better not to get too specific on here. Some of the ladies actually copied verbatim the letters from their SRs. Not a good idea.

Just remember...this is a public site...anyone can read your comments. If you don't believe this, just "google" any question you have about navy bootcamp and I can assure you that some comments from this site will come up! If you want to share any info you received from your SR, better to private message it.

Comment by nicole~a sailors girl(: on June 20, 2011 at 11:06pm: Good to hear christine:) your son and my bf are in the same division

Comment by Christine-Aviation Tech Mom on June 20, 2011 at 10:45pm: My son has been in for 2 weeks as of today. We got the form letter and I wrote him two letters so far. We are also sending him a calling card this week. The note he put on his form letter was that its tough at times but he's hanging in there. He was very excited to join and very determined to graduate and get to his A school in Pensacola, FL. to become an Aviation Tech. I'm so proud of him.