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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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Alumni of PIR 8/24/2012 TG 41 — 09 Divisions (261–268 & 941)

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This is a group for friends and family of SR's with a graduation PIR date of 08/24/02012 from Great Lakes, IL.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 98
Latest Activity: Sep 9, 2012

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Comment by diannep on August 1, 2012 at 11:26am: NCNavyMom: We have had posts from others who have stayed there...don't remember bad info on that hotel. Have you read the "blogs" from former guests on the internet? That may give you a better idea.

Good news is if you decide you want to stay somewhere else for any reason, you should be able to change no with no problem up until shortly before you arrive...most hotels give you until the day before or even the day of to cancel.

Comment by NCNavyMom on August 1, 2012 at 10:18am: Thanks diannep....I'm learning! :)

Comment by NCNavyMom on August 1, 2012 at 10:11am: Hi Pampered Mom. We aren't arriving at the Chicago airport until 8:40 pm Thursday evening and leaving Monday. We are staying at the LaQuinta Inn & Suites Chicago Gurnee. Starting to wonder if we should have booked somewhere else. I haven't heard much on this hotel and it doesn't have a shuttle to the graduation.

Comment by PamperedMom on August 1, 2012 at 9:26am: Hi NCNavyMom! My SR left from Wilmington too!! We are staying at the Holiday Inn Express. Flying up on Thursday morning 08/23 at 0530 and back on Monday.

Comment by tisdalerg 11/262 on August 1, 2012 at 9:00am: Thanks for your response... It's the Hilton Garden Inn - Lake Forest Mettawa. It's about 6 miles from Graduation.

Comment by diannep on August 1, 2012 at 8:13am: Hilton Garden Inns are nice hotels, tisdalerg. Where is it? Haven't heard of that one in that area. If you plan to use a graduation shuttle on PIR day, you may want to ask the hotel if they use the shuttle (actually taxis operating as shuttles that day) for graduation day. Most hotels won't know what you are talking about if you say PIR! They know it as Navy Graduation.

NCNavyMom: The more time you spend on here experimenting, the more you will learn how to navigate! I had no clue what I was doing when I first got on. With some help from others and lots of practice, I finally figured most of it out!

Good morning all!

Comment by NCNavyMom on August 1, 2012 at 7:53am: Hi Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons and Sputnik 114. I just noticed your posts. Sputnik 114 I believe my stepdaughter was the one who left with your daughter. I recognize the pink shirt in your profile picture. I found out after she left that I've known her uncle Tom for years. It's a small world. Lala Ribbon Queen. I live in Hampstead, NC. It's about 10 minutes outside of Wilmington, NC. Please forgive me if I don't answer posts or get this right. I am still trying to figure out how to navigate all of this. I'm terrible at fb.

Comment by tisdalerg 11/262 on August 1, 2012 at 7:31am: Any Information on Hilton Garden Inn?

Comment by mom-11-263 on August 1, 2012 at 2:10am: Victoria, I can't get the Pledge of Allegiance to transfer on to this page!!! Can you do it? Thankx. : )