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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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**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

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*BattleStations**

This is the final test for your recruits. When they pass this, they are sailors and trade in their recruit cap for their sailor cap in a capping ceremony afterwards. The ship they do this on was designed by Disney, so it is very realistic. During the 12 hour overnight drill, they encounter every situation that they might face when deployed on a ship. It is a night of adrenaline and focus.

Up to 4 divisions can go at once, but sometimes only 2 or 3 go. Brother divisions go together. 800 and 900 divisions go randomly. They start with the lowest numbered divisions and move up. They can start on the Thursday night, a week before PIR. They skip Fri and Sat nights because of Captains Cup on Saturday (athletic competition between divisions...fun for them!). They can resume BattleStations Sun-Wed nights during PIR week. Something a Chief said about Battlestations:

150-300 SRs go at a time, 3-10 of them will fail and have to repeat it, the most important thing is TEAMWORK. If the SRs keep their mouths shut, listen, and work as a team, they should pass.

The brother divisions in this PIR group are:

63+64, 65+66, 67+68, 69+70, 71+72, 73+74

804

912

"I'm a Sailor" phone calls will start to come in the day they finish, usually starting around 2 pm GL time and going into the evening. They may need to complete PIR practice first so be patient. Some may have watch and won't call until the next day.

When you get a BattleStations date from your recruit, post it here and I will add it to the schedule.

HOOYAH!

*****BattleStations Schedule******(they start late at night and continue through the next morning which is why there are 2 dates posted)

Thurs, Feb 3rd/Fri, Feb 4th Div 63, 64, 65, 66 (moved back a day due to blizzard)

Sun, Feb 6th/Mon, Feb 7th Div 67, 68, 804 (moved back from Thurs due to blizzard)

Mon, Feb 7th/Tues Feb 8th Div 69, 70, 912

Tues, Feb 8th/Wed Feb. 9th Div 71, 72, 73, 74

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Permalink Reply by MamaMiri (FT) on January 26, 2011 at 3:19pm

Wish I could do that, mamawalrus! If I pulled an all nighter I'd be a zombie since my toddler does not care whether I sleep or not! lol!

Permalink Reply by mamawalrus on January 26, 2011 at 3:36pm

Oh I will be a Zombie,,,hahahahahahaha

Permalink Reply by Lexsmom on January 26, 2011 at 9:05pm

I will be a zombie too, I took off work the next day for fear of not sleeping while they are at Battlestations!!

Permalink Reply by BBWinthemoon on January 27, 2011 at 5:35pm

we can just chat all night!!! not sure how much sleep i will be getting.

Permalink Reply by Life is Peachy on January 27, 2011 at 5:49pm

I'm sure I will be up most of the night too.... just without a candle. I'm going to go look for a battery operated one this weekend though!

Permalink Reply by n4vyw1f3 on January 26, 2011 at 6:18pm

Division 072 will have BattleStations on Feb 7th

Permalink Reply by mamawalrus on January 26, 2011 at 6:49pm

Letter stated BS for 804 was Thursday next week which is Feb 3rd... not sure if that means starting BS that night?

Permalink Reply by diannep on January 26, 2011 at 6:56pm

Thanks, n4vyw1f3 and mamawalrus: I put 71 and 72 (brother divisions) on the 7th; 804 was already on the 3rd so looks like we are ok! Thanks~

Permalink Reply by grandmac on January 26, 2011 at 11:50pm

That is my wedding anniversary - do you think that will bring my SR luck???

Permalink Reply by diannep on January 27, 2011 at 6:48pm

Absolutely! :-)

Permalink Reply by emlovee on January 26, 2011 at 7:06pm

just got a call and he said battlestations for div 71 was the wednesday before pir.

Permalink Reply by diannep on January 27, 2011 at 12:13am

emlovee: 71 and 72 go together and they can't go before 73 and 74....so I'm thinking that something is not right here. It is possible that they could go with 73 and 74 on Tues/Wed....if not on Mon/Tues. Guess we will hope for a few more posts to confirm the date. Thanks!