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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

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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:

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.

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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Alumni of PIR 7/15/11 TG 35 - 227-230, 816, 935

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Comment by diannep on June 22, 2011 at 3:33pm: Thanks, keger. I think so too!

Comment by keger2001 on June 22, 2011 at 3:27pm: dinnep- I love that song also, I cry everytime too! I am sorry to hear about your husband, he is watching and taking care of all of you. I am sure he is very proud of your son.

Linda B and Just T, I know exactly how you both feel, and no Wednesday is not just a normal day anymore either...

Comment by Just T on June 22, 2011 at 2:56pm: My mail from GL arrives on Thursday's too!!! I have renamed it Letters from (my SR) Thursday. It's not just any Thursday anymore!

Comment by LadyLancelot on June 22, 2011 at 11:49am: Battlestations YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jibm7kyIGcM

Comment by diannep on June 22, 2011 at 11:33am: keger: They played that song at my son's PIR 1.5 years ago. It is a very specail song to us because my hubby/his father passed away just 6 days after 9/11. My son knew how much his father loved his country, so he asked that it be sung at the memorial service. So tears everytime we hear it ! It is truly a wonderful song.

Comment by keger2001 on June 22, 2011 at 9:08am: It's Wednesday!! SR letter day, can't wait for the mail to get here..LOL

Comment by keger2001 on June 22, 2011 at 8:53am: fireteamleaderwife, I haven't seen the one your mentioned, however I am going to look that one up..The one I am talking about is labeled, Great Lakes IL, Navy Boot Camp Graduation, they are in dress whites..

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on June 21, 2011 at 8:15pm: keger-that must have been the "capping" ceremony. This is where the SR's that have passed Battlestations become Sailors! They remove their caps that say "Recruit" and are given new ones to wear that say "Navy". It's very moving for most of them.

Oh...to be a fly on the wall...and at the same time they earned it and it belongs to them.

Comment by keger2001 on June 21, 2011 at 7:42pm: Christy I have a feeling the week of PIR is going to be a long week, I have been watching some of the graduations on YouTube and cry while I am watching them, there is one certain one they play God Bless the USA with and it I had to have tissues with that one..LOL.
Shismommie, please be safe, 14 hours is a long time..

Comment by shismommie on June 21, 2011 at 7:27pm: Can't wait either. I'm driving about 14 hours with my kids and mother in-law. July 15th can't get here soon enough.