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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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**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
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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SECF - ET & FT & STS
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This site is for ETs & FTs & STS who are in the submarine field. My son is an ET/COMM
Members: 259
Latest Activity: Oct 22, 2021
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Started by Sailormom01. Last reply by Sailormom01 Sep 17, 2019. 2 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Rhonda8881 on September 19, 2012 at 6:20pm
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Gayle, my sailor (ET/Nav) is on his 2nd underway also, been out a little longer than yours has. I did talk to him once but it has been 3 or 4 weeks now. So am patiently (or trying to be) waiting to hear from him again. His girlfriend lets me know when she hears from him just so I know all is okay before he gets a chance to call me. That helps somewhat. Hope you hear from yours soon!
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Comment by Nana Donna (nanaTo2Saliors) on September 19, 2012 at 10:56am
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DesertMom - they will be repairing the Miami however repairs will not be done till June 2013, wow that is a long time. I hope he gets to go out on more ghost rides that is a long time for a new guy to wait to finally get to do his job. I did read yesterday that only 1/3 of the repair will be done where it is at now in Portsmouth NH Naval Shipyard then the rest would be done in Virginia and/or Connecticut.
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Comment by DesertMom on September 19, 2012 at 9:23am
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Nana Donna - Has your grandson said anything about when the USS Miami would be repaired? I kinda lost track of what was going on after the fire. But in the mean time Hawaii sounds like it would be a good place to be.
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Comment by Gayle on September 18, 2012 at 9:36pm
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Hi fellow STS's familys,
My son left about 2 weeks ago for his 2nd underway. No communication...Given what is going on in the world I can guess he is busy. No news is good news at this time.
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Well it must be an STS thing, my grandson doesn't say much about it either of course he is generally not a chatty guy. My second grandson that is in Groton starting A school today for STS is more chatty so maybe I will get more out of him later ha ha. More first grandson will be going out on his first underway as a ghost rider sometime in October on the USS Jacksonville out of Hawaii he is excited to finally get to go do what he has been training for. Since his sub is the USS Miami he has been dry docked since finishing school.
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Hi Missin'mybrowneyedboy -- I had to chuckle about your description of your son's "silent service". My son is about the same. Guess he takes the STS job to mean he doesn't even have to tell me much. He is on his first patrol and I really don't expect a lot of communication from him.
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Comment by missin'mybrowneyedboy on September 16, 2012 at 8:54pm
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Hi, Gayle. Well, truthfully, I do not know where he is "now" : ( He is stationed in Bremerton/Bangor, WA and assigned to the USS Kentucky but since she is in drydock/having an overhaul he is out as a rider(and a NUB) on the USS Alabama. When he initially went out, he was able to send an occassional e-mail, but it has now been sadly too long since I last heard from him. Sigh. Hey, I would love to hear anything you can share about our sons' life as a STS. My son has never been a chatty kinda guy so this whole "silent service" things fits him just fine. I have accused him of using it as a ruse to not need to answer ANY questions: )
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your right missin, Thank you. Where is your son now??
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Rhonda8881, I hope I congratulated your son for his THIRD(!!!!!) NAM on one of the other sites, but if I failed to do that, please know how much I thank and respect him for the stellar commitment he has made to a very difficult and important career. I know he's been serving for at least 4 years and I can only imagine the sacrifices he and you and your entire family have made over that time. Again, thank you to all of you.
navywifechaney11, did you get over to the Groton site yet? I think I responded to one of your questions before but if I remember wrong or you didn't get the answer you needed, head on over there for the most up to date info. My son graduated from A school in April of this year as a STS(his choice, Gayle: )so things might have changed since then. I haven't heard so and I still post so hope I'm accurate :o Btw, my son left O'Hare at 0630 on Saturday following PIR so we only had a few hours together at the airport, too: (
Gayle, The "something else" was probably ATT: )))
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Comment by navywifechaney (Ship-02 DIV-950) on September 7, 2012 at 10:04pm
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ok thank you gayle. :)
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