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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

...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.

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.

DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."

Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

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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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RTC Graduation

**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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Ship 6 (Sick or Injured Recruits)waiting to return to a division to finish BC

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For loved ones wo have a recruit on ship 6 in recover for an injury or illness during bootcamp Here is a place for us to meet and talk about things!!!

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Latest Activity: May 19, 2018

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Comment by Tobianne on September 21, 2010 at 5:12pm: right, they are the ones that could have "really" said... "I am done send me home" they have the guts to stick it out no matter what they have to endure...
Kay is on a mechanical soft diet, they are grinding her food up (I think is what she was saying) soft none the less. When you are really not feeling well and know if you could just eat and gain energy it would be great. In your sons case also Michimom. he was most likely on a restricted diet for a while also.

Leg pain, you want to run, you do run but the pain is so intense.... These kids are true Sailors. They have been to battle before leaving BC!!! In Kays case she has now battle 2 different things since being in RCU... She is my hero, I would have been the one saying send me home.
I just encouraged her to keep going. She pulled that run out yesterday with 9 seconds to spare. You have to give them credit, they got through it and or they will.

God cares for those that want to do the right thing.

Comment by Michimom (MM Nuke Mom) on September 21, 2010 at 4:45pm: Yay, Tobianne! I believe your daughter and my son were in RCU at the same time, and I agree 100% that perseverence is the key! I always tried to be so positive in my letters and conversations with my son and I believe it helped, although he was fortunate in that he had a somewhat set end date to be in RCU. (He was recovering from an appendectomy.) Even so, he was in RCU two weeks longer than he felt he should have been, and he was pretty bummed about that.

I believe that the sailors who have made it through RCU have an extra toughness to them that those who didn't go through RCU don't have.

Comment by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on September 21, 2010 at 3:23pm: Tobianne - AWESOME!!!! Bravo Zulu new sailor!!!!!!

You're correct in that the perseverence changes them. My son is the same guy but somehow changed.

While he was in RCU he called one night feeling down and out scared of failing, feeling like he was letting everyone down because his body was kicking his butt. We talked for several minutes and he said he had to go and I said not yet and began to pray out loud on the phone with my guy. My prayer was only of thanksgiving for bringing him this far, for healing his leg, for giving him strength and thanking God for cushioning his leg for his run. I could hear him crying on the other end. He passed his run that week, he completed Battle Stations the next week. Yes Ma'am God is soooo Good!

Comment by Tiff'sMom (Sharon) on September 21, 2010 at 2:12pm: YEAH YIIPPEEE Tobianne!!!! Congratulations!!!!!

Comment by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on September 21, 2010 at 2:07pm: julie - you're right! they are not far away. While my son was in THU he went into Chicago 2 or 3 times on liberty. Went to the top of the sears tower and texted me some awesome pics!

That may have nothing to do with the phone call though. My son didn't get to call every Sunday while in RCU. Sometimes they have to stand watch or have other duties, they are still treated like they are in bootcamp. Also, if he got to go to the NEX and there wasn't a working phone available, he might not have been able to call. Again, No News is Good News, if he was having a problem, he would definitely have called.

Comment by Tobianne on September 21, 2010 at 2:04pm: Julie I was told some lost privies... now that would have been the fit side, or heck I dnt know since Kayla kind of was both!!!!

Oh yeah;

I am a Proud Momma of a Sailor!!!! Sorry, mind is running way to fast...

I want to say this, perseverance is the key to these kiddo's graduating... Julie please tell your son to find the chapel and get involved there, I know this sounds dumb to some, but this helped and changed Kayla, she was always loving and kind. Now she is that and so much more as God had a job for her and she took him up on his deal... Payoff is so sweet.

God is so Good.

Comment by julie b. on September 21, 2010 at 1:47pm: This is so exciting for all of you parents who have gone through this ordeal with our recruits. It gives me hope that Jake will be ok as long as he stays strong, and does not let the RCU bring him down. I also did not receive a phone call from him on Sunday. He has been calling me on that day since he got there 1 month ago. This might sound wierd, but on the news last night I saw that Chicago had a big sting operation on some nut that was carrying out a plot to put explosives at the Sears tower, Wrigleys Field, etc. The FBI arrested him, but it was close. I am wondering after working inside of a mens prison, if the Navy was under orders to keep every in quarters and no phonecalls due to this big story. They are not very far away!

Comment by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on September 21, 2010 at 1:19pm: Tobianne - that's great news!!!! Let us all know when you get that call! it is awesome. When my call came, I panicked at first thinking something else had happened and he was delayed again. When our recruit is injured, we get tuned in to thinking the worst.

My son is set to graduate A school next Friday 10/1 and come home on 10/2. I think I get more excited about his accomplishments because he was in RCU for 5 weeks and THU for 5 weeks and we didn't get to see him PIR.