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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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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
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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."
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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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Comment by harpist mom on June 8, 2012 at 2:44pm
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May God bless you and your son. I will lift up prayers for you both.
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quiltblue, glad your getting to see your son! My son just left last week after a week on leave. He is now in the Middle East area and it may be a year or so before I get to see him. It sure was great seeing him again and seeing him and my younger son together again but it was soooo hard letting him go. He just turned 21 and, in my mind anyways, he is still my baby!!
So glad for N4M so I can talk to others who are going through the same things! I am on my lunch break and need to stop tearing up before I go back to work!
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Comment by quiltblue on June 1, 2012 at 1:53pm
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We drove to the Graduation and returned on Monday (with our Sailor). He is 26 years old and when I looked at him sitting on the bed, I saw my son fully grown as a MAN, not just the boy I usually see. Everything in my life is on HOLD until he flies back to Goose Creek on Sunday. He will have GRAD HOLD for two months before Prototype school starts (hands on nuclear reactor training). I may not see him again for over a year.
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Comment by Pearl Harbor MA on June 1, 2012 at 11:47am
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3 more days!! :0)
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On the upside..he;ll be home in less than a week!!!
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Comment by JenG on May 29, 2012 at 10:01pm
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
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Comment by Brenda Sue on May 29, 2012 at 9:58pm
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Congratulations!!! Wow!! That is a GREAT picture! I know you are proud! Did you get to go to the graduation? Is he going to get to come home during the two months of waiting? I know he needs some R & R (and mom's cooking) after Power School!
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Wanted to share our joy... on May 25th our Sailor Graduated from Nuclear Power School. Will be on Grad Hold for two months and then go to Power School in Balston Spa, NY for six months of hands on training. Then he will get his orders. Sam is on the left!
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Comment by Cece on May 29, 2012 at 10:19am
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Same thing with us! Our son has been stationed on the Coronado base in San Diego for 7 years! When we go out there we hardly see him because his work hours are so long! The cost of living is extremely high, also. So, he hardly has time or money to take advantage of the "tourist thing"!
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Comment by Kara4Hawaii on May 29, 2012 at 10:03am
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Pearl Harbor MA:
I know exactly how you feel. And I can't talk to people about what my daughter or her husband do. I don't know the specifincs of their job anyway, but when people find out that's where they are, it's like their job couldn't be that hard. I wish sometimes I could say the nature of the things they do, but I can't. Just know that I definitely know how you feel.
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