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Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.
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.
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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."
Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
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 deanna on January 21, 2012 at 7:41pm
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I can maybe fly to Houston easily if I know a week or so in advance and someone could pick me up at Bush for a meet and greet!
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Shadesofpurple when does or did he graduate? That's a long time to wait!
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Comment by Maria ( 9/132 - HM- 04-2011) on January 21, 2012 at 6:51pm
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We stayed at the courtyard in Waukegan
Rhonda I know what you mean. We have been lucky that are son had been stationed in SA for so long but this last time was harder as we did not know of he would be back before his next station. He is a surgical tech and his next station is fl. Is your son assigned to a marine unit?
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Comment by Rhonda on January 21, 2012 at 6:11pm
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Maria~ I do okay now its like every other time he leaves I will cry. This one was hard knowing It will be almost a year before I see him again. He is on an underway right now getting ready to deploy again. This will be his second deployment in his 2nd year of service.
They sent us a list of hotels that gave military discounts for the family. We had no issues with the Red Roof Inn It is an older hotel but it was clean & thats all that matters to me really.
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Comment by mnozell48 on January 21, 2012 at 4:35pm
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staying at the springhill suites
has the shuttle that will come and take you to graduation for 3 dollars a person
hear it is the easiest thing to do
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Comment by Pearl Harbor MA on January 21, 2012 at 4:30pm
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The Ramada is actually in Waukeegan
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Comment by gavinsmom68ship07 div080 on January 21, 2012 at 4:19pm
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please help ladies, not sure where to stay for PIR, reading bad reviews....want to be sure they have a shuttle. Thanks
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Rhonda you did much better than i did. I did not cry in front of him when i dropped him off at the recruiters, but the whole 30+ mins home was another story. Lol. He us my only child and when I got home and saw his room. Flood gates opened up again. I have gotten much better over the last. 11 months.
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Comment by harpist mom on January 21, 2012 at 1:41pm
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Brenda and Pearl, Thank you for you advice. If you knew me personally, you would realize how accurate it is to recommend a "towel" vs. tissue. :)
I will check out that Ramada when I have the date. Is it in Great Lakes also?
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Maria~ You got it right with the big white doors!! I had been so proud of myself I didn't cry when he left & I didnt cry until those doors started up. Then it was like Niagra falls!!! They didnt stop till I got to go on the floor & get my first hug from my son who went in the Navy a kid & when I saw him he was a young man!!
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