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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:
Events
**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).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**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.
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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RS (Retail Services Specialist), formerly SH (Ship's Serviceman) Moms and Others
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Retail Services Specialists (RS), formerly known as Ship's servicemen (SH), are responsible for managing and operating all shipboard retail and service activities. These include the ship's store, vending machines, video games, barber shops, laundry and tailor shops. They play a large role in the morale of the ship.
The duties performed by RSs include:
- managing and operating retail and service activities afloat;
- procuring and receiving ship's store stock;
- maintaining financial records and accounting systems;
- maintaining inventory and procurement databases;
- managing and operating ship's barber shops;
- serving as cash collections agents;
- operating and maintaining vending and cash collection machines;
- managing and operating ship's laundry and tailor shops
Read more at http://usmilitary.about.com/od/enlistedjob1/a/sh.htm .
Members: 21
Latest Activity: Mar 22, 2021
Discussion Forum
"C" school -- shipboard barber
Started by Valtameri Sep 28, 2013. 0 Replies 0 Likes
NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- At Naval Station Norfolk's Center for Service and Support (CSS), instructors of the shipboard barber "C" school provide training on the basic fundamentals of barbershop…Continue
SH "A" School
Started by Valtameri. Last reply by Valtameri Sep 28, 2013. 1 Reply 0 Likes
SH "A" school is approximately four weeks long.The school is located in Meridian, MS.Continue
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Comment by Elisabeth on June 11, 2018 at 10:35am
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Gotcha! Thank you for that. I thought it was independent. I wonder what the average wait time Is? He has orders to go to Mayport in FL after A school. I'm wondering if that will change because of the wait.
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Comment by LeAnn ⚖ on June 11, 2018 at 10:26am
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Elisabeth:
The A schools wait for enough to form a class. A schools are not "independent study" so they need to have a full class for the instruction to commence. The wait time depends on how many are needed to fill the class, which are those that will be arriving from BC. He will have other duties in the interim and begin to settle into life on that base.
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Hi, my son just arrived in Meridian for SH to start A school. Although, he said that he has to wait till there are 12 of them before he can begin his schooling???
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Comment by TxMom99 on May 17, 2018 at 9:20am
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Thank you for all the responses ! I'm not on this site much but I am GREATLY appreciative of all the help and support I've received since before Bootcamp !! There was no way I would have made it without everyone !! THANK YOU !
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Comment by Valtameri on May 16, 2018 at 11:50pm
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TX -- Is your sailor a barber?
Usually the Navy will pay for the sailor to fly from school to the next duty station; the sailor just pays the difference for the diversion home. However, in your son's case, with his C school and his duty station being in the same city, I guess that doesn't apply at all!
As LeAnn says, the airlines don't usually offer military discounts. I did hear that Southwest is doing a summer fare sale until Friday (covers June 5th - Oct.); perhaps he could look into that?
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TxMom:
Leave = vacation and Navy does not pay for flights that are not Navy "business". I don't know of any airline that has a military discount. Many will give the service person a free checked bag or 2, something to inquire about to be certain since policies differ among the airlines. He would need to show his mil ID when at the counter checking his bags to get any baggage discount.
Check travel sites for price comparisons and the individual airline sites. The farther out booked, to a certain point, the better the price.
Will be nice for you to see him and that he can relax at "home" and enjoy family and friends!
Tell him thanks for serving alongside my 2 Navy kids!
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My son is set to graduate C School in Norfolk in June. He will have leave after that and wants to come home to TX. He will be returning to Norfolk after leave.
Does he have to pay to fly / travel home for leave and back to VA ?
Do you have any recommendations on airlines that give military discounts ?
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Glad you joined our group, Elisabeth! Keep us posted on BC and beyond!
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Thank you Valtameri! My son is in boot camp now, set to graduate June 1, then off to Meridian for A school for Ship's Servicenan
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Welcome to Elisabeth!
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