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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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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

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Twins and multiples in the Navy

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This is a group for navy moms who have twins or multiples and at least one has decided to join the navy. Share experiences of how you are coping and also how your kids are coping with being without their sibling.

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Latest Activity: Aug 29, 2020

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Handling the Twin Bond Relationship at Bootcamp

Started by Sierrascrapper (ETN2). Last reply by rebecca1957 Aug 29, 2020. 29 Replies 1 Like

I wanted to ask about this topic as it has a deep impact on how twins relate to each other. This will be good future reference for other Navy Twin Moms as their sons leave for BC. I only have one…Continue

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Comment by Dachshund28 on January 7, 2015 at 9:41am: Thank you both for your replies!! Do they get to call as much as they want? I did ask one of their friends who enlisted a year ago he said A school is somewhat like college but much more of a strict environment which is fine. I just hope we can talk anytime he wants to

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on January 7, 2015 at 4:11am: Thought I'd share the pic of all of us together again at Christmas since he left for BC in July.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on January 7, 2015 at 3:30am: Sonya...hope PIR was wonderful for you! Congratulations!

Dachshund...it is kinda hard for them to be apart. My boys had their first birthday apart this year and Thanksgiving too. I think it was kinda tougher on me not having them together for their birthday than it was for them. Only because I have always planned fun parties for them their entire life and this was the first time we didn't get to have one.

The Navy life is not easy, but I promise it will get just a tiny bit better once you can communicate again after BC. I don't really get to talk to my Sailor much, but we text here and there and I am lucky if I get a call every other weekend. My son is also in the Nuke program like CO-twin's Sailor and it's a very rigorous program with lots of study time and not much free time.

CO-twin...good to hear Sam is adjusting to the changes in Prototype. I'm sure the change in schedule has got to be difficult. Hope he can keep that attitude and run with it. I worry a tiny bit that Jonathan may have trouble adjusting to different schedules, but as he always says, "Challenge Accepted!" LOL Sure hope Steve finds some kind of happiness. It's not easy, it's something he will have to work on for himself as there is nothing we can do the change the way they see things. I wish we could though. (((NMH)))

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL and have a GREAT NAVY DAY!

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on December 29, 2014 at 10:06pm: Dachshund28 It does get better once they are in school after PIR, then they get their cell phones and laptops and can communicate better, providing they are not too busy at school.

Sonya,,,Are you going to PIR? That is right around the corner

Comment by Dachshund28 on December 29, 2014 at 7:51pm: sierrascrapper I just saw your post to me sorry. Yes PIR is close but feels like a life time away. My crying still hasn't completly stopped but getting better but then I have to leave and he stays for six more months!! I have only spoken to him the one time but have gotten several letter unfortunately he has not gotten all of mine. Yes having his brother here is great but the Holiday and their birthday away was hard on him as well as my SR. The twin home is the one to least show his emotions but lately I can tell he misses him a lot boy it's hard this Navy life. I do know it is a great future for him but so hard this new adjustment period.

Comment by Sonya Momof2Recruits on December 29, 2014 at 7:28pm: My twins are at Boot Camp together. They graduate 12/31.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on December 29, 2014 at 1:24pm: This was the third Christmas without Stephen, and my first without Sam. Talked on the phone though. My Nuke son is also doing well, Sierra, He is always so jolly. Easygoing guy. He is in Prototype now and the schedule he said is pretty crazy. Long hours. no days off that are the same time or day.

The other one is the more pessimistic twin. He has a hard time finding good in things. Makes me sad and not quite sure how to get him to try to look at the bright side of things.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on December 29, 2014 at 1:38am: Daschund...my other twin is also at home going to college full time and just started his first job about 2 mos ago. He's doing quite well and it's so nice to have him here at home to help chase away the separation blues.

You are getting so close to PIR! How exciting! You are going to LOVE that "I'm a Sailor" call! Definitely all of the recruits get sick in BC. My son still had a bad cough when he had PIR. Hope he gets over the blues soon. Keep writing him encouraging letters every day and recruit other friends and family to write him too. Before you know it...it will be PIR weekend.

Comment by Sierrascrapper (ETN2) on December 29, 2014 at 1:33am: Hello everyone! Hope you all had a nice Christmas. I sure hope some of you got to have your twins together for the holiday. My heart goes out to those who were missing their Sailors for the holiday. My Sailor came home for Christmas. It's the first time he's been home since he left for BC in July. Loved seeing him arrive in his dress blues at the airport. He is home for just a few more days. It's been so good for them to be together again. They still have their arguments just like old times. LOL. Sure not looking forward to him leaving again. However, he seems very happy and loves the Nuke program so that makes my heart happy knowing he is content.

Comment by CO-TwinSalorsMom on December 17, 2014 at 9:51pm: All the recruits get sick. I was happy to hear from one on mine (who was an avid nose picker at 19 yo) that he had second thoughts of all the times I told him to NEVER touch your face to aviod getting sick, he got sick right away and told me he decided I was on to something and he quit picking his nose. LOL The other twin got very homesick, the one that couldn't wait to leave home!! LOL Funny how things work.

His rate is what job did he sign up to train for?

My short twin is an IT, the tall one is in the nuke program in Charleston, SC