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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.
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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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**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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Thanks. Her name is Belle and she is a 6 year old Himalayan. She is the best cat ever. She follows me around like a puppy. Himalayans are know for their dog like character. There is a possibility that we are getting another adult next month.
So my son is ship 11 div 065 is that the same as your bf?
But I sort of picture it as a reallllly long boot camp :P
Emails (instead of letters) hopefully a little regularly, calls every now and then when I'm lucky, and not seeing him for months (much longer than boot camp).
I'm obviously not looking forward to deployments if you can't tell :)
I'm Nicole, and my boyfriend is in a school now, but he just got orders. So I've been through the waiting through boot camp, and I completely understand your pain! I'm here if you have any questions or just need a shoulder to lean on. I wanted to recommend a couple of groups, Navy girlfriends, and boot camp girlfriends. They've covered alot of topics that you're probably wondering about. Try to be strong, and remember, he misses you just as much as you miss him, and he's stuck in a strange place where he doesn't know anyone! Write to him all the time, that's what got me through. Bret told me that my daily letters got him through some really difficult days! I promise it will get easier. :)
take care,
Nicole
STAY BUSY. Don't sit around moping that your boyfriend is gone. Take up extra hours at work, hang out with friends and family. Write like crazy.
The only way I made it through the boot camp stage was staying busy. I'd start at 7am and wouldn't stop until 10 or 11. That way once my head hit the pillow, I was out. I didn't have time to sit and cry and wonder where he was and what he was doing.
And I agree with Emily about the phone... Don't let it leave your sight! I missed one of his phone calls (he called six times and I didn't hear it ring once) and I got the voice mail ten minutes later... He never called back. It breaks your heart when you miss a phone call.
In a way, try to cherish this time. Honestly, I think boot camp may have been one of the most trying, yet exciting, times of our relationship. The letters I got are the most valuable thing I own today.
Just remember, once boot camp is over you never have to live through it again. Deployments are the next monster!
What's your boyfriend's rate (job)? :)
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Enjoy your time here! I look forward (along with the community) to reading more about you! :)
-Colleen