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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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Make at least change 3 at the bottom of OPSEC and PERSEC (Making Changes to Your Profile) (clickable link) and change the Privacy Settings for this page from "Anyone" to "Members."
If your loved one is now in OCS, then you can change "Waiting to attend Officer Candidate School" above to "In Officer Candidate School."
There may be other changes you need to make as well, so read and consider each of the changes.
You may also want to join Moms of Officers. NAVY OCS CANDIO BOX GUIDE has info on the Candio Box that you will send to arrive in week nine.
What area will he be in--Aviation, Intel, Nuclear Field, Supply....? I may have more info for you.
Congrats to your LO on the getting to OCS. Mine was commissioned 9/2015. If you have not hear another good faceboook page is officer training command Newport. Here they wil post pictures of the classes and you too can play finding Waldo looking for you LO. I was able to meet up with our LO in the evening the first night we arrived for a short hug on base. The Hi Moms event is a must go to. Mine did have his orders so after the commissioning program and getting his records he was free to leave the base. For his group they had to get out of their rooms as the next group was moving in. If possible add a few days for exploring the area. We went as a family to Boston after for a few days It was a wonderful trip. As the others have stated no news is good news the first few weeks.
Congrats to you LO entering OCS. You may want to hold off on the revelations. Your LO can roll anytime. Make sure you start sending letters. No goodies no perfume letters no nothing. Right now your letters will be the only thing that will get your LO through this hard time.
MBmom: I know; it's hard to let them go and be on their own. We here all know that once a Mom, always a Mom, no matter how old they get! For the first 3-4 weeks of OCS, the only contact with the outside world that the candidates are allowed is old-fashioned snail mail letters. Their cell phones are taken from them and stored until about the tenth week. They are not allowed access to TV, internet, newspapers, etc. Once they get email privileges about week 3-4, they will be emailing from a closed government server, and so will have no access to Facebook, or other social media. About all they can do is email to home. This is so they will be fully concentrated on their training, and to wean them off constant electronic communication. It comes as a great shock to those who are addicted to gaming, etc.!
Your role for those first weeks is to write him lots of encouraging letters with all the news from home. Letters only, in plain white envelopes. I also photocopied cartoons, and added family pictures into computer-generated letters. Do NOT send any treats, food, or gifts of any kind or the candidate will be punished with many extra pushups for contraband! Make sure anyone to whom you give your loved one's address knows this, so they don't innocently get him in trouble. He will be able to call you one time when he reports, to let you know he got there, and he can tell you his mailing address then.
They cherish those letters, and live for mail-call, even if they tell you don't bother writing. An encouraging letter telling him how proud you are, and that he must hang in there no matter how tough it gets, can make all the difference.
Sometimes they will write back, but don't expect it. (Kids today don't do snail mail!) Write anyway. You'll hear more once he gets email privileges.
Remember, in the first few weeks of OCS, NO news is GOOD news. If you do not hear from your candidate, then they are still in the program. If they get injured or fail something and thereby get "rolled" back to the next incoming class in three weeks to start over, they will be allowed to call family to tell them that.
Read back on the posts here on the OCS graduates group, and we may have answered many of your questions already. If not, just ask! My son graduated OCS 5 years ago, and many things have changed, so I sometimes have to defer to the moms of more recent grads for info on how it is done now.
Good luck to your son!
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Head to “Settings” on the main page right away to add a profile image (no last names visible, please) and complete your Profile. Then - and this is important! - read these Community Guidelines and this Operations Security (OPSEC) Checklist, for the safety and privacy of all our Sailors.
Then jump right in! Browse around the site and check out the groups and the information in their Discussion Forums.
Join this group for boot camp moms, where you'll also find a group for your Pass in Review (graduation) date; and this one for PIR Reference Information.
Get a head start during boot camp by joining groups for, and learning about, your Sailor's occupational specialty and "A" School; and later your Sailor's duty station and/or Navy ship and homeport. You can also join groups for your own state, region or home town and interests from getting ready for deployment to care package ideas!
Please say Hi when you join a group, and feel free to ask any and all questions - everyone was new once, and there is no "dumb" question.
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