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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:
**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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Thanks for the kind words and patience. A couple of moms have "coached" me on N4M etiquette and procedures, and while I am trying to comply, as noted below, I do get a bit busy every now and then. I am trainable, just a bit slow.
Seems as though the Grad n' Go (GNG) topic has ignited some questions/discussion. Vice using this medium as the primary information source for scheduling questions, I'd like to use it as an alternate for same. That is, it is best if the families contact the RTC PAO directly for graduation information (such as which divisions are GNG). They will have the same information I provide, but it will be at thier fingertips, while I have to "drill down" a bit to harvest the information. This will make it far more expedient for you to get the info, as I will not be able to reply to the inquiries immediately. If you experience problems with this, please let me know.
Although I am personally replying to your posts, both my PAO and my personal assistant monitor the posts to ensure I don't miss anything (and to give me a "poke" when I'm slow to reply).
Thanks to all of you for supporting your recruits and Sailors. It really makes a big difference in mission accomplishment.
RTC PAO Contact info:
Recruit Training Command
3355 Illinois Street
Great Lakes , IL 60088
Phone: Public Affairs Office 847-688-2405
For personal and family related issues, please email RTC:
rtc.pao@navy.mil
An example might be the death of an immediate relative (mother, father, sibling, spouse, dependant child), followed by an American Red Cross message. This is usually covered by granting the member leave due to time and travel requirements.
All Divisions are granted liberty immediately following graduation. Unless the Sailor has a watch to stand, they will all have liberty, expiring on board at 2000 that evening. I'd plan to be back aboard no later than 1930 to allow time to drive through our gate (security) and for the Sailor to walk back to the ship by 2000.
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