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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!

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.

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:

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:

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

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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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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Anyone heard of Rhabdomyolysis?

Posted on January 31, 2010 at 11:18am 1 Comment

My son was only into his 2nd week of bootcamp and was sent to hospital for what is called Rhabdomyolysis and i'm really worried. Not only is he away from home, but now in hopital with an IV and now will have to be set back for graduation which is not nearly as important than him getting well. I don't know how often or commin this is in bootcamp but i just would like to hear from anyone else that has experienced this. Thanks for your support.

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At 12:26am on February 6, 2012, CMO said…

Thank you for the reply.  Did your son have any recurrence, or he was ok after that?  I just don't know what to expect for the follow-up, recuperation time, etc.  I think he's getting a reenlistment code, and I believe they also mentioned an option was to finish his college degree and then look at OCS (he has 2 more years for his CJ degree, planned to finish it while enlisted).  Not sure if the bacterial infection he got triggered the Rhabdo, or it was exercise induced.  I think the doctor at GL said exercise induced, but my son was so active and physically fit before boot camp, so maybe a combo of the initial bacterial infection with exercise and I'm guessing not much sleep?  I just don't know.  One step at a time I guess.  I just can't believe this happened.  When he called with the initial bacterial infection it looked like he'd be back at boot camp in a couple of days, then the bloodwork showed that Rhabdo had kicked in.  He must have a mild case of it though, because he's not in bed, he was sidelined from participating in any boot camp activity other than eating with his division because of the lab results (they've been running labs every 3 days), but they said it can be months for labs to be normal.

 
 
 

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