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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.

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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NavyMom93 (DIV: 823)'s Blog (6)

MY SAILOR!

Well a week ago my son PIR'd and I am still on cloud nine about that! It was something so beautiful to see and believe it or not the tears only flowed twice. Once when his division passed where we were sitting and when the National Anthem was played/sang (I always tear up on that one).

We had no trouble getting to the handicapped parking and was offered a wheel chair as soon as I stepped out of the car! Now that is service, LOL. Of course I declined it, I had my cane with my…

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Added by NavyMom93 (DIV: 823) on November 17, 2011 at 8:39am — 1 Comment

A week from tomorrow!

I can't believe it will be a week from tomorrow and I will see my son!!! 

It seemed like such a long time ago that I watched him turn and go into the hotel after we said goodbye, but it also seems so short at the same time. I marked the weeks by the mail and got mad when there was a holiday that the mail didn't run because it made it one day later for me to get my letter from him. I still read them all.

I can't wait to see him march in with his division, head held high with…

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Added by NavyMom93 (DIV: 823) on November 2, 2011 at 8:30am — 8 Comments

26 Days and Counting!!!

It's 5:30am and I've been awake for about an hour and a half just thinking and then the realization hit me...26 more days and I can see my son. I won't be seeing the boy I left at the hotel the night before he went to boot camp though. I will be seeing the man he has become. It seems like a lifetime ago since I hugged him and told him to take care of himself, but then again it also seems just like yesterday. 

I realize that this is just the first phase of him not being around, that…

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Added by NavyMom93 (DIV: 823) on October 16, 2011 at 5:49am — 1 Comment

Mom's Day Out!

My daughter is highly involved in with horses and shows them in 4-H and we volunteer at the stables as much as possible. To take the family's focus off of my son, we volunteered to help with lead rides for a 6 year old little girl's birthday party. Everything went great!

We've been there alot over the past 7 months and became good friends with the owner. We were in her office and she stopped mid-sentence and asked "Do you have any office experience?" I just looked at her and smiled a…

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Added by NavyMom93 (DIV: 823) on October 9, 2011 at 3:39am — 1 Comment

A Down Day

I've only written one other blog. I had found it easier to deal with my emotions by helping others. It's been 25 days since I've seen my son, been able to hug him, laugh with him, see his smile. I'll get to do that in 35 days, a relatively short amount of time that seems to be forever. I miss him and his letters have helped. I tell other Moms, new ones, ones that are in the same PIR group as mine, to keep their heads up. Today I'm having a hard time doing that. It seems I've ran out of…

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Added by NavyMom93 (DIV: 823) on October 7, 2011 at 9:53am — 8 Comments

Day 6...

I've been here a while and reading other mother's blogs seeing that I'm not the only one who feels the way I do. There is the numbness, sadness, fear. There is also pride, excitement, joy and anticipation.

 

Numbness: I feel like an empty shell trying to deal with the sadness that I can't just log onto messenger and say "HI". The fear is the worst. I am afraid he'll get hurt, that he won't be able to manage being this long away from family. I know these fears are mindless and…

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Added by NavyMom93 (DIV: 823) on September 19, 2011 at 2:20pm — 1 Comment

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