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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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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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A Mother's Apprehension
I'm positively sure I am not the only one to feel the way I have been feeling this past week. When my son Adam was graduating high school he wasn't sure what he wanted to do. Every now and then he would mention the Navy and I would discuss the possibility with him, but he never really committed. We discussed college and he decided that the community college would be a good place for him to start. Signed up, took all of the tests and a week before it was to start he said he didn't want to go.
So now what? My husband and I always said that our children (4 of them) would get a college education. We wanted them to have a better go at life than we did. Our two older daughters both graduated with 4 year degrees and are having success in their respective careers. But Adam was different. He's a "motor head." All he likes to do is work on his cars. He graduated with honors from high school without even putting any effort into it. ((We always said he would be dangerous if he did work hard for something!) When he told us he wanted to join the Navy we were very supportive. Maybe I was more than my husband, but only because he's his only son - he will be losing his hunting, fishing, Duck Dynasty watching partner. I on the other hand have seen his passion for doing something that none of his friends has done.
After about a year of going back and forth to the recruiters, signing papers, getting waivers, he was finally accepted in on December 6, 2012. He leaves for Boot Camp on May 6th, which is coming up very quickly!
Now the panic is setting in. We come from a family that hasn't seen any military action since my father was in the Army during the Korean War (Signal Corp). My husband's family hasn't had any military as far as I know ever. I feel I am clueless on a lot of things. I wake up at night sweating after dreaming of him leaving over and over again. Even his sisters are starting to worry about him (not that they never did, but now he will be so far away). His younger sister, his partner in crime, can't even discuss the topic of him leaving. His one sister is getting married in December of this year and we are all in a panic over whether he will be able to be home for the wedding.
I know these are normal feelings. Just dealing with them on a day to day basis is getting a little overwhelming. We will take each day that we have left with him and try to make the best of it (if we can get him away from his car long enough)!
Thanks for listening
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Comment by BunkerQB on March 14, 2013 at 2:33pm
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You should make contact with this person - she has a recruit leaving for BC on the same day.
http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/may-2013-boot-camp
"Motor heads" are going to do just fine in the future. My son who was a nuke officer on a submarine is now working in the civilian world. My son indicated to me that mechanist and mechanics will be highly sought-after in the future because the current generation of people with skills are all retiring. My son graduated from a top engineering school with honors before joining the Navy. Your son may "discover" education and decide to take classes and get his degree courtesy of the Navy. I'll bet he'll end up with a technical degree and will do just great in the Navy or in the civilian world. Enjoy your time with him. Find your support groups here and you too will be able to survive and do fine too.
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Comment by lemonelephant on March 14, 2013 at 7:27pm
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You are not alone. You have come to the right place and have joined some good groups for information and support. In DEP-Leavin for bootcamp in May you will find others with loved ones leaving around the same time who may end up in the same TG and maybe even the same division. Before long you will want to check out the discussion, Things to Do in the Last Month Before Your Future Sailor Leaves for the RTC (clickable link).
Your future Sailor may want to join http://www.navydep.com to learn the ins and outs from the DEP point of view. Craig runs that and will steer him to some good links on there.
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Comment by Jesmom6 on March 14, 2013 at 10:36pm
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Thanks for your kind words and advice. I know he will be fine. He was able to choose his job because of his good asvab score so he will enjoy what he will be training for. He's not worried about a thing. So I should just be calm, right?
I have been on this site so much lately looking for information and I believe it has been a great help.
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Comment by Koltsmom on March 17, 2013 at 9:25pm
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Jesmom6. My son did one year of college before he enlisted his story sounds just like your sons he graduated Feb 8 from bc and is. In nuke school he is so happy and doing so well your son will do the same he will be safe and will be successful. Be happy and be proud you have raised a HERO......
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It's heartwarming to hear others stories about how much their son/daughter is enjoying the navy. I know my son will do well....if I could just get through these next few weeks without tearing up every time I talk about him leaving. My oldest daughter got a quiet earful today as I was talking about him. You know....dead silence until you say "I have to blue my nose!" Lol. I have to keep reminding myself he's grown now and is doing what he believes in, as we do too. Rambling again....
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