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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
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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."
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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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Day One of boot camp
We are very excited , but nervous for our Navy Recruit. We are focused on graduation day. I would love to hear some tipos and tricks to coping and helping my sailor be the best she can be in this experience.
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Comment by Shannon on November 22, 2011 at 8:46pm
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#1 Write every day whether you think she will receive it soon or not. (see LadyHamilton's comment above) Keep the letters upbeat..daily family/pet/friends news. General news of the world if she's interested in that. Favorite comics/newspaper articles. Funny stories.
#2 Have your cell phone on and near you at all times...they get to make calls randomly when it is their time or they do well on something...you don't want to miss a single call. Mine got to call 6 or 7 times and I had to run out of a restaurant one time to talk to my son since it was loud and I couldn't hear him.
#3 When you DO get to talk to her...no tears...I know it is a relief and a joy to hear from her. but they can misinterpret tears. Constantly repeat how proud you are of her and what a joy it is to have her for a daughter...no "i miss you" comments except briefly in passing. You will have to be strong. They are homesick/nervous/scared and need to have you to boost them up emotionally and push them forward. I cried copiously as soon as I hung up the phone each time, and when reading each and every letter, but I never let him see or know that.
#4 PIR will happen before either of you knows it and all those things she thought were so hard/unfair/stupid will be funny stories she regales you with after the ceremony. You will make it and so will she.
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