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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
...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
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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
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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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Heartbroken mom
My son leaves for BC on June 3rd, wow it is getting harder the closer it gets! Everyone says oh, you should just be proud, which I am, but I am so heartbroken right now, I can't feel anything else. His dad and step dad and aunts and uncles are like so happy for him and keep telling me I should be also, I feel like nobody understands, I am his mom. I feel so selfish and numb. I do not break down in front of him, but dreading the day he leaves.... Bootcamp and six years is what I cannot get my head/heart around. I don't want him to push me away because everyone is so supportive and I am so sad.
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Comment by lemonelephant on May 21, 2013 at 8:29pm
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kelly, you are very welcome.
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Comment by Liberty on May 21, 2013 at 11:34pm
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Thank you that helped make sense of the different division that he will most likely join at Boot Camp. I don't know how people learn all of this if they are not on this website! It is so helpful!
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Anchormom, you are very welcome. I'm glad to help.
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Comment by jojo on May 22, 2013 at 1:20pm
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Kelly, is your son going to Boot Camp in Chicago?
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jojo, the Navy's only boot camp is in Great Lakes, near Chicago.
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Ohhhh, I have so much to learn lol!! I just need to find some time to go through all of these links! So Kelly's and my son will be BC at the same time.
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jojo, yes, they will and since they are both Special Ops, they may even be in the same 800 division.
Start with checking out Things to Do in the Last Month Before Your Future Sailor Leaves for... and joining DEP-Leavin for bootcamp in June and Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones).
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Oooh, alot to learn!!! lol
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His recruiter said he doesn't know my son's yet, he will let me know everything a couple days after he leaves? How did you find out his division?
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jojo, all special ops recruits are in an 800 division. You won't know the particular number until a few days after he arrives when you receive the form letter--yes, you will get the form letter faster than others and will get the form letter about the same time you get "the box".
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