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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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**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).
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**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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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.
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Leaving for Boot Camp Sept 4, 2012
Hey there! My daughter is leaving for boot camp in less than a week!!! It's a feeling of excitement, nervousness and sadness! Most import is my PROUDNESS! I feel like a peacock.
Anybody else have a child leaving then?
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Comment by lemonelephant on August 30, 2012 at 1:28pm
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Join the Group, DEP-Leavin for bootcamp in September. You will meet others with loved ones leaving the same day/week who may be in the same TG and have PIR together. You may also want to join, or at least check out, Boot Camp Mom's, PIR Reference Information and New Members Stop Here. Be sure to watch in Boot Camp Mom's for information about the PIR group once she is there and join that..
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 you to some good links on there.
(Group names and the link within this comment are clickable links. To join a group, click on the group name and after the group page opens, click on "+ Join..." in the upper right.)
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Comment by Sonya on September 2, 2012 at 6:42pm
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My son leaves from Seattle the same day. I am proud of him and know he is going to be great at whatever he does. At the same time I am so sad and feel lost. I will miss him and miss having contact. I think that is what gets me the most is the no contact.
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My son leaves for MEPS in just a few hours..
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The recruits for each new TG arrive on different days so that everyone isn't at the same point during Processing (P-days) and so that the divisions are staggered when they fill and begin training. That allows for the best use of the RTC personnel and results in less just waiting around for the new recruits since there are shorter lines in P-days. It's the same at the end; they don't all go through Battle Stations-21 on the same night--one to four divisions go through at one time.
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ScaredmomSandy, the Navy has Sailors, but they are not referred to as Sailors until they have completed training at the RTC and have passed Battle Stations-21 and exchanged the Recruit cap for the NAVY cap. Until then, you will refer to your future Sailor as SR or Recruit. Note that all recruits are SR at BC even if they have a contract for E-2 (SA, CA, or FA) or E-3 (SN, CN, or FN).
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My son left from Niagara Falls, NY on Tuesday. Went to the swearing in and to the airport. Received the phone call at 9:00 pm last night that he made it. Roller Coaster of emotions yesterday and still today. Hardest part is not being able to say Good Night, love you, see you in the morning. But, just think......they are doing such a great thing and they will do great things. Anyone that I have talked to that was in the military does not have any regrets for doing it. Some wished they would have stayed longer. Just us being mommas I guess. It is our nature tro worry about them. All will be well.......I keep telling myself this. Good Luck to all your recruits. Maybe we will all meet up at PIR. I hear it is an amazing day!!!!
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Comment by sdnettles on September 13, 2012 at 6:38pm
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Yes,
My daughter left out on the 4th from Charleston and landed in Chicago on the 5th. Very proud of her but miss her like crazy. Received the "BOX' on Monday but to date, have not received an address. very anxious, but am keeping a daily journal of happenings so I can send out once I receive the address.
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ScaredmomSandy, please tell me how I could have provided you with that information without offending you. There is a problem with the printed word that allows the reader to read into the comment whatever tone that the reader chooses. Apparently and understandably your feelings were close to the surface since your SR was getting ready to leave or had just left when you read the comment, but this caused you to read into the comment something that is not there. I meant no offence, just to let you know the correct terms to use.
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I have reread the statement and don't find it "rude" or "uncalled for"; so that won't work. I think that you would have been offended if I had said, "Until then, the correct terms to use for your future Sailor are SR or Recruit." or "Until you receive the 'I'm a Sailor!' call, you should refer to your future Sailor as SR or Recruit." I asked you how I could have provided that information without offending you and yet you did not give me a sentence that I could have used. Yes, it is always correct to refer to him as your Son.
I am one of the seasoned members who answers frequently on this site and my responses are often straight-forward and yes, I have been accused of being "rude" before even though I don't intend that when I provide information. Yes, I do reread what I am about to post and then after I post information to try to be clear and sensitive to the feelings of those reading and sometimes delete and repost. It just doesn't always work because you can read whatever tone you choose into any statement.
I hope that you will stick around for there is a lot of information and support on this site and room for all points of view. (((((ScaredmomSandy))))) That's a cyber hug and I hope that as time goes on that you become less scared.
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