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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.
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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."
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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My SR graduates July 20th and he is suppose to fly out the next day to Nuke School in South Carolina. I was wondering i we will be able to go to Chicago for the day. I have heard different things on what is allowed. I am trying to plan things to do so we do not waste the day wondering what to do. If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.
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Comment by ebigirl on July 8, 2012 at 1:42am
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I would wait to plan anything until you know what your SR wants to do. You will have 7-8 hours with him before he has to be back at RTC and in his rack at a certain time. Then they will bus your SR to the airport in the middle of the night. He will have the details. We met our son at the airport at 4:30am and stayed with him until about an hour before his flight left. Don't spend a ton of time planning things. Your son has been on "lockdown" for 8 weeks, and most likely just wants to eat, spend time with you, eat again, and veg.
He CANNOT take ANYTHING back to RTC with him. NO cell phone....NOTHING!! If you have things to give him you will need to meet him at the airport to give them to him. This is a very strict policy, and one that could land him in huge trouble if he does take anything back with him.
After PIR, they must stay in their dress whites and full uniform when in public. If he goes back to your hotel with you, he can change into comfy clothes as long as he stays in the room. My son wanted to buy himself and his girlfriend new cell phones, eat, propose to his gf (yes, you read that right), and then veg in our hotel room. Before taking him back to RTC he wanted to eat again!! Somethings never change. :-)
Have a good time at PIR...it will be HOT weather wise!!! Enjoy every minute you have with your son, it goes by very quickly.
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Denise...today is your son's last day? Wow, that came very fast. How are you feeling about this?
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Please thank him for his service for me. I still think he got a raw deal! That's just the mom in me. I'll keep you both in my thoughts and prayers. I hope your going to remain active here. What would I do without your pictures and awesome sense of humor??? :-)
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