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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

Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.

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:

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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.

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

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September 11

I was home alone tonight (technically) and decided to watch the TLC special on 9/11. I watched for a while, maintaining my original (prior to Justin's going away to BC) emotional control. We have a large-screen TV, probably similar to those found in many middle class homes in America. I was lying on the couch, just watching...then...then...wow...

I glanced up to the right of the screen JUST A LITTLE...where the picture of my son hangs -- his senior picture: leaning against a tree in his suit and tie, crossed arms, crooked half smile.

An elderly man and woman on TV were talking about their son's last minute on American Airlines Flight 11. His voice cracked; she tried discreetly to wipe her eyes.

Floods...hurricanes...of emotion racked my body.

My son...MY SON...your son...your daughter are giving everything they have to see to it that this never happens again.

My son...your son...your daughter are enduring separation from loved ones, interminable yelling, sleepless nights...some are "broken" and doing everything in their power to heal quickly so they can be among those who call home with: "I'm a sailor."

Dear God...please protect our babies as they become men and women who have a yearning to protect us and future generations from the atrocities that afflict so many countries...that affected ours such a few short years ago. Help us never forget...yet help us never know the pain felt by grandparents, moms and dads, and children as they watched those planes bearing their loved ones carry out the ruthless plans of demented souls.

Oh GOD...you know my heart...thank you for my children and for the children of so many other parents...please bless them as they strive to truly become a "global force for good."

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Comment by csolis on September 10, 2012 at 11:43pm: Well said...thank you for your prayers especially for those who are on deployment right now. God bless your son as well.

Comment by Calirose on September 11, 2012 at 12:19am: Thank you for that post. My son leaves for Great Lakes tomorrow and feeling so proud of him but sad for me. Broke my heart today as I listened to him break down and cry as he told his sister good bye. This day took so long to get here and it came so fast at the same time. Thank you to all of the sons and daughters who are serving.

Comment by Worried Mama Ship14/Div300 on September 11, 2012 at 6:52am: That is truly well said, and heart felt. I dont know any parent who doesn't feel a sting of emotions during times like these. My son is in bootcamp now, graduating 9/21 and Im petrified of what happens when he's out of the safety net of bootcamp (if that makes sense), yet Im comforted in the pride I feel knowing my son is one of the many who stepped up to protect. Thank you for your sons commitment, may God protect them all.

Comment by zmom2012 (Div 8 Ship14) on September 11, 2012 at 10:20am: Thank you for your feelings from the heart and pray. To all these brave young men and women I will pray for their safe keeping. My son leaves for bootcamp in 13 days. I'm just know feeling the reality of him leaving. Reading the comments I know I'm not alone. Thank you for your support to the "Moms" and our Sailors. I am VERY proud of my son! He is very excited to be in the Navy. But it's hard to let go. He is leaving as a boy . . next time I see him he will be a man. He will be a Sailor in the US Navy. God Bless them all!

Comment by sailorwifenmom on September 11, 2012 at 11:25am: My husband was in the Persian Gulf when this happened. Our son was 8 yrs old, and even then he wanted to be in the military like Daddy. I remember having a conversation with someone, saying that the world had changed, and that I was afraid my son would be fighting in this war, too.

11 years later, both my husband and my son are in the Navy. I pray for those lost, and whose lives were changed that day, and I pray for the men and women, and their loved ones, who dedicate their lives to protecting us.