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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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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.
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- Graduation Info
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- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
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The Only Girl!
Our daughter just checked into OCS at Newport this past Sunday as a nupoc and we did not hear from her until this evening - apparently she meets her Drill Instructor in the morning - but we had a very bad connection and we couldn't hear much except that she is the ONLY girl in her class!! Because of this, she has a room to herself but she sounded disappointed - I think that it surprised her that there were no other girls and of course, I am a little worried that she doesn't have anyone to room with or another woman to share the experience with or talk with at night. Obviously, she is not a teenager, but I guess I can't help but worry that they will be harder on her or make her feel ostracized or weird or weak (although she is very much in good physical shape). Has anyone had this experience or know of people who have? I'm in kid-withdrawal to begin with, and now I'm more worried.
NupocMom
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Comment by BunkerQB on October 24, 2012 at 2:05pm
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Your daughter is going to be an officer. The Navy would not have accepted her into the OCS program if she was not capable of functioning in any environment delved her. She will be outnumbered now and in the future. If she didn't think she could handle it, she would not have applied to the program. She knew what the ratios were (men/women) in the Navy, in the Officer Candidate School and in the Nuke program. Remind her of this if she expresses doubt.
There will not be any female sailors on fast attack subs any time soon (hot racking would be diffiicult, not enough bathrooms to assign one to female officers). If she is not assigned a carrier, she'll go to boomer.
Have faith in her.
BQB (son - formerly a nuke officer on a sub).
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Comment by NupocMom on October 25, 2012 at 12:30am
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Thank you for your comments - it's easy to lose sight of the bigger picture when you're first sending your child off into the unknown....looking forward to some Bay area get togethers and spending time with other parents.....
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HI NupocMom,
Forgot to tell you that I am very proud that your daughter has chosen this path. It's not always easy to be a trail blazer. I had lunch with hikermom, her son is an enlisted nuke. I'll bet he will get his degree and then go OCS. Look forward to seeing you in the San Fran group more (we have quite a few number of nukes).
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One other thing, my best friend from college has a daughter who is an Intel officer. She was the lone intel officer for a bunch of marines in Afghanistan. Ya, she learned to handle firearms and jump out of airplanes too. :P So, being in a sub or carrier probably seems a lot more "safe" by comparison
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