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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.
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
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The steps from boot to first ship assignment
My goddaughter is reporting to boot on August 14, 2013 and she wants to be an ET in the NP. I’m trying by looking at info on this site and determine what her flow will be from RTC to her first ship assignment. Do I have the steps listed below correct, along with the correct times to complete each step? Thank you in advance for the info. Mark.
Boot - 8 weeks in Great Lakes IL – RTC
Navy Military Training NMT in SC 8 weeks
Nuclear Field A School NFAS in SC 24 weeks
Navy Nuclear Power School NNPS in SC 18 weeks
Nuclear Power Training Unit NPTU in either Charleston SC or in Ballston Spa NY 24 weeks
Choose ship type and home port. Orders based on class standings. My sailor wants CVN so home port should be one of the following:
Bremerton, WA
Norfolk, VA
San Diego, CA
Everett, WA
Yokosuka, Japan
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Comment by Anti M on March 22, 2013 at 8:48am
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On paper, that is correct. But there is also a hurry up and wait factor. What you haven't considered is if there are hold times between schools, and the holiday stand downs, and possible hold times waiting for orders. The whole thing, start to finish, takes roughly two years.
Join the nuke moms group and you can get feedback about how long the schools are taking in real life lately. My nephew is a nuke EM, took just about two years for him to graduate.
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I call it Glakes. Fast, and we know what it means.
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Comment by lemonelephant on March 22, 2013 at 3:16pm
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Also, your goddaughter is a Future Sailor while she is in DEP and then a Recruit or SR while at BC, She will not be a Sailor until she completes Battle Stations-21 (BST) and removes her Recruit ball cap and replaces it with the Navy ball cap.
BC is 7-10 weeks with the average being 8 1/2 weeks (and that could change for a particular recruit if something were to happen) and as Anti M indicated, there can be other things that can slow things down after leaving BC. Hold times before classing up at each stage can be very short (a week or 2) or up to several months.
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Comment by Torisgodfather on March 22, 2013 at 4:51pm
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Sir I appoligize as no disrespect was intended. I was lead to believe that Great Lakes was commenly call this by Navy personel due to the fact that recruits often do make mistakes. Again no offence intended. Mark
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Thank you all for the info as both Tori and I appreciate you sharing your experiences with us. God bless all of are troops and know we are proud of all of our men and women in all branches of the service. Mark.
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