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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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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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The waiting continues.....
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Comment by preston8655 on October 26, 2010 at 6:43pm
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I know you are anxious to get that first letter. Be patient it'll come and you will be so proud, maybe short but you will be happy to get that short note my son will be graduating next fri 11/5 and I can't wait to see him. Hang in there, keep them letters goin.
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Comment by chandlersmom on October 26, 2010 at 7:30pm
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No letters yet either!! Week 3
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Comment by NM Loreta-Ship11,Div002 PIR11/19 on October 27, 2010 at 7:40am
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I soooooo know the waiting is painful! My son is in week 5 at BC and I just wanted to tell you that it is so wonderful hearing from him now (phone/letters). His letter tone and voice on the phone has changed so much! Its hard for us to understand but it seems it gets alot easier for them in BC as the weeks go one. In talking to my son last sunday, he acutally said he is having FUN?!?!?! So keep your chin up....it gets better for them (and you!). I FINALLY was able to remove my son's 'kid in the box clothes' from the box that I sleep next to every nite and wash them. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh what a difference a few weeks make!
I still marvel every single day at just how amazingly brave these KIDS are. Mostly the girls. I consider myself a strong person but not sure I am brave enough to ever do what they girls are doing for our country. Amazing!
Before BC, someone told my son to focus on meal to meal time versus day to day until PIR and the time moves fast. I too took that advise and the few times I talked to my son, he told me it worked. I know its worked for me...although TODAY..I counted 23 days till PIR..lol.
I write every day as well. He proabaly wants to kill me because I write in cards or put letters in cards and the last week or so has ALL been orange envelopes. He probaby is getting crap in bc BUT..he would expect nothing else from me..ha! Keep positive and keep writing! He did say they keep him going and he LOVES them.
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Comment by Rayma on October 27, 2010 at 10:01pm
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Ah, I do remember when my daughter went to boot camp and the waiting for that first letter was such torture! I was such a basket case and my husband, who was a Master Chief in the Navy at that time, called and checked up on her. She was fine of course, she was just so busy that writing a letter was secondary to sleeping and eating. When she did finally write, the letters were short spurts of "I miss home and I am fine". We had quite a letter campaign going on for her, I doubt there was a day she did not receive a letter or card from a family member or friend. I too thought that perhaps we may have over done the letters but she later said that receiving mail was the one major highlight in her day. Sometime we just sent her an article about her old high school, or even a funny cartoon from the newspaper, but if it brought a smile to her face it was well worth it. My advice is to hang it there, and keep sending your daughter mail, you will one day receive that "I miss you mom" letter in the mail. My daughter has been in the Navy now for 13 years and texting has now become our main method of communication, and that works just fine for me. I am a proud Navy mom....
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