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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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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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Three More Days
The clock is running out. I'm overwhelmed with emotions about seeing him. My boyfriend graduates from bootcamp this Friday. He has been gone for 7 weeks now. I got very lucky and his graduation is earlier than most. I haven't talked to him since August 30. He told me normally they would allow them to call more, but the division he is in is very disrespectful and "phone calls are a privelege, not a right". I get a letter every week and sometimes twice a week. I keep thinking about how close I am to seeing him. I have been waiting about 48 days so far for this. But it still hasn't hit me quite yet. Maybe it will once I finally get to Chicago or maybe it won't hit me until I finally see him.
I'm so nervous about the silliest things. One of my friends boyfriend is in the Army and she said once he graduated from bootcamp he came out different, but different as in a good way. The new and improved. Haha. I'm a little nervous about that. I know it sounds so crazy for me to be nervous about, but I liked him just the way he was, I don't want him to change. Another thing I worry about is that he won't love me anymore, another ridiculous thought, considering that every letter I get starts off with saying how much he loves and appreciates me. I hope all this anxious feelings are some what regular. I just haven't seen him for so long and I miss him like crazy.
For graduation I got him a little something. :) I got him The Carter Four which I know he will be excited for. About a year ago, I made him all The Carter cds and now I decided to buy this one. Also I got him a beautifully designed book with all my Senior Pictures in it. It was done on online scrapbook so it looks very professional and on every page is another line from the Love Chapeter 1 Corinthians 13. Also I have a book full of pictures of us that I made for him to remember all the great times we had. I also have a little picture frame with a picture of him and I from the day he left. The frame has the words "Love never fails..." written on it. This is all together put into a Spiderman bag. For whoever is reading this, you probably think that is terribly immature, but my boyfriend loves all those Marvel movies and I always got so made at him when he made me watch them. But last but not least is the card I drew for him. Drawing him cards is another tradition of mine. On this card it has a picture of Popeye the Sailor and Olive Oyl. :) Very fitting.
But I should start packing and get my stuff ready to go. The big day is coming.
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