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Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.
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:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
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- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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Comment by Anti M on July 3, 2013 at 6:43pm
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If he is in A school for Christmas, he will get to take leave and come home. Two weeks is usual for training commands. What rate will he be? (his job) and we may be able to figure out of that's a possibility or not.
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Comment by Jordan'Mom Ship 13 Div 333 on July 3, 2013 at 7:05pm
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He is MAA and he goes to San Antonio for A school following his PIR
From what I'm reading from here, he won't be home for Christmas...but the way I have it figured he will be for Thanksgiving (I think)
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Comment by lemonelephant on July 3, 2013 at 7:11pm
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Jordan'Mom, your future Sailor will be at his first command for Christmas since MA "A" School is only 7 weeks. You'll most likely have to have an early Thanksgiving while he is home on leave between "A" School and his first duty station. He most likely will not be able to have leave for Christmas if he takes leave after "A" School, which I suggest that he does and that he does RAP duty and helps his recruiter during that so that he can get 5 days of unchargeable leave credited to him once he gets to his first duty station. Depending on where he is stationed and where your home is from that, he may get to go home for Liberty, but I really wouldn't count on it since you are located in the middle of the US and the US bases where MA's are stationed are not near the middle of the US.. My MA has not been home for Christmas since enlisting--he left for his first duty station only a few days before Christmas in 2008. That is the reality of Navy life.
Be sure to check out the discussion, Things to Do in the Last Month Before Your Future Sailor Leaves for the RTC.
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And it's the"reality" of Navy life that we are trying to grasp. ...both of us
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Comment by Paulamamabear Ship13Div311 on July 3, 2013 at 8:15pm
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I swear I thought this was something that I wrote when I first read it. You and your son sound exactly like me and my son. I'm only a couple of weeks ahead of you. About a week before my son left (which was June 20th) he got really moody and snippy. I really, really didn't want to ruin the last couple of days with him by fighting with him. So I told him that he's just getting nervous and he's venting in the wrong manner. Don't alienate the people that love you most just because you are redirecting you feelings into something you do understand. That did it, he immediately changed (which is not usual for him to change so quickly). Later he said that he's excited but a little nervous because he won't know anybody. I had to remind him that, that was one of the things he wanted. New friends and new adventures.
I'm not going to lie to you, your worst days are ahead of you. I have never in my life cried such soul wrenching cries in my life. It took me a week before I could even go into his room. Of course, when I did I found a letter that he had written to me that was so mature and thoughtful it made me feel better and cry at the same time.
My son is also going to San Antonio as an MA. This website has been a huge help! It nice to know that there are other Moms out there that do understand exactly how you feel.
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