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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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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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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By counting 9 Fridays, your PIR will most likely be on 01/10/2014, but because you are arriving on a Tuesday, it could also be 01/03/2014 if you end up in a Push Division from the TG from the week before. It could also be the week after, 01/17/2014, if the RTC skips a week and does not hav PIR, which happens around the holidays. You will not know until you fill out the form letter and your family cannot make plans until they get the form letter. (See Arrival and What Happens at the RTC.)
An E3...that's awesome. Good luck with your leadership efforts. Even if you're not selected for leadership, you can still challenge for at least some of the leadership positions.
STUDY! My son left for boot camp in August, and I'll give you the same advice I gave him: "The more you prepare, the easier boot camp will be." This has proven to be true. Would you rather learn a little every week at home or everything in two or three weeks while sleep deprived in unfamiliar surroundings with strange new duties, people yelling, and pay, graduation, and IT on the line? Prepare and rank up from E1 to E2 in boot camp by passing the first test (stuff in your Start guide) and the first PFA.
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Be sure to check out the discussion, Things to Do in the Last Month Before Your Future Sailor Leaves for the RTC. You may want to join http://www.navydep.com to learn the ins and outs from the DEP point of view. Craig runs that and will steer you to some good links on there. Best wishes and thank you for your upcoming service to our country!