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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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**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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Glad you got the link. I just started on FB since Katie said there was an official USS Essex page and there I have also linked to the 7th Fleet.
Hope your son continues to do well and glad he is looking foward to Japan. Sasebo is a much smaller base than Yokosuka.
http://www.c7f.navy.mil/
The above link will get you to the 7th fleet site. There pictures, news, forces, etc. If you click on Forces - you will see all the ships in the 7th fleet. There is only 1 LHD- there a LSD and 2 LPDs. So he may be in Sasebo on the USS Essex if he said LHD.
Cathyo,
I had to get a new cell phone today because my old one was having major issues. I was nervous that my son would call and I might miss it. So I got this thing and went to work with it. I was showing the phone to my co-workers when it started ringing and lo and behold...the number said Great Lakes!! I panicked because I couldn't figure out how to answer the thing! Lol! Probably was mainly panicking because I saw where the call was coming from! So yup! It was my son! Just calling for some reference info...but I got to talk with him for about 5 minutes. He sounded very content and so far ...well adjusted. He was happy to be out of the official sweat suit and dressed in camo instead. I asked him about the rolled up pants...lol...and he said he didn't know why they made them do it. Not a very satisfying answer....but...well...I guess they just didn't bother to tell them why. Probably not a big deal. He said it was great to hear my voice...sniff sniff. But the best part was that he sounded so ...easy...and content. Really took a load a off my mind for sure. He also said that they were all issued some writing material and stamps.
He said the form letter should arrive any day and that his PIR is 2/11.
So anyway...I thing things are going okay for our boys!
Cathyo,
My son left from Albany on the 7th. We live in VT. Have you gotten your form letter? I assume you got the box?
Sorry I missed your post cathyo. Do you live in Albany? Or did he just leave from MEPS there? Do you know his ship/div yet?
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