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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
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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:
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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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Permalink Reply by Familyof6 on
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Hello! I am a very new mom to all of this. My oldest of four sons left July 24th. I SOOOO wish I had looked for a site like this one beforehand it would have helped so much! There is a link somewhere on the main page -- something about what to do in the month before your son leaves -- I would start there. To give you a basic time line of what we encountered. My son swore in last November 2016 at his first MEPS, was scheduled to ship out September 12th 2017 (he had to finish his senior year of high school), but arrived at his second MEPS July 24th. We watched his swearing in and then he went in a van to RTC Great Lakes. We received the scripted phone call (I got in a quick "I love you we are proud of you") prior to him hanging up. This all on the Monday, July 24th. I believe I received his box later that week (Thursday), opened it, but still can't find it in my heart to wash his stinky clothes! The letter came the beginning of the following week so we could start sending letters. I anticipate our first "real" letter sometime late next week and perhaps a phone call the week after. Waiting is SOOO much harder than I thought; but no news is good news. We did start writing our first letter to him while we were waiting for him to get sworn in at MEPS. We write daily. I number the letters and every day I mail one out in the USPS; we always have a few ready to go. This is a fantastic support; you will get all of your questions answered here. Most you will find in the groups or forums so just page through the site. Once you receive the form letter and then have his graduation date there will be more sites open to you. I am very new but if you have questions lmk and I'll see if I can find the answers for you. So proud for you and your son!!!
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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Join the group, DEP-Leavin for bootcamp in August. You will meet others with loved ones leaving 08/15/2017 or that week who may be in the same TG and have PIR together.
I left more info to help you prepare on your My Page.
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Permalink Reply by Navymomof4 on
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Thank you for all your help. It's a big relief knowing I have somewhere to go to talk to others in my same situation.
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Be sure to check your My Page.
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