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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

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**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).

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**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

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Carl Vinson Corpsmen Send Medical Books to Doctors Overseas, Help Improve Quality of Life

Carl Vinson Corpsmen Send Medical Books to Doctors Overseas, Help Improve Quality of Life
2/25/2009
By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kristan Robertson, USS Carl Vinson Public Affairs

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (NNS) -- USS Carl Vinson's (CVN 70) Health Services Department participated in Operation Medical Libraries Feb. 19 and sent excess medical books to facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan where they will be distributed to local doctors and physicians during humanitarian missions.

Operation Medical Libraries was created as a collaboration of publishers, authors, universities, hospitals, and U.S. government agencies to provide formal medical references and materials for students and professionals in areas of the world with limited access to medical information.

"We're sending different types of books, covering everything from general medicine to anesthesia, to help out the doctors in Iraq and Afghanistan in whatever way we can," said Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (SW) Demetria Lomax, a biomedical repair technician on board.

Specifically, the books will be going to four different physicians in Afghanistan and one physician in Iraq. Each request for medical books lists medical literature urgently needed by the local medical clinics, which often includes books on pediatrics, nursing, psychiatry, and emergency medical surgery.

"We have a lot of books that we are retiring, because we will soon be obtaining new editions," said Lt. Eugene Osbourne, Carl Vinson's medical administrative officer. "This way, they will be getting good use at places where there are people that haven't seen a physician, and doctors who are also instructors."

Osbourne explained that Afghanistan's medical infrastructure was devastated during the Taliban regime's tenure in power and doctors are in need of medical literature. With U.S. and NATO forces currently working to bring stability to the region, Operation Medical Libraries comes at just the right time.

"It's a way for Carl Vinson to play a part in supporting the war on terrorism in a different way, by means of civil support and humanitarian assistance that is equally important for the big picture," said Osbourne.

For more news from USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), visit www.navy.mil/local/cvn70/ .