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What is PIR?
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Permalink Reply by screeminmomma on
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Thanks, boy do I feel dumb :) The hardest part of my son being in the military is going to be learning all the acronyms.
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Permalink Reply by maussie64 on
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Don't feel bad. I'm right there with you 8)) I have been googling the terms.
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Permalink Reply by Arwen on
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PIR, or Pass in Review, is a military parade, a formal review of the troops in front of a review stand for the commander or another dignitary to "inspect the troops." PIRs are common before major deployments and for the celebration of holidays such as the 4th of July.
It is not "graduation" in the technical sense. Technically they "graduate" the day after Battlestations 21, the capping ceremony is their actual graduation ceremony. Once they finished BS21 and received their Navy ballcap they ceased being recruits and became sailors.
The Great Lakes PIR is a formal inspection of the troops for freshly graduated recruits to show off their new military bearing in front of their parents, spouses, friends and other guests.
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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Actually, they were when I was on the Army base. They quit inviting the Navy Det to participate after seeing us march a couple times. The Army loves PIR. The Navy, not so much, eh?
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I've only seen it at Ft. Gordon. Yes, reviewing stand and all. They laughed at us squids. It was embarrassing. And the uniform? Dungarees. Now there's a poor choice for pomp, mmm? But I agree, I never marched after a school, and we did march a bit in Orlando at our PIR. Nothing fancy. Hard as heck on the grass.
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Why would anyone PIR in dungarees? Especially the old demim ones? Ick! We always wore whites (they always seemed to happen in summer). I was in one while in A-school, the whole base did a PIR for the Philadelphia Phillies on the 4th of July. It was way cool. We had detachments from our school, from the USS Kittyhawk (they were in drydock) and several other ships and commands who happened to be in Philadelphia at the time.
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WE didn't choose dungarees. The Army was doing their quarterly PIR in their cammies and told the DET to wear "daily working uniform." That was dungarees. I think our chief had a dangerous sense of humor.
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Experience. Or has this changed? I was in a bunch of them when I was in, they seemed to happen at least twice a year.
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So do we watch the graduation also or just PIR? And so you usually get to spend time with them? I'm scared of flying but I want to go see him do his thing. Trying to figure out how many days I should request off. Course I'm getting ahead of myself since he is just going through processing :)
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Most people refer to PIR as "graduation," since the capping ceremony is not open to parents.
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