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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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My son, Bill, also leaves for Basic Training in December. We were originally told Dec.27th but his recruiter told him it would probably be before Christmas. It's suddenly closer and more real then I had ever really believed it would be. Tell me about your son, Adam.
He leaves from ND. He is 23 and leaving on December 20th - so he will also "miss" Christmas. He will be an Intelligence Specialist when he goes to A school training after basic training. I actually live in the Memphis TN area so am hoping to spend a few weeks with him before he leaves. What about your son?
He is 21 and my one and only. He will be a Corpman when he goes to A School. Not sure where yet...we are thinking maybe SanDiego....time will tell. He had moved to SC for about 1 1/2 years and then decided to join when he came home last Christmas. He went back down just to give his job 2 weeks notice, pack up and come home. So we have been blessed to have had this past year together. I have not taken it for granted!
I hope you do get to spend time together...getting used to the idea that you can't pick up the phone or get a plane ticket to see them will take some getting used to. Wow...Intelligence Specialist...it sounds like it is high security? I am really out of the loop with job duties. Whole new world for me!
The December group is DEP-Leavin for bootcamp in December
It's still pretty quiet, few moms have found their way there so far. It's a perennial group, where moms from previous years (like myself) stick around to help the new December folks. Once you know your PIR date (usually about 10 days after they arrive at boot camp) moms from those divisions create a PIR group to discuss specific information about recruits training for that week. Some also create division groups, but there are usually fewer than a dozen loved ones per division on N4M, so the discussions are usually better in the PIR group.
I found the DEP-leaving for bootcamp in December group. There are more of us joining everyday. It's a great group, nice to talk to moms with kids leaving around the same time. My son leaves on the 6th. Going in as a Corpsman.
My son is scheduled to leave Dec. 7th. He will go to MEPS in Shreveport, La.
Hey Adams mom Try this site it has great info as well.
Depper's/future sailors... In, but not gone yet. If you go to the forums and then go down the page it is listed. I have found that is a good site for info. Hope this helps.
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