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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.
OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
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Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
Events
**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).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**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
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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- Graduation Info
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SHIP 4 DIV 815
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Permalink Reply by familything on
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Well said NavyDadBill!!! THEY HAVE EARNED IT! Plain and simple.
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Permalink Reply by turtle3 on
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Totally agree NavyDadBill..definately some sour grapes! I bet our guys were totally stoked to get out & do some real physical stuff lol
5 days!!!
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Permalink Reply by MyLAS (My Lips are SEALed) on
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SOOO glad they got the challenge cup. If your SR is like mine, he has worked for years to get to this point. I was hoping for a quick call today. I am so excited!!!!
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Is anyone else as excited as me? I can hardly concentrate at work I just want to get packed & on the plane!! Oh and of course get the call!
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Boarding pass printed and packed!!!! Luggage check printed! Tomorrow I will be in GL.... I will be able to see the base from the road. If you read of someone trying to sneak on base.... well.... who knows? Can't wait to meet you all and see "our" boys Friday.
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Permalink Reply by sday on
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i cannot wait
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Permalink Reply by NavyDaddy on
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My wife and I keep texting back and forth with our son's fiance waiting for one of us to get the call. We're all sitting with our phones ready for a one-ring pickup!
By the way, fellow 815 parents and loved ones, if you ever wonder where our boys get the Gung Ho attitude, check out the number of DIV 815 replies in this Group compared to other Divisions. Just sayin'... :)
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Permalink Reply by sjtina on
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NavyDadBill, a lot of it has to do with this division staying together for so long, the rest go in separate ways. Its like an extended family for these guys. Everyone is pulling for them.
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Okay everyone, it's almost time! Packing tomorrow and boarding that plane bright and early Wednesday morning. I can't stop smiling!
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Permalink Reply by CaliMommaJ on
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Almost there moms and dads! Pray for successful Battlestations for all our boys and we all get that much anticipated phone call! Bags almost packed and ready to go! Kinda cool our boys will become Sailors on the 4th of July!
Safe travels to all! I am sure we all feel like this is the longest week of all- I do and that plane ride will be torture!
See you all Friday- pack plenty of tissues!! -
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bout the day that they become sailors. My husband was sworn in to the army on July 4 (1968!).
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