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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
...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 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
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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Make at least change 3 at the bottom of OPSEC and PERSEC (Making Changes to Your Profile) (clickable link) and change the Privacy Settings for this page from "Anyone" to "Members."
There may be other changes you need to make as well change 4???, so read and consider each of the changes.
You may want to check out Bangor/Bremerton/Kitsap Sailors and Family.
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lol, I am sure she won't really hurt 'em hopefully she has them by now :-)
Yeah I was thinking about that too! LOL. I will definately let everyone know what he has to say. He was a captain of his wrestling team for 3 years and has always been a leader so he might be getting frustrated with the demerits because it probably is out of his control.
LOL - yes, you probably will need a rental. I know that Milwaukee is about 45 minutes from Great Lakes, not sure about Midway or O'Hare. You may be able to cab from there. All you have to do is call the Navy Lodge (847-689-1485) and tell them you want to reserve a room for boot camp grad on 11/23. They will take all your info and since you aren't military they will make the reservation under your son's name - he will be your sponsor. You just need him to come in and verify that you are together sometime during your stay. Come on over to the PIR group discussion - besides us mom's who are all new to this there are a bunch of veteran moms who have great insight into the whole process. Call them soon though - my guess is that they fill up fast.
That is awesome that they swore in together and flew out together. I'll have to let Brandon know. I almost missed his swearing in because he thought I was only coming down if he called me to let me know what time it was going to be. I told him I was coming regardless and I was there waiting. I finally asked and they rushed me back to the room as they were in the middle of the ceremony.
I do work - at an engineering company in Mission Valley - I'm a secretary. I just have to request the time off so that won't be a problem.
I AM in SD!! I've met another friend on here that is close by - 760 area code, about 45 minutes north of here I think. I think it's kinda cool to have people in the same area going through this at the same time. It's actually my son who is at Great Lakes - I'm Jenn, his name starts with a B - I can see how that would be confusing. My name actually had his name included in it when I first started here but then when he finally left I made myself a little more general. Anyway - I'm flying out of here on Southwest on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and then coming home on Friday. I'm not sure when my son will leave for A school, but the flights back home on Saturday were really expensive and had a couple stops and I will more than likely be flying with my infant daughter so I wanted to try and get as few stops as possible. Are you a member of the PIR group? The group is not huge but there are 5 or 6 of us that have been chatting pretty regularly about travel plans and where we are staying and about possibly doing a big Thanksgiving dinner together. You should check it out. I can't attach the link here (not computer savvy enough), but it's the group for PIR 11/23/2011.
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