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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

Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind.  In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships."  OPSEC is everyone's responsibility. 

DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.  

DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."

Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

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:

RTC Graduation

**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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Hi Jacqueline,

With you, me and Keve323 there are three of us now!  Question of the day...did your SR have marching experience or is their placement here a surprise to you as well?

I am completely baffled.  My son does not sing, dance, or play a musical instrument.  I have never even see him play gazoo or air guitar.  Is there some secret ploy to torture our enemies with very bad music?  I can't wait for the first real letter.  Perhaps there will be some clues there.

I am feeling the same way : ) He only wrote that it is the best of the best! Which make me very proud how can we find what else they can be doing ?

lol we are all baffled on how our kids got picked for that division. I can't wait to get the 1st real letter too, him explaining that one. hehehehehe.

I did ask my sailor who went through this 18 months ago and he said another thing they look for are recruits who are not in danger of not passing the pt test and the swimming test because practices interfere with the extra help they would need to pass their tests. My son would fall into that group.

Ahhhh, makes total sense now. My son also falls into that group.

Whats a staff DIV? Is that good...bad...or sucky?

Really? wow that would be awesome! Does your SR have a calling card? I sent my son a couple of them the other day.

I am happy to hear about the phone calls but just be aware that schedule can and will change. My other son was told the same thing about calling home every week and yet after the first one, there were no more extra calls. My son missed one because they had pulled his wisdom teeth and was considered SIQ (sick in quarters) another time they marched the entire division up to the phones and then told them no one would be making calls because they had not performed well enough. Be really gratefull when you get them but know they won't often come as promised.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

**crickets**

The only letter we've received is the form letter welcoming us to the Navy with a short note from our son. Is that the letter you're asking about?

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