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

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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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Dear Chris,

It seems like yesterday that my days began watching you toddle down the stairs, clutching your blanket and twisting your curls. Arriving at the bottom of the stairs you would rub the sleep from your eyes and wrap your arms around my waist. I would hoist you up to my hip and carry you into the kitchen. A brand new day had begun and we would face it together.. the two of us. I remember building snowmen and sledding down Grammy's back yard with you. Grampy pulling you and Grammy along in the red plastic sled that once was mine.

I remember putting you on Santa's knee and struggling to find hiding places for your Christmas gifts. Your first day of school. Your birthday parties. Blowing up balloons, Sesame Street, endless Disney movies, The Rescuers Down Under over and over and over again! The day you learned to ride your bike without training wheels. And then one day, it seemed as if it happened overnight, you were on the phone, on the computer, riding your bike to a friend's house. Suddenly you had a girlfriend. You were on the back yard swing attempting a first kiss. I was taking you to choose a prom tuxedo. Driving you to meet the limo for your senior prom. Snapping photos of this young man... and searching for the remnants of that curly headed little boy who toddled down the stairs into his mommy's arms.

We traveled so many roads together - some as a twosome - always as a team. The best of friends. And suddenly it seemed that our roles had switched and it was me stretching out to you to comfort me in a moment of sadness.. and finding comfort in the embrace of a young man. And then it was time for you to choose a path - a new direction in your life. And here we are.

In your letters I have seen the young man grow and I have seen glimpses of that curly headed little boy. And it is difficult on this first part of your new adventure to not be a part of the everyday. But, I could never begin to tell you how proud I am of you. As parents the best that we can hope for is to raise our children to become hard working, compassionate, responsible adults. To be a person that understands that they are a part of something greater - a family, a friendship, a community, a country, a broad world. To believe that there is a need to be thankful for all the many blessings in your life while understanding that there are so many who have so much less - and that it is the right and just thing to give back, to serve, to help. That is the path that you have chosen and I could never begin to express the pride that I feel.

To me, you will always be the little boy inside of the man. As I watch you grow I can only impart to you what I have learned. Part of you will remain a child forever. No matter how old you get or the experiences that you will have; there will be doubts and insecurities. There will be fear. There will also be great joy and great sorrow. And at times you will want your mommy still.. and that is okay. What we feel is valid - it is what we do however, that defines us. Remember that adversity is a teacher. When you doubt and when you fear - press on. You will surprise yourself as others will also surprise you. There is far more good in this world than there is darkness. Look for the light. Acknowledge the darkness - but do not dwell on it. Love when it seems impossible. Forgive when it seems unacceptable. You will see that you can make a difference - one person, one experience at a time.

This is a great nation. A place founded on the belief that there is strength in diversity and that there is more to be learned and gained by expressing our differences than by forcing conformity to one idea. You have chosen to protect that... and THAT is a noble cause.

I love you and I believe in you. God has given me many gifts in this life - wonderful friends, a loving partner, dedicated and compassionate parents - but none so great as you....

Always,
Mom

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Comment by proudmama (Ship 10 Div 257) on February 16, 2010 at 3:25pm
That is sooo beautiful!! He will always cherish it!
Comment by cmom-Ship04-Div812 on February 26, 2010 at 7:43am
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was wonderful.

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