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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 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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Thank you all for the warm welcome. I will be visiting the group a lot for support. Don't know why I am so emotional - the kid went thru HS and College with Honors and has always be very physically fit. I am going to spend time reading older posts. Sylvas - My husband agreed big time with your comment on what I read and say on the sites. He was in the marines - B.A.(Before Amanda)
Terri - thank you for your info. I don't have Facebook - never have. Can my two other children check it out on their facebooks? I can't keep my mind off my son. It's only day 2!
Amanda1965: Make sure you join your son's OCS facebook page. You will receive valuable information! Write your son, they love hearing about everyday things that are happening at home. My son is starting week 10 and it actually has gone by fast. Good luck to you and your son!
Sylvas: Congratulations on your son's graduation! Weren't you just bursting with pride? Where is your son headed next?
Welcome Amanda1965. Stand by for that first phone call you will get in the next 48 hrs. After that you probably won't hear much from him until they get email privileges about week four. Just remember: NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS. That means he is still in the program and hasn't quit, or been "rolled" back to the next class. Read back on these postings here as far back as you can. We have probably answered many of your questions here already. Start writing lots of encouraging "snail mail" letters to him, but read the OCS Letter Regulations in the discussion forum above. Make sure anyone with his mailing address knows these rules! Mail is the only contact they have with the outside world for a few weeks, so they love mail from home!!!
Welcome MomOfNavyBoy! Read back in this forum as far back as you can. We have had several new OCS Moms join recently and we have probably answered many of your questions already here. Also check out the Discussion Forum above the posts here for "OCS Letter Regulations." You will want to make sure everyone you give your son's OCS mailing address to knows the rules so they don't innocently get your LO in trouble with the Drill Instructor! Sylvas: Your LO should be close to being past the worst of it now! Once they pass the Room-Locker-Personnel inspection in week four, then they can breathe a little easier!
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