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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.
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Comment by Cheyann on July 8, 2015 at 12:35pm
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Here is the Facebook page for friends and family of the the class of 17-15. That is those who report to OCS on July 5th, 2015.
Hope to meet you soon!
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Comment by Anna on July 7, 2015 at 11:24pm
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M's mom,
Gotta love those plans we make when heading to a beach and then have Mother Nature have other plans. My son is in Norfolk now (although presently he is deployed) and I was able to visit a year ago in early May. It was beautiful weather and we got to spend some time on the beach!!! I really hope we get a chance to visit with him and his family between the time he comes back from this deployment and before they leave for Hawaii!!!
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Anna: The officer's intel school is also at Dam Neck , which is an annex of Oceana, but no one outside of the intel community has heard of it, so I just say he was at Oceana. It's only a few miles away. My son said he shopped at the NEX at Oceana because it was close to his off-base apartment. When we went to Virginia Beach for DS's graduation from intel school, we got a hotel right on the beach and had hoped to enjoy some fun in the sun since it was June, but a tropical storm hit the day after we arrived, and it rained for three days!!!! My son said that wasn't as bad as when hurricane Sandy roared through VB the previous October. Glad we missed that!
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VA not WA!!!!
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M's mom,
That is a crazy, yet special story!!! Who would have guessed. My son went to Dam Neck for IS school. I guess they use Oceana for the officers. Although he was stationed at Oceana for his first 4 years when he was an AO. He deployed on the Geo Washington and the Enterprise. I love that whole area of WA - Norfolk, Oceana, VB, the ocean . . .
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GalleyMom: Norfolk is a nice area. My son was in Intelligence School for 8 mos. at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, which just out on the coast from Norfolk.
When DS was a teenager, we visited Norfolk and VB on a vacation. Never dreamed at the time that he would one day be stationed there in the Navy! If you visit your son in Norfolk, make sure you check out the Nauticus museum in downtown Norfolk. It's all about ships, and the battleship USS Wisconsin is there to tour.
In a weird coincidence, when we were at Nauticus about ten yrs ago with our then-teenaged son, he bought a big poster at the gift shop with drawings of one of each kind of all the US Navy warships. There was a missile cruiser, a destroyer, an aircraft carrier, several kinds of subs, etc. It is still hanging in "his" room today. (I've gotta clean that out one of these days!) A few months ago while he was deployed, I went in his room and just happened to look up at that poster, and the aircraft carrier depicted is CVN-70, the USS CARL VINSON, the very ship he was then aboard !!!!!!!! (goosebumps) I had never really looked at that poster in ten years, but there was his ship! Felt one of those strange mother/child psychic connection moments!!!!
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GalleyMom: Yes, it is hard on the sailors' "significant others" when their LO's are away on a ship. My son just celebrated his second wedding anniversary and he was gone for 10 months of it, at sea on the carrier USS Carl Vinson. But, his wife knew what she was getting into when they got married. My husband and I kept in touch with D-I-L and sent her little care packages so she felt our support. She will be able to go with him to his next duty station at a base in Japan, so they are both happy about that.
What kind of a ship will your son be assigned to, and where is its home port? (You don't have to tell the ship's name if you think that might be too sensitive info.) Hopefully, he and the GF can make things work out.
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GalleyMom: ha ha! When my son was in OCS, we were told to be CAREFUL about what we posted on our class's Facebook page because OCS was monitoring these pages! Apparently there were instances where somebody posted about how mean and unfair a certain DI was, and it resulted in punishment for the candidates! Make sure your class's Facebook page knows this. You could post, "MY son says his DI "Smith" is the most respectful, encouraging, and motivating leader ever!" LOL
BTW, when is your son's graduation date?
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Anna,
Thanks for the offer, but I hope I won't have to post a plea for bail money! ha ha I will just have to be more careful in knowing that Big Brother Navy is probably reading this also!
Since our sons are both in Intel, and don't tell us much about what they do, wouldn't it be ironic if one of them had the job to monitor this website for subversive postings? I hope my son doesn't email me sometime and write, "Mom, you've got to stop sharing so much on N4M's." Me: "WHAT???" hahaha
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M'sMom,
Sorry you didn't know about who ran this site but I don't think you have to worry about men showing up at your front door!!! I'm sure the Sec of the Navy has a sense of humor. There are actually brochures the Navy put out about N4Ms. If you have a recruiting office nearby see if they have any. They are pretty sweet!!!!
Oh, if it the worst happens and they come for you, I'll be a character witness for you!!!!!! ha ha ha
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