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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.
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:
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:
**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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
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Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
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Discussion Forum
Care packages for new graduates (a school)
Started by Cali's mama. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Mar 19, 2021. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Looking for current information for my daughter on what's allowed for care packages..idk if it matters that she is in the great lakes location or not..ship 7 div 136...lonely mom with confused tears lol
Bootcamp arrival Sept 8, 2020??
Started by Stephanie0725. Last reply by Shoosh Oct 5, 2020. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Hello! Got the call that my daughter made it to bootcamp quarantine last night 09/08/2020. Looking for other moms out there on the same timeline. Sadie is my baby, only daughter, and only child in the military. I think I am going to need lots of…Continue
PIR DATE: December 13, 2019
Started by Donita. Last reply by Donita Nov 5, 2019. 5 Replies 0 Likes
Anyone else’s recruit have a PIR date ofDecember 13, 2019?Continue
Arrived at boot camp October 2nd
Started by Donita. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Nov 5, 2019. 26 Replies 1 Like
Hey everyone- my daughter left for boot camp October 2nd. I missed a call from her last Friday telling me that her graduation is December 13th. I feel like the worst mom in the world for missing her call. Really didn’t expect her to call so soon but…Continue
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Comment by sarahsmom on October 5, 2015 at 11:48pm
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I do not know the model number. It was the baby G and is all black.
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Comment by JayDee659 on October 5, 2015 at 10:59pm
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Sarah can you tell me a model number on the g shock? There are so many out there. My daughter loves cool watches so this sounds like the ticket!
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Hi Anna. I guess Virginia didn't get a direct hit but my husband is a cat adjuster has just been assigned a bunch of claim in VA. Good news is that work=pay, bad new is now its just me and the dog children at howe. Gonna be a rough week getting adjusted.
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Shawna, We had a blanket made for our daughter's PIR. It has about 35 photos of the family and pets growing up and recent. She loves it and has it on her bed at A school. She says it makes her feel close to the family. We also gave her a challenge coin. A sister made a matching pillow with different photos and some of her siblings went together on a G shock. She loved all the gifts.
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Comment by Anna on October 5, 2015 at 3:26pm
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Jean,
We need a 5 day weekend and a 2 day workweek!!!!
JayDee,
Sorry I'm late in wishing you a Happy Birthday!!! Got on early Saturday but then missed all the posts the rest of that day!!! So happy that you heard from your daughter and that she is doing well. And congrats on getting her rating she wanted!!
Rebeccachaplain,
So happy to hear your daughter is doing so well in A school. Yes, what would we do without all these modern forms of communication?? I just got to skype with oldest son and little granddaughter yesterday!!!
Shawna,
So glad you got your phone call plus the form letter with her PIR info. We really didn't do a graduation gift for our daughter except for spending time with her. But a couple ideas I can think of: a nice black watch she can wear with her uniform, a new duffle bag and or garment bag which she will use anytime she travels after bootcamp. My daughters both have a digie blue duffle bag with wheels and a handle that then they can fold up and stuff in a closet when not in use. They got them at a NEX. If all else fails, a VISA bank card she can use for whatever she may want!!! Including a pizza for dinner!!!
Oleander's suggestion of a watch sounds good!!!
Hope no one is having to deal with all the flooding in the Carolinas and Virginia. I'm a little relieved to know our Sailor Son and his family left Virginia Beach just last week, now in Hawaii!!! Daughter Catherine is in the DC area but haven't heard of any problems from her. I think it's rained off and on every day since we got here to Florida. I thought this was the sunshine state?!?!?!
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Shawna - my daughter keeps asking me to "send a nap in the mail". :) We're planning on heading back to the hotel after the ceremony and allowing her to sleep for awhile as part of her gift. Silly maybe, but I think it's what she wants.
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Comment by Oleander on October 5, 2015 at 2:23pm
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You're more than welcome Shawna! One more thing you may want to look into: we bought a very small pair of bird watching binoculars for PIR, passed them back & forth to one another - even shared with a family in front of us. The hall isn't huge but it was amazing to be able see every facial expression (very slight) and knew when she was locking her eyes on us. Thrilling! They're not expensive and are small enough to fit in your bag easily.
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Comment by Shawna on October 5, 2015 at 2:15pm
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Thanks for the suggestion Oleander!
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Morning everyone! Happy Monday.
Congratulations Shawna! Such a gift to hear their voices, plus you got the form letter! Yay!.
Our daughter's PIR was May 8th - we got her this Baby-G Shock Cassio watch. To this day she says it's the best thing we could've given her. Must be black.
http://www.amazon.com/Casio-BGD140-1ACR-Resistant-Multi-Function-Di...
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I got my first call on Saturday and got the form letter!! I was surprised but so happy to hear from her. She sounded pretty good and was positive. She said that she was stressed about inspections. She was going to be able to write on Sunday and had received my first letter on Friday which made her happy. Her PIR will be Nov 20. Any ideas about a good grad gift?
Hope everyone has a great week!
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