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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
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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
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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.
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Great Lakes A School Q&A
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The purpose of this group is to allow family of new sailors assigned to school at Training Support Center Great Lakes a chance to voice questions to a Student Division Commander
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 2331
Latest Activity: Mar 12
Discussion Forum
leave after A/C school-- orders are confusing
Started by MANDY. Last reply by Anti M Aug 16, 2019. 2 Replies 0 Likes
What happens after ASchool?
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BECC Info?
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Comment by gvnavydad-ship011div057 on January 20, 2011 at 4:36pm
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My son starts ET A school at Great Lakes after his 1/28 PIR. He asked in a phone call for us to bring him his ipod, xbox, laptop to PIR, but I have heard several people say it sometimes takes a while before they can bring those things on base. I don't want to lug and pay for an additional suitcase on my plane trip for no reason. Does anyone know whether they can take them right away or not?
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Comment by PAM (GM MOM) on January 20, 2011 at 4:16pm
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ProudGMBarb what ship is your grandson on? My son is on the Decatur and he told me they got alot of new sailors just starting A school this week.
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Comment by ProudGMBarb on January 20, 2011 at 3:34am
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LoveOurSAILOR...Try not to worry. Our grandson, also ET and reported to A school, had liberty through Monday, but we needed to bring him back around noon on Monday to catch our flight home. I did not hear from him until early this evening when he called to give us his new temporary address. They are going through Indoctrination and are getting settled in their new barracks. You know the old saying...no news is good news. Hang in there!
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Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on January 20, 2011 at 12:18am
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LoveOurSailor, No it is not unusual to not hear from your sailor for a day or two. I bet he is being kept busy with Duty and Mustering. I hear from my sailor on Saturday or Friday's. Sometimes if he is not too busy studying for tests, he will call me on Skype.
They have very good medical care there at Great Lakes. Doctors are always available to help sailors who are ill.
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ProudGMBarb. Your story brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for sharing.
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Wanted to share a touching story. On Sunday morn, we had breakfast with our sailor at IHOP. When we went to pay our bill at the register, a waitress came up to us and said, "It's taken care of." We said, "What do you mean?" She said one of the other guests saw us and said he/she wanted to pay our bill as a "thank you" for our grandson's service. We asked who it was, but she said they didn't want to be identified. So we asked her to please thank them for us. OMG...we were so surprised, and deeply touched. We left the restaurant with tears in our eyes. My husband told our grandson how wonderful that was, and how different people are now as opposed to how they treated the service men/women who returned from VietNam. How thoughtful that anonymous person was!
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Angie it is -10 right now. Freezing!!
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Comment by Abbe'sMom(Ike CVN69) on January 19, 2011 at 4:49pm
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Karen....glad to hear your good news.
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ProudGMBarb. Welcome!! Glad you joined us. I am laughing my head off at your comment about the Chicago weather. We are from Colorado and Chicago is too cold for me. I heard Chicago is very damp. In Colorado the weather is dry even when it snows.... My son's PIR was this past August so the weather was hot while we were there. I hear all the time from my son how cold it is in Great Lakes. LoL
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Comment by jmazzsmom on January 19, 2011 at 9:10am
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forgot to add he's ship 9 division 073
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