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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)

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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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My daughter is in bootcamp been there for 5 weeks now. Anyone else got a daughter in the Great lakes right now? Tiffany has met a girl there that is helping her with phyical fitness and studying with her dont know her name but would be cool to meet her mother on here. And any advise you got for a mother missing her daughter would help also.

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My daughter is there but her PIR is 11/1/13. I've only heard from her twice and I'll have to ask her who she is studying with.

 

 

when did you get your first letter from her? Not the form letter just a letter? Im stalking my mailman LOL

Hi Tiffany's Mom...my daughter is at GL as well with her PIR being October 18, she left Aug 19...my girl is in Ship 3/Div 392...what is your daughters Div? I miss my baby girl very much at times, but I look back at her letters and she tells me she is where she belongs, that she feels as if this is what she was meant to do with her life ( first letter was a very homesick letter). It is easier than when she left and especially since she has so much confidence and feels so good about her choice.

Tiffany is in Div 427 Ship 09 I havent got a letter from her thats the bad news. I got a kid in a box and the form letter but NOTHING else:( I just hope I get a letter soon.

My first letter came after she had been there 2 weeks...seems like everyone gets letters on pretty much Thursdays and Fridays...some occasionally on Wednesdays. My first phone call came on Labor Day weekend...very emotional for both of us, but each one has been much better. Its been 2 weeks since I have spoken to her, they are now on " earned calls" since they are busy testing, getting ready for Battlestations and graduation. From what I have read, unless she does something to earn a call, or gets hurt, I won't hear from her until we get the " I'm a Sailor" call...which is pretty close to graduation time.

 

I got the phone call last Saturday so Im hoping i get a letter today. She said she has wrote me like 8 letters and I havent got a one but I been praying I get one today.

The thing you need to keep telling yourself is "no news is good news" :)

Be "stalking" the mailbox on Thursdays and Fridays...they only get to send mail out on Mondays. When you get that letter...BREATHE....and cry all you want!! These moms on this group are amazing and are very comforting!

i bet you get it today or tomorrow :)

Oh I hope so Ive already be stalking the mailman LOL Thank you so much for cheering me up this morning been down in the dumps this week. I just hope  my husband will bring me her letter to work if it comes today or tomorrow.

You are so very welcome!! We are a sisterhood and this is a roller coaster ride but we will all get through it....my name is Sherry by the way and we are from Texas.

Any Mom's with daughters in Great Lakes with PIR 11/1/13?

My girl is with Division 410 - I have received 1 letter and I am hoping for another one today, it did come on thursday. It's funny but last week when I was really having a bad day at work and I was just down and out, got home, checked the mail and what a lift to my spirits. It's amazing. Hope you all hear from your loved one's this week! I wanted to thank you all for being there for me with my questions.

 

 

 

 

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