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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

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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.

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My husband graduates bootcamp Nov 15, and goes to A school the following morning in Pensacola, I will be 38 weeks pregnant and I live a couple hours away from Pensecola, so I was wondering how much t…

My husband graduates bootcamp Nov 15, and goes to A school the following morning in Pensacola, I will be 38 weeks pregnant and I live a couple hours away from Pensecola, so I was wondering how much time will i get to spend with him there at A school, since its a saturday & sunday! any info will help!!

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Comment by lemonelephant on October 16, 2013 at 1:33am: You most likely won't be able to visit him that first weekend in Pensacola, but have him check when he gets there.

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Comment by lemonelephant on October 16, 2013 at 1:33am: BTW, edit your Blog to add a Post Title. When you don't include a title, the NING program automatically puts the first 200 characters of your post in as the title and that gets pretty long. Click "Options" in the upper right, then "Edit Post" and insert a title.

Comment by Anti M on October 16, 2013 at 6:57am: He will be in liberty phase one when he first arrives, meaning he can't spend the weekends offbase. He might be able to have you visit, but will have an early curfew. Because he is arriving on a Saturday and checking in, he won't have much time to himself.

Here are the liberty phases for Great Lakes, P-cola uses a near identical set of guidelines:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/training-support-center-tsc-great-la...

He should let them know when he checks in that you are due/near due. The Red Cross is going to be your fastest way to officially contact him, because you are close, they may even let him go for the birth (they don't have to though).

Within the first year of the baby's birth, he gets ten days of free paternity leave. He can't skip school to take it, but can request to take it if there's a break in training. He could even use it over Christmas if he's there long enough. They don't start school right away anyway, there is always some indoc and some hold time.

http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/reference/messages/Documents/...

Comment by kathierob on October 17, 2013 at 10:30am: My son is also graduating Nov 15th does any recomend we make dinner reservations not sure how busy the restaurants will be.

Comment by lemonelephant on October 18, 2013 at 1:00am: kathierob, there are lots of options, so it is not usually a problem if you don't make reservations.