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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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BLESSINGS PAID FORWARD
When Erik turned 17 he learned to drive, although it wasn't without it's mishaps. I mean, how many of us can honestly say they hit the broad side of a barn? At 16, Erik did. And how many mothers can honestly say they rode close enough to a culvert that they saw the skeeter eaters from the passenger seat while her son learned to drive on country roads? Well... not me exactly, but it sure felt like it. And oh, the arguing as he learned.
Me: "OK son, pull on up to the barn and put the car in park."
Erik (looking like a circus bear on a tricycle as his 6'5" frame navigated my little Honda CR-V): "O....Kay..."
He pulls closer...
Closer...
Closer...
YIKES! TOO CLOSE!
Me: "Brakes, Bear, brakes!"
Erik: "I know Mommy! I KNOW!"
Me: ERIK! Put on the brakes NOW!
Huge broadside of barn fills the windshield of my brand new car.
Erik: "FINE MOMMY! THERE! YOU HAPPY!?!?!???"
And with that Erik suddenly gains copious amounts of leg room and lifts his foot up and slams it down on the...
...brake pedal? Oh no. His foot lands smack dab on the gas peddle and we surge into the broad side of a barn. Good times. At the ripe old age of 16, that humbled Erik considerably and pretty much killed any desire he had to drive for another year.
Finally, he was inspired to give it another gander when Steven brought home a beautiful red 1992 Toyota 4Runner as a birthday present. Erik took in the wonder of it all and I could see the cogs turning in his brain...
Thank you Nimbus Business Park for closing everything down on Sunday. It gives the local youth such a wonderful opportunity to learn to drive on real streets and park in real parking lots while still having the privacy to mess up. At 17 Erik learned to drive in no time at all.
From that day forward I found myself chasing down every red 4Runner I saw around town in an effort to honk my horn and wave (fortunately, there weren't many). I'd see Erik driving to and from school, a pack of kids in his car; to and from church with more kids, and too and from the mall, all alone because he hates shopping. It was always a treat to see him out and about town.
I remember when, after college, he moved into his own place. It wasn't the best of times for him as he took his college education and parlayed it into a short lived career as a pizza delivery boy (don't knock it; the tips are killer). I missed him terribly during those months as it was as close to rebellion as Erik ever got. He had to prove to us that he could take care of himself without the help of his Mommy and Daddy.
I'd see him leaving on his rounds to deliver pizza, zipping all through the neighborhood in his bright red 4Runner. He never knew it, but I'd follow him, just to see him; and be in his "space." He didn't talk to us much during that time. We'd been fighting as he exerted his need to be treated as a man, and we gave him his space. One day he called and said one word that changed everything: "Navy."
He's come a long way since then. He moved back home and went to the gym, got a "real" job and made plans for his Naval career. Every night after work, I'd here his 4Runner pull into the drive way. It's a wonderful car, "Big Red." Always reliable, ever true. It took Erik into the farm lands of Washington state as he visited friends, to the Oregon coast for camping in a yurt; and of course back and forth from college, delivering pizzas, church, and picking his sister up from school...
And home again... And I still believe I hear it pull up the street in the evening.
Gone are those days. Big Red now belongs to a lovely young lady, and it is fitting. We have a photograph of her taken the day she bought it, a big old smile slung from ear to ear. You see, for her, as for my son, Big Red is her first car. And so it goes... The blessings are paid forward.
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Comment by TexasMomof2 on April 28, 2010 at 10:53am
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Awww, I like this! And had to share that we purchased my youngest son's first truck from a friend of his that just graduated from high school and left home. So, here my son drove his friend's truck around town for a year. Last summer, when my son graduated from high school and left for Boot Camp, we sold the truck to yet another high school student who is now driving it around town. I see the truck from time to time and in one sense, it saddens my heart. On the other hand, it's fitting to see another local teenager driving it....
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Comment by Cynthia=Proud Nuke Mommy on April 28, 2010 at 11:30am
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Ohhh, how sweet is that? The memories are bittersweet, aren't they? But yesl it is fitting... So, it sounds like you are an empty nester. :oS
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Yes, I am........it's taking some getting used to. I'm definitely better today than I was in July of last year! I'm off work today and am actually cleaning out his room......the final cleaning, that is. I've done it in stages throughout the year.
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Texas Mom: I'll be a complete Empty Nester September 1st, after my daughter marries and moves out of state. Not looking forward to that at all! But that is part of life and I guess I can mimic my husband and dedicate myself to my job. That should make my boss happy.
How did the room cleaning go? I cleaned Erik's the weekend after he left. I had to get rid of all that dirty laundry! I made his bed and left all his personal belongings just as he left it. :( Hope you didn't shed too many tears today.
Wendy: Oh wow! What a story! Good for him to keep such a level head! I was thinking the other day that our kids will be so self sufficient and able to protect themselves and their loved ones after all is said and done. I love the part where he yelled, "I DON'T THINK YOU GET IT!" Isn't that typical of kids. Because we remain calm and try to gather information, we don't get it. Yet if we get all excited we are overreacting. That's how my kids think anyway. I'm glad your son and his GF are safe! And the car?
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