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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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Envelope sizes
I just got a letter from my daughter today. She asked me to send a "bun" maker for her hair. Is it okay for me to do that? Is there a limit on the size of the envelope I send her because I was also going to send her photos?
Appreciate your time.
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Comment by lemonelephant on December 31, 2015 at 8:10pm
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If she asked for it, then it is fine to send it. She will have to open the package in front of the RDC.
Any envelope that goes for 49¢ is fine. When sending pictures, consider printing them on paper instead of sending photos in order to save room in her A/B drawer.
See Letter Writing & Fun Stuff/Questionnaires to send to your Recruit.
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Check your My Page.
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Comment by usgrant42 on January 1, 2016 at 11:19am
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You responded that if she asked for it, it will be okay she receives it, the bun maker, right? I also so this on the family pamphlet
Recruits can receive anything that can fit into a standard sized envelope and news from home might help ease some of their homesickness as well. Resist the urge to send a care package or write on the outside of the envelope. We know you want to send your Recruit their favorite homemade chocolate chip cookies, but Recruits cannot receive these. Also, remember that the envelope will be seen by their RDC, so putting stickers or writing all over their envelopes might make your Recruit uncomfortable.
So, I'll go ahead and send the bun maker:)
You also answered it doesn't matter that the two addresses were different between the form letter and the one she writes as her return address. However, in the notes on the link you sent earlier it says not to worry if their ship and division numbers are not different. My daughter's were different between the 2 and also when looking for her ship and division to sign up for that group, the division she wrote on her return address which was 107 wasn't listed on the website.
I appreciate your help.
Evelyn
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Yes, it is fine to send the bun maker if she asked for it.
If she is in division 107, then PIR is 02/26/2016. Is that what your form letter indicated?
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The form letter indicated her address was
Ship 11 Div 101
3505 Sailor Drive
Great Lakes, IL 3505
Her return address on her handwritten letter to me told me the address was
Ship 04 USS Arleigh Burke Division 107
3600 Ohio St
Great Lakes, Il 60088-7103
How can I out which is the actual address and which is her PRI date?
Thanks,
Evelyn
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That would indicate that she has been moved to the 02/26/2016 TG. You can check with the recruiter on Monday to see what is in the computer or email the PAO since those divisions have different PIR dates. Did her letter indicate a reason for being ASMO'd to a division with a later PIR date?
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Where is the PAO email address? What does PAO stand for? I talked to her New Year's Eve but before I received her letters to me so I didn't know to ask about the change in the division number and address. Wouldn't she have known when she talked to me that her date had changed? She even told me that her division's original PRI date was going to be February 12th but they moved it to February 5th. She left on December 15th for basic. I can't stand this not knowing what is really going on.
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You can contact the RTC Public Affairs Office via e-mail at rtc.pao@navy.mil. You may need to contact them to get the password for the vehicle/gate pass for the 02/26/2016 PIR since you have the one for the 02/05/2016 PIR and passwords are PIR specific. You will have to give them the password you have in order to get the new one. They will probably have you ask your recruit for it.
PAO=Public Affairs Officer or Public Affairs Office
Yes, she should have known that her date had changed if she had been moved to DIV 107 when she called you. There is no PIR on 02/12/2016 or 02/19/2016, which was on the calendar at the RTC so the date of her PIR was not moved from the 12th to the 5th, but was planned from the time of the recruits' arrival that week and is what your form letter should have indicated. Some recruiters had mistakenly told future Sailors who shipped that week that PIR would be the 12th based on nine Fridays, which is the typical time at the RTC. I am surprised that she did not call to tell you that she had been moved to another division with a later PIR date.
The Page, What does ??? mean? (A Guide to Navy Abbreviations and Terminology), will help you with many of the new terms you will come across.
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