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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)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

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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).  

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RTC Graduation

**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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 So Monday july 8, i wake up at 6 knowing todays the day im going to kiss and hug my boyfriend for the last time for 12 weeks. We may be young yes, but i truely love him. We drive and hour to the armed forces center and slowly say goodbye. We kiss and hug. Im so choked up, i can barely say " i love you". Im trying not to cry because if i cry, his mom will just cry that much more. So i hold it in. He goes into the office and finishes up the last part of the paper work. Then he walks bout our again. He holds me for a little bit. And says he loves me and just not to worry. We kiss again, and i watch him get into the car, and drive away.

 Week 1 passes...and nothing but the call he made to his parents saying he arrived.

 Week 2- I get a letter saying how they got a huge break and they got to write letters early and how it sucks and he didnt like it at all.

 Week 3- July 20. First phone call. Im still in high school so i was playing a basketball game. After the game i turn my phone on to realize i got a miss call. 4 voicemails pop up. Each from him saying " Oh i wish you would answer" "please answer" " i love you just pick up your phone, your killing me" I listened to them and just bawled. It wasnt fair. Why did i have to be the one to miss the first call? Why me?.

 Week 4- He called again. i was at a basketball tounrament 4 hours from home. I was just getting into the shower when he called again. I couldnt believe my ears. I was actually talking to him. I was talking to my hero. We talked for 28 mins. It was the best thing ever. I was so happy and excited and i just couldnt believe it.

Week 5- This was the last call i got,. During week 5. He said he wouldnt be able to call again until he graduated. It seemed like so far away. But now theres only one week left. Me and him have been through it all. Even though its only been 5 months, it feels like 5 years. Hes my other half and i miss him so much. Between week 5 and now ..which is Week 7... he's been in a gas chamber ( which he said was crazy cool), he's done firefighting stuff. Then Tonight at 8;30 he starts his battlestations. So if he has passed everything and eerything is going good...then tomorrow the dday. I should get a call around 4. PLEASE LET ME GET A CALL AT 4. I just need to hear from him.

        Miss you Baby

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Comment by eljac913 (Ship 12 Div 053) on August 29, 2013 at 9:18pm
Hope it all works out for you both. Best of Luck!
Comment by Katie on August 30, 2013 at 5:06pm

Thank you!

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