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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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**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, now we are down to 11 days until our son ships out... 
which is actually 10 days because he has to be at the recruiting
office at 3:00 the day before, then on to a hotel for the night.
We can take him out for dinner that night as long as we stay 
very close by (preferably in the hotel) and have him in 
his room by 10:00pm.We will go to MEPS  the next
day to see him do the final swearing-in 
(the "no turning back, you're in the Navy now" one) 
and  then say good-bye. Some parents go to the airport and
 hang out, but unless our son requests this, I think I'll pass. 
I can only take so many farewells.
Things seem surreal. It is hard for me to imagine him gone,
despite the 10 months we have known this date.
I am very excited, proud and grateful for this opportunity
for my son, but it is bittersweet. 
I don't even know what to do these last days.
He seems quiet and a bit withdrawn. I know this 
is not unusual and is part of the separation process.
I have the business of organizing an "Anchors Aweigh"
 party to distract me. Then come the good-byes 
and the long wait for communication from boot camp.
What a ride this has been...
and it has barely begun! 

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Comment by SonandSea on July 28, 2011 at 7:42pm
Oh, thank you!!! That means the world!!!! ♥♥♥
Comment by LisaAnn on July 29, 2011 at 9:25pm
I know exactly how you feel my son leaves on Mon. It has been 3 weeks since we found out when he leaves. It seems like you wait and wait and then all of a sudden it is here. Your not sure if you are suppose to party or spend every minute with him to savor the moments you have left.
Comment by Cristina (Robin'sMom) on August 1, 2011 at 12:03pm

I cry everytime I read your blog. I feel your heartache tremendously. My son has 3 months to go and it's agonizing. I don't know what to plan in this last months. Do we celebrate his 21st b-day since he won't be here for that? How about Thanksgiving and Christmas? He leaves a week before Thanksgiving. How did you do it?

 

Always here for you anytime. Hang in there.

Comment by LisaAnn on August 1, 2011 at 12:30pm
we were on our way to the recruiters office today and then to the hotel half an hour into our trip the recruiter called and said they gave him the wrong ship date. Now he leaves on the 16th of Aug.  We get to do this all again in 2 weeks.
Comment by SonandSea on August 3, 2011 at 8:23pm
LisaAnn~ Oh, how nerve-wracking!! So sorry!!! hugs~Dale ♥
Comment by SonandSea on August 3, 2011 at 8:24pm
Cristina~ Oh, my! My son will be in his 2nd week of boot camp when he turns 19! Thankfully he will not be there for the holidays! He leaves this Sunday! EEEK!! Thanks for reading my blogs! Hang in there! ♥♥

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