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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.

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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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Deployment help :/

I'm 19, and my sailor is deployed. we have only been together a year and 7 months. its really hard only being the girlfriend and not having a more permenant commitment as a wife does. I know him really well and i KNOW he still cares but he barely acts like it. last nov. we broke up for 4 months. and being devastated is an understatement. within that time he dated another girl for just over a week...:/ I dont believe he honestly moved on from me or he wouldnt have broken up with her or came back to me. things have been different since then tho becuase we didnt have enough time spent together yet to build back our relationship. now its 7 months later and we are better but no where near what we were. i have heard during deployments you cant build and grow, its more about just sustaining the relationship until he gets back...is this true? He barely says i miss you. it took him 3 months to say it after leaving and now he wont say it anymore...i need help. :/

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Permalink Reply by Anti M on October 8, 2011 at 9:32am

Confront him?   Mmm, perheps let him know your feelings, see how he reacts.  

 

I save "confront" for suspicious behavior.  Really suspicious behavior.

Permalink Reply by Katie26 on October 8, 2011 at 2:23pm
I have read mnay things on different ways the men react when they are deployed. My sailor seems to fall under the show no emotion kinda way. Everytime I try to talk about "us" he wont respond. and he blocks off. Its really hard. But i guess maybe its his way of coping with being away....
Permalink Reply by Countrygirl143 on October 11, 2011 at 5:13pm

my fiance has been deployed 5 months and we have never known each other more! We play 20 questions too, and it keeps us sane and lets us get to know each other even more as time goes by! He is also much more loving because the longer he's away, the more little things he overlooked at first, become his thoughts every day, (like something that made me laugh, or a time he held my hand) and we never underestimate any time together that we spend now that he appreciates the littlest things. I think as time goes by, your sailor might start to see that even the little things matter, and you just gotta keep letting him know you support him.

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