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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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Ship 13 (USS Marvin Shields) Divisions 219 and 220 (Brother Divisions)
Welcome to the Division Discussion for Divisions 219 and 220
These two divisions are brother divisions and will be training together from the beginning through BS21 their final test. Your SRs, soon to be SAILORS, are becoming friends, and some of them may be heading to A School together.
Get to know each other, your SRs are!
Please still use the Main Wall of the PIR Group to post questions, and concerns, we “veteran” moms don’t always get to into the discussion area as often as we would like.
Every single question that is asked is important Every single concern is genuine Every single member is important to us We don't want to accidentally overlook any of them or you.
Hang in there!!!
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Permalink Reply by krisnc (ship 4 div 197) on
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where in nc are you?
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Permalink Reply by jgmars6 (Jeannie) on
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I am in Holly Springs, about 20 minutes southwest of Raleigh. You?
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asheboro...where is your son going to school?
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Permalink Reply by cinderanb on
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Has everyone ordered their ribbons for PIR? I meant to order mine earlier this week and got busy! (PIR Ribbons by Lala Ribbon Queen!) www.uniquememorymakers.com
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i didn't even think about this, but what a great idea! i'm going to make my own! ;)
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oh my goodness! i JUST found this group yesterday. i immediately signed up and it took (what seems like forever) to get approved, but thank goodness i am now! ;) i wish i had known you guys were all here on april 10! anyhow, i am here and i am so thankful to have been at least reading all of your comments! my son is in 219. i won't fill you in on all of my ups & downs, because, they are similar to all of you! i will say that i had a HARD time yesterday. first, we all (his dad & his younger brother & younger sister) received letters yesterday. to give you a quick background, my husband & i have both been out of full time work since 2008. my husband has just gone back to school & i still cannot find full time work. unfortunately, i am disabled as well, and what i CAN do is minimal. i've decided to start doing a respite care of sorts for families with children with autism. all that being said, of course, my son knows we struggle. in his letter yesterday, was a check to "help us out". i lost it! blubbering all over the place. THEN, to top it off, i got a phone call around 5:30! he sounded stopped up, & i told him so, he said, "i'm not stopped up, i'm just sad". there i go blubbering again! he only got to talk less than 5 minutes. i figured out he was sad because he had received my letter saying we had come to the realization that we were not going to be able to afford to come for PIR and it was killing me softly! however, i thought with his $, we could drive (14 hours, blech). i asked one of my brothers (a retired commander) if he could go to support my son. he told me, "if i'm going to spend money for someone to go to PIR, i'd rather pay for you & jason to go"! he promptly bought our plane tickets & paid our hotel reservation. lastly, the phone rang again about 9:30, the caller id said us government. my daughter "screened it" and hung up on it! i screamed, "that was him!" luckily, he called right back & said that they let him call to get a final word of whether or not he would have guests at PIR. i was able to tell him yes! i am so stinking excited! i'm sorry to "verbally vomit" on y'all, but i had to share it with someone who gets it! & i think y'all all do! i'm glad to be here. sorry it took me so long! hope to meet all of you on the 7th!
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Aw, that is fantastic. My husband is disabled too and we were not sure how we were going to be able to do this trip....physically it will be a nightmare for him and it took us a while to decide if just I would go or both of us. After a crazy amount of debates we are both going so I know exactly how excited you must be. Welcome to the group, it has been so helpful. You've got a lot of catching up to do.
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Welcome! So glad you'll be able to go! We're so looking forward to PIR-only 2 more weeks!!
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I am so happy you get to go krisnc. Unfortunately we won't be able to (read back and it'll tell our saga) but my brother is driving a 5 hour drive to be there in our place. My son graduated from Marine boot camp last November and we were all able to fly to SanDiego (we are a family of 6-very close nit and supportive of each other). There were several young men whose parents were unable to come to that graduation, so we (as our children promote) 'adopted' for the day. (in fact, we live near Fort Sill, and have various young men in the military to our home regularly for holidays and 'hangouts'. It absolutely KILLS me that we cant be there to support our son--though he is gracious and understands. SO, I was thinking....just as we have been stand-in parents for these young men that come to our home....Could you consider being stand-ins for our son? I just thought it'd be cool if he had some parents that could just walk up to him and hug his neck and tell him that you know personally how proud his parents are of him as we 'met' on this website? He is apparently nicknamed 'Ironman', so many of your kids may at least know 'who' he is (at least if they have to take care of there uniforms!). Also ladies, being through this--even though it was a different branch--before, keep alert for those that don't have families there, they need us as much as our own kids.
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i will absolutely go to him and hug his neck. as i mention in my profile, my husband & i are both veterans. but get this, i am the youngest of 8, three of the sisters (including me) were enlisted navy. my brother is a retired commander. my brother-in-law (husband to the only of the four girls that wasn't in) is an active duty captain. and two sons of one of the enlisted sisters, were in the navy & the marines. so, we are a military family and we have plenty of people that we have "adopted" all over the world. in fact, at least three different families that we've adopted now come to our family reunions! i will ask my son to point him out to me! my son is the current RPOC & has been since about the second week.
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maybe the third week, i'm not sure.
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also, i see some of you talking seeing each other at sarge's m & g....what's that?
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