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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.

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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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My son is at the Groton, CT Sub School.  I am wondering if there is anything that we cannot send them?

Also,  Where can I go online to get the "NEX" cards?  I have heard they are good for gifts. 

 

Cara ISH-MOM

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Go to mynavyexchange.com.  I have ordered from here and had sent to my son several times.  You can send with a greeting card also which is kinda neat - you can pick the card (there are lots to chose from) then either use their greeting or write your own - you can chose the print font and ink color.  I have had the cards sent directly to him and also sent to me so I could send when I thought he needed a little pick me up.  Hope this helps you. (There is an Applebee's not too far from the base and a place called Seven Seas pizza just outside the base with really good pizza.  We ate here last summer two times, and I got a gift certificate which I mailed to him awhile back.)

Thanks for the information.  I will go there.  With S being a "newbee", can he go off base?  He was told that he couldn't. 

Cara

He can't if he were at Great Lakes, but I don't know if Groton puts the same limits on their newbies.  Possibly for a week or two.

He has been there since Jan 4th.  Is it from the time "school" starts or from the date they arrive?

 

Is there anything that we CANNOT send them in carepackage?  I am planning on sending one to my son.

Cara  ISH MOM

Find out if he can have food in his room or not. Some can't.
Yes he can.  They even have a microwave and small frig.
Well, other than the obvious, such as porn, drugs, alcohol and weapons, you can send almost anything.  Just remember he won't have much room for trinkets when he gets to his boat, so take it easy on the Navy this, that and the other.  It piles up and he has to store it or ship it home.

I was actually thinking of his favorite goodies, and some other items of the sort.  Nothing that he would have to keep for long.    Thanks for your help.

 

 

If you bake, homemade goodies are very popular.  They tend to share with their friends.
That is what I was thinking.  and also some chips, etc.

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