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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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After Graduation
How long can my sailor leave off campus after the ceremony? I received my letter only 3 people can attend :-(( so of course, I have angry family members.
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Permalink Reply by Angie on
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It is not a campus, that is college, it is a base.
If their "A" School is out of state, they will be able to leave right after PIR and MUST be back by a certain time that night.
If their "A" school is in Great Lakes, they will go to the new BASE right after the PIR, after about 3-5 hours you can pick them up until a certain time that night, than you can see them again in the am until a certain time each night.
It is up to the recruit who goes to PIR NOT the family...so if someone on the list can't attend write your recruit ASAP
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Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Concernedad on
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Down to 3 people now? You may want to ask your recruit if any of the other recruits aren't using all their spots. You may be able to add the names to someone else's.
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Didn't think they are spose to give away spot. I heard that the new sailors a responable for anyone on their list. Don't like I would have wanted my daughter vouching for ANYONE she didn't know.
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Correct, they are NOT to give spaces to others if they do BOTH recruits will get in trouble.
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I would be very careful asking your Sailor to ask someone else to add people to their list. They have really cracked down on that for security reasons - partly because of the real security risk it poses at PIR and also because it is a very bad and dangerous habit for new (or experienced, for that matter) Sailors to get into - helping those they don't know onto base and also assuming responsibility for their actions if they don't personally know them. Sailors are always responsible for the actions of their guests / people they sponsor on base, even when not physically with them, even at PIR, so this would make people responsible for a strangers behavior. Not to mention the importance of following orders...
They have been making it very clear that any recruits caught doing this can and will get in a LOT of trouble, and those Sailors could lose the privilege of having any guests attend.
I would be very careful with that.... It would be much better for them to wait at the hotel and see them on their liberty, or see them when they get a chance to come home on leave.
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Well I guess this is why I don't respond much any more. When my son PIR'ed, it was common practice. We had a couple extra names on our sailors list who I didn't know. They also allowed the extra names to get in, after everyone else was seated.
Perhaps policies have changed since then. I hate to give out misinformation.
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Policy has changed..no extra guests are allowed in, and some PIR are only allowed 3 guests per recruit while others are allowed 4. they are trying to stop what people did in the past from happening...if you think about it, if a recruit puts a name on their list of someone they don't know, in reality they could be letting someone crazy on the base who is there to do harm to others. No one really knows each other on the computer.
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Well no. They are adding names provided by their fellow recruits. What's the difference between a recruit adding the name of a "crazy person", or another recruit adds them to their list? They're still allowing a crazy person.
If you can't trust your fellow recruits with their invitation list, how are you going to trust them in battle?
Besides, the guards do check everyone's ID at the gate, AND before letting them into the building.
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No really they are adding whomever their mommy or daddy ask them to add...they don't know if that person really is another recruits family or not. As I have said before...no one really knows who is who on here...it is an open and public forum.
Checking everyones ID is really a joke all they are doing is making sure the ID pictures match, they don't run them across some data base or anything. And before they let them in the building, all they are doing is matching them with the access list the recruits provided.
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Well obviously I'm talking about adding someone's family members.
Now, if you're talking about a sailor not trusting his parents to have common sense, that's a different matter.
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Oh, so you're calling my son stupid?
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