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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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**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.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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- Graduation Info
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My sailor who left for bootcamp on 2/9 was home last week to move our DIL from our house to Goose Creek. You see, my sailor just got to SC because he finished bootcamp from RCU. He was injured and sent to RCU on week 5 day 1 which was March 19. His PIR date was to be 4/9. He ran Battle Stations and called me with the "I'm a Sailor" call on April 30. He went to THU awaiting waivers and doctors orders and finally got to Goose Creek on 6/9, four months to the day that he left home. He opted not to join another division for PIR.
He showed up at his grandparent's house, where I was busy receiving their new furniture delivery for their move. He came in behind me and simply said, "Hi, Mom". I turned to see a handsome young man, standing there in his dress uniform. He had promised me that since we had to cancel our trip for PIR, I would get to see him some day in his dress whites. He got up early, got dressed in his whites and found me. I promptly became a blubbering fool. The furniture delivery guys just waited and smiled.
He came home for 2-1/2 days for the move and had to leave out on Saturday so he wasn't able to have his and his brother and dad's annual "Go To breakfast for Father's Day" tradition. He brought us tee shirts, a hoody and gave his dad a Navy ball cap. Hubby was so proud to put that cap on for us all to go to lunch on Thursday. My sailor swore me to secrecy where his dad was concerned about the cap. It was his "official" capping ceremony cap and he knew that his dad wouldn't accept it, had he known. He told me that he was so proud to have received his cap after all he had gone through to get that far and that he would be even prouder if his dad would wear it.
I told my husband the truth about the cap about 6 hours after they hit the road headed to Goose Creek. Sure enough, his dad sat with tears streaming down his face and kept repeating over and over, "He shouldn't have done that". My sailor, in the space of four months, grew up so much at RTC. Yes, he is 22 years old, he was married on January 9 of this year and left for BC 1 month later but getting married doesn't make a boy into a man, anybody can get married but not just anybody can complete the training necessary to become a sailor. Because we wouldn't have the opportunity to attend his PIR, he gave his family something more special and I am so grateful.
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Permalink Reply by Brenda Sue on
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Wonderful story - thanks for sharing!!
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