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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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Events
**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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I miss my husband already :'(
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Permalink Reply by Valarie26 on
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My husband left Jan 12th so he's been gone for a little over 4 weeks now. The first week is by far the hardest! After you get past the 3rd week it does get easier. Soon you will get his box of things he couldnt keep at bootcamp and then you will get his form letter with his address. He'll also be able to write you a little note on the last page of the form letter. Then they get a phone call about 3 or 4 weeks in. They call it the "im still alive" phone call lol. But they do get chances to earn more calls. My husband has had 3 after the "im here" call. Then about 2 weeks after he left I got my first letter. My advice to you is to get yourself a routine and stick with it! Make sure to hang out with friends and do things for yourself, it really does help the time pass. Start writing him before you get his address because they live for mail call! I write my husband every single day and tell him everything I do, it really helps me because I know that soon he will get to read the letters and know everything I want him to know. And remember that he IS missing you just as much as you miss him! Make sure to send him pics too, my husband says he looks at mine 20x a day. Hang in there! I promise it really does get easier as the time passes!! And make sure to join lots of groups on here, especially the one for your PIR date, someone will start one soon.
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Permalink Reply by navywifey:) on
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My husband left for bootcamp a month after we got married. It was super hard but as weeks goes by it gets easier. I wrote my husband multiple times a day (I would put the time on each letter) and then mail the letters each morning. Those letters were my way of talking to him even though I really couldn't. I also spent alot of time with his parents, it made me feel closer to him. Keep yourself busy, find alittle task to do each day. Take it day by day and it will honestly be over before you know it. My husbands about to leave for a 6 month deployment and I just found out I'm pregnant so I will also be taking my advice lol :) hope that helps.
Hannah
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