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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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Letter from boot camp
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Permalink Reply by Brenda Sue on
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nope - they sent ours home.
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Permalink Reply by ChrisAmo on
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Brenda Sue is correct, they'll just send them back with the "kid-in-a-box" stuff. When you write to him you can send him stamps if you wish, but they can buy what they need at the NEX. When my son went in 2 years ago they were REQUIRED to use official Navy stationary. I don't know if that's still true.
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Permalink Reply by Emily1216 on
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For the first 4 weeks I recieved letters I only got it on Navy Stationary. After that regular paper. I sent two booklets of stamps and a calling card. They can but all of that stuff too. When you get his address, you could send everything addressed and stamped for him if you would like. They don't have much time to write, so anything that would save some time would be benificial. Sundays are the only days they can write. That is the day they have to iron, straighten up their racks, and get longer showers. Good luck!!
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Permalink Reply by Arwen on
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I sent a single self-addressed, stamped envelope with a single sheet of paper folded carefully in my son's wallet. The paper was pre-printed with a questionnaire so he didn't have to think much about what to say, and I could get the answers to the things I really wanted to know about his first two weeks' experience.
After that, with each letter I wrote I enclosed an SASE. Some had fun, silly questionnaires in them, others with blank paper. That way if he had lots of time he could write a letter, but if he was busy he could spend 2 minutes filling in the blanks and I could still get news from him.
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