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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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Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
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).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**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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Letters from Pets
Dear ________
Nana is ignoring me right now. She thinks the computer is more important than me. She sits in front of it ALL THE TIME. I want to play, she says “just a minute”. I bring my toy, she throws it across the room. I bring that bone my friend brought one day, and she puts in on the furniture beside her. I would rather hear it drop on the hardwood floor. You can hear that sound all over the house!!!!
Yesterday, she tried to cut my paws off! Yeah, she grabbed the hair between my paw pads and got those big scary nipper things out, then started snipping with them! Finally, she quit. But was she done? No! She took me over to the sink and started running water, then stuck a paw under it, took her fingernails and grabbed the hair AGAIN. Oh, there was something hard in the hair I had been trying to lick. I’m not sure if she knew that or not.
Anyway, I kept jerking my paw out from under the water, so she picks a dirty bowl up from the sink, fills it with water, and sticks my paw in it! And it was a bowl I had just licked out of. Gross! At least the water was warm.
Well, the water started turning brown, and the only thing in it was my paw. That was really creepy. I wondered if maybe I licked my paw too hard and my blood is changing color. Somehow, that hard clump between the pads came out while the water was turning brown. It felt a lot better, so I let her do the same thing to my other front paw. Then she starts grabbing my back paw. Digging and poking around in between the pads. I was so mad. She must be stronger than me sometimes, because this time she prevailed.
Finally, she dried the last paw and let me down. I tore outside and ran onto the grass. I have to admit it feels better to run now. I think I’m running even faster. That squirrel keeps disappearing every time I get it near a tree, though. One of these days…
I love you. I like hearing your voice when you call on the phone. But I can’t ever find your face. Can you tell me where you put it?
Bye for now,
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Everyone, please add Letters from Pets that you send to your SR or Sailor! I need more ideas! You can upload them or send a link from here.
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(here's another one!)
_________! Nana’s letting me write another letter!!!
I have a new trick – I can open their bedroom door like I open the garage door when it’s already a little bit open! But I don’t think Nana knows yet. I’ll stand at the door and bark a few times. She’ll come over to open it and as soon as she gets there, I push it open with my paw. It’s so funny! It works every single time. I hope she doesn’t catch on very fast, ‘cause I like this new game!
Nana usually carries me to bed because she thinks I don’t know how high to jump in the dark, but I forgot last night and jumped up on her bed in the dark. I hope she didn’t notice. I like being carried when I’m sleepy!
Your sister comes over sometimes. She and Nana go up to the room where I marked my territory – you know, the one where your stuff is. BTW, I’ve found some really cool things to play with in there. A silk rose, for one, and I found that wrist thing you made out of the pink and yellow thick yarn. It’s still fun to tug on. I thought you had lost it!
Oh, I heard them talking about “cleaning up” the spots I left in that room. HOW WILL ANYONE KNOW IT’S MY SPACE?! I guess it’s not anymore. Stacy says it was hers first, a long, long time ago, even before I was born! She must be really old. And that now it’s yours. All I get is the stupid kennel. Oh, well, I guess it’s better than nothing. (But I can probably find a secret place to mark again. Shhh!)
You oughta see the floor. It’s got dirt clods and grass clippings and dust balls all over it. There’s even some on the furniture. How does it get there? Humans can be so messy. When do they drag all that stuff into the house? I sure don’t see them doing it.
I hope you are doing well. Take care, and kick some butt! Just bark really loud! Let ‘em know who you are!
I’m sending you a big lick on your nose,. I hope it’s wet enough.
Love,
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