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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.
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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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ship 04 div 811 anyone?
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Permalink Reply by pjay(ship04 div811) on
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We also received the form letter yesterday with a note on the back. I think today is the day they get to write letters to send home. Can't wait to hear from him. We are from Palm Coast, FL
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Permalink Reply by aj2daway on
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here in Georgia y'all! Was really surprised at how quick the form letter came. Loved the quick note and his news that was he was the dental yeoman. Huh?
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Permalink Reply by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on
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Hello Ladies! I am sending you a "veteran" BC SPECOP mom. She will be along soon!
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Permalink Reply by AaronsMom (Ship 04, Div 811) on
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That will be great! I have so many questions.
Like, for one, can I put a pic of the two of us as my profile pic on here? It seems that's dangerous for one in Spec Ops?
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I would not post his picture. I would also set my Profile Page visibility settings to "Just my Friends".
To do this:
You can make your Profile Page (My Page - third tab over at the very top under the N4M banner) viewable only to your friends. There are other privacy settings too.
Go to: "Settings". “Setttings” is over to the far right column at the top underneath your username where you sign out of N4M's.
Click it. Once it takes you there...this is your Profile page settings where you can change your picture, username, “about me” comments etc.
To the left is a list...click Privacy...read through and change your settings to how you would like them.
The first one should be "Visibility"...My profile page and friends can be viewed by...
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Ok thanks. I did all these things to make my profile more private. I just love this site.
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HI,
Where do you live? I am in Denver, my son is EOD. So nice to meet some other moms... I miss him
Brenda
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Yes I am attending, are you going to be there also? How old is your son? my is turning 20 in a couple of weeks at bc.
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Permalink Reply by addy62 on
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i would love to talk to you. can you friend me. not so good at understanding this site yet
audrey y
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hey everybody,
still no long letter but i bet we get one soon. I have made all of our travel plans so now it just needs to hurry up and get here.
hope everyone is doing good. almost had a tear today but i pulled it together.
audrey y
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Hello,
I added everyone as a friend that I've seen with a SR on this group so far, in case you're not sure who the request is from. :) My son left on March 12, and I have had a couple of days now where I haven't cried. I've been trying to stay busy with my other five kids.
I've been writing him a letter almost every day and also getting his siblings to write. It helps so much because it makes me feel like I'm talking to him. Sort of.
I carry my cell phone with me everywhere, and when I was at church Sunday and had to put it on silent, I held it in my hand the whole time because I just knew I might miss a surprise call. It helps so much to know I'm not alone in my "craziness". (I'm assuming you guys are a little crazy missing your SR's too, right?)
My son is a diver, and I'm only seeing EOD moms it seems like. I guess they do boot camp together so they might still be buddies, right?
I booked our rooms at the Navy Lodge today. Glad to have that ready. I'm getting excited to see him again and hug him and give him back his phone so I can talk to him, text, and facebook again!
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@AaronsMom---My son is also a diver. There was one other diver at our "swear in".He was alone. His family couldn't make it for some reason. Nice kid--just turned 19. There was another guy who was going into air rescue. The three of them buddied up and that made me feel better.
It has taken me about 40 minutes to get this much typed so I will try tomorrow again. Prayers are going up for all of our guys.
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