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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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Ship 12 Div 042
Anyone Ship 12 Div 042.. this is for all of us who have a loved one at RTC in this division with PIR 1/14! Here we can share when we get letters & phone calls. WE can keep tabs on how their division is doing and help eachother through the next 8 weeks!!
Glad to have you all here!
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Permalink Reply by JudieK on
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Thanks for letting us know. NS did mention that she got the information from you. Thank goodness we have YOU to give us the info.... I've received no word from Jimmy yet at all (except for the 30 second "I'm here" phone call). I totally understand that if he has to choose his mom or his girlfriend to write to, he would choose his girlfriend. At least I can get an update through the grapevine. Take care... thanks again! Judie
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Permalink Reply by MaryC (Ship 02 Div 944) on
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I am so happy to have found this site to hear more about my son's division. I received my first letter Saturday, and it was short but to the point. He sounds homesick but says he has met a few friends. He mentions one from Rhode Island specifically. I see it mentioned in these posts that this group is rumored to be Grad-N-Go. I sure hope not. I miss him terribly. This is my second son in 8 months to go through bootcamp. My other son is a hospital corpsman and is training in Camp Lejeune right now. If anyone has questions they think I could answer, please ask, and I will do my best to answer with my prior experience. Right now...I just miss my son!
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Permalink Reply by Karla~ (S 12 D 042 - PIR 1/14) on
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Welcome, MaryC! It will be a lot of fun to see if any of our boys know each other! Where is your son going to A school?
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He will be headed to San Diego. Where will your recruit be headed?
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He is going to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey. Guess they're both going to sunny CA!
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He is excited to get to CA. In his letters, I can tell he is frustrated though at the recruits who are causing trouble. He said they had intense exercise twice in one day because of them. I can't wait to see him at graduation. I really hope they aren't grad-n-go.
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Permalink Reply by AshJewell on
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Thanks Karla! If he does end up being grad-n-go I'm sure I'll get through it. Just stinks, he is nuke, so I know he'll be in school in SC. I could easily start looking now for a place to live and move down then when he does, but I think since his schooling is more than 6 months, he will get orders for me to move with him. I have to be in the same state as him when the baby is born, No questions asked!! Thanks for the support though (= I need it.
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Hi Alexis... yes... they are all in Great Lakes now for Basic Training, but after that they go to one of several different places, depending on what job they'll be doing in the Navy. Some are going to California... some South Carolina,,, some Florida (I think).
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Permalink Reply by Marsha on
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I am very grateful to have found this discussin group...It's nice to know that I'm not alone...missing my son!
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Welcome, Marsha! Have you heard from your son?
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No phone call yet...he sounds good..nothing about the wisdom teeth yet...OMG...Thanksgiving was awful...it was just my husband and I ..our daughter lives in VA and she's expecting our first grandchild in Feb...so it's been some kind of holiday thus far.,,can't wait to hear his voice
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Got a couple more letters from my son. He sounds pretty good! Course, that was BEFORE he got his wisdom teeth out. :o( Since Thanksgiving was holiday routine they were able to write! He said the DIV is definitely grad-n-go. At least we'll have Friday!
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