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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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**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
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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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Hi Mary C- my son is in the same division as yours... we live in Buffalo. He's going to A School in South Carolina. I'm pretty excited about that... I've never been to the South (well... Virginia, if that is really the "South."). Somewhere warm to visit during a freezing cold Buffalo winter (those few flakes in GL this week were nothing.... Buffalo made the national news because some areas a little south of the city got 36 inches this week!)
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Permalink Reply by MaryC (Ship 02 Div 944) on
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Hi JudieK - My husband was in Buffalo on business during that storm. We had friends on their way to their son's PIR and were stuck in it for 5 hours. They apparently backed down the thruway to get off. Amazing how much snow you already have.
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Permalink Reply by CindyShip12Div042 on
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Hi ladies. My son is also Ship 12 Div. 042. When he called on Friday he sounded pretty positive. I miss him like crazy. He is my oldest child. It was good to hear his voice. I really want to go to his PIR but now that I know for sure he is Grad and Go I am not sure how much time I will get with him. He is headed for Connecticut.
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Permalink Reply by Marsha on
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I also miss my son like crazy...he is def..a grad and go and going to Pensicola..no one has responded to my message about any of their son's or daughter's going there...I find this NavyforMoms somewhat confusing...but I guess it takes practice roaming around the site...Even though my son is a grad and go...I will be there for his graduation...:)
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Permalink Reply by Lynne on
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I have responded to you Marsha...see a previous page...sorry it took me so long.
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Mary- they were the lucky ones... some people were trapped in their cars overnight on the thruway! Can you imagine?? What if you had kids in the car?? Yes... we live in a snowy part of the country- the icy wind blowing over an unfrozen Lake Erie creates a "perfect storm" for lots of snow! Chicago could be the same, although it's south and west of the Lake.... the winds usually blow West to East, but who knows.
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Permalink Reply by AshJewell on
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Okay ladies, lets take Lynne's advice and make sure EVERY RECRUIT gets a Christmas Card!!!!!!! I think there are about 83 or so recruits and 3 RDC's. We can divide up, and each of us send so many to our recruits and have them pass them out, but we need to make sure they dont double up, so every recruit gets one. We can coordiante on things to stay or maybe come up with a cute poem, etc. WHO'S IN??????????
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I counted, I think there are 10 or 11 of us in here, so thats abt. 10 cards each. I know we can rally and do this!
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Permalink Reply by NS on
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Agreed!! I think it's an awesome idea. I have found some really funny cards while looking for cards to send for family I guess I'll go back and grab those since everyone loves a little humor! Great Idea!!!
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and one more thing, hahaha, we should sign them from your NAVY FOR MOM family!
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My son's elementary school teachers are having their classrooms make cards for their division. I think each student per classroom is going to make a card (at least 25 per classroom). They are being directed toward my son to hand out (he doesn't know about them). I figured they had to be addressed to someone in the division. There are at least three classrooms participating in this, and I think actually more who are jumping on board as we speak.
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