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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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OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

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DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.  

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Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

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:

RTC Graduation

**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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Just thought I would start the discussion.  It would be nice to get to know some of the families before graduation.

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Michelervc, I spoke with my son and he said he only knew one Matt.  He told me about the letter he wrote to his girlfriend so apparently our boys are getting along well together.  It's great to know that I have met (so to speak) his friends mother. 
I find it funny that he wrote her.  When he left he said he would never write.  I'm surprised that I even got a letter let alone anyone else.  I knew better though.  I'm not much of a letter writer myself but when I went through basic I wrote everyone I could.
I dont think I have ever heard things that my son is writing or saying(Since he was seven)  I love you  Imiss all of you  I cant wait to see you.  I dont think he ever wrote a letter in his life(except for a school assignment)  Matt is the same way he asked for all his aunts and grandparents addresses Its a good thing.  Yes it felt great like he really knows how much we all care about them 
I was really amazed to hear my son say that he loved me.  I tell him all the time that I love him and he doesn't really respond but when I got the phone call, before we hung up I said I love you and he said it back.  I couldn't believe it.  Just like you, I don't think I have heard it since he was little either.
Hi HJ glad you got a call from your daughter  How is she doing? 

She sounded good. Her and the other 2 girls. They were having a little fun. Ya know girls. How's your son?

So where are you staying for PIR
I am staying at the Mariott Residence.  My sons girlfriend is coming with us so she and my daughter will share a bedroom and then its my son, my husband and myself so we got a two bedroom  room.  As of now we wont get ther until late Thursday night as I have just started a new job and its hard also for the kids to miss too much school.  Yeah girls are of a totally different breed than boys. 
Mom son told me that same thing.  That he wasn't going to write home.   I have gotten 3 letters so far.  They haven't been long letters but they are still letters.   His letters make me laugh.    His girlfriend lives with us, she lets me read her letters. But, he even say's in her letters that he's not a letter writer. 
I guess when you take away phones, TVs,  computers, and all the luxuries of home writing isnt as hard.  I love that my sons writing.  You see how they can surprise us sometimes
Did you get a phonecall

Hi my son is ship2 343 division also hope to see him on oct 14

Hi Donna what is your son going to A school for?  By the way my son is staying in Chicago for A school anyone else

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