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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
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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.
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SON RETURNING FROM DEPLOYMENT
I am still fairly new to the whole Navy Mom experience! But, I'm trying to adjust. I have a question for whoever out there can answer it. My son is deployed on a carrier right now. He is attached to a Flight Squadron. I would like to be in Norfolk when they return, but are the sqaudrons flown off the ship ahead of time? THANKS!!
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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Yes, they are flown off beforehand. However, the exact date cannot be posted on an open board such as this, which I bet you know. Contact the ship or squadron ombudsman (volunteer family coordinator) directly for more information. You usually can find them with a simple google search. Or look for a group on this site for the specific ship or squadron, I bet the moms have one up and running and can help you out.
Have a great homecoming!
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Permalink Reply by thomas57 on
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Thanks so much Anti M for the reply. It's very helpful. Since I'm new to Navy for Moms, I'd like to share a little info about my sailor and his family. We live in Kansas. My son Joshua went into the Navy June, 2009. This has been a very emotional experience, (especially for MOM!) HOWEVER, WE ARE SO VERY PROUD OF HIS DECISION TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY!! Joshua has a sister aged 11 who misses him very much! We hope to have him home awhile sometime this summer.
SOME OF YOU OUT THERE MIGHT FIND THIS INTERESTING--- FROM OUR SMALL FARM TOWN OF ONLY 3500 PEOPLE, WE CURRENTLY HAVE EIGHT YOUNG PEOPLE SERVING, 6-NAVY; 1 MARINE; AND 1 ARMY!! WE AS A COMMUNITY COULDN'T BE PROUDER!!!
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Thanks for sharing. I would be busting with pride for a community with such fine young men and women! Go small town America! Best wishes to each and everyone of them and thank you for your service!
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In regards to figher squadrons... if your son is air crew (meaning... pilot, or part of the crew for larger planes), yes they will leave the carrier usually the day before the carrier is scheduled to arrive at port. Planes need to launch out at sea with the carrier moving at approximately 21 knots.
In the case of west coast carriers, if the carrier is arriving from the west (i.e. Hawaii) the carrier will stop in SanDiego to debark personnel attached to the air wing. I don't know about carriers in the east coast fleet. So, unless your son is actively involved with the flight crew, he will stay on the ship until it reaches port. Contact your son's squadron's ombudsman... they can help.
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Permalink Reply by Sweet*Southern*Lady on
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Yep, B (is a rescue swimmer so hes part of a helo flight crew) always gets to come home a day before his ship, They rest of the flight crew seems to normally go out for some good chow, go home sleep, and they normally have to go into work the next afternoon so that they are there when the ship comes in.
Congrats on his homecoming!
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