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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)
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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).
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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
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.
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Great Lakes A School Q&A
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The purpose of this group is to allow family of new sailors assigned to school at Training Support Center Great Lakes a chance to voice questions to a Student Division Commander
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 2332
Latest Activity: Mar 12
Discussion Forum
leave after A/C school-- orders are confusing
Started by MANDY. Last reply by Anti M Aug 16, 2019. 2 Replies 0 Likes
What happens after ASchool?
Started by SailorMom18. Last reply by Phoenixmom Feb 13, 2019. 1 Reply 0 Likes
BECC Info?
Started by adubz33. Last reply by SuBHuni34 Nov 29, 2018. 9 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Joanie Tyler's Mom(133 Bees) on February 4, 2010 at 10:53am
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Kelly: Tyler has hard orders, has been given combat uniforms/equipment and has already been contacted by NMCB 133 in Gulfport. He arrives there on Feb 12th...comes home on Feb 13th....back to Gulfport on Feb 17th....then to Afghanistan late March.
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Congrats Wifey...know you are ready to get this move over with...enjoy your new house! My son graduates GM A-school on Friday....we are so excited...can't wait for him to begin the next adventure in Gulfport.
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Comment by Anti M on January 31, 2010 at 2:24pm
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LOL, not IN voc rehab, AS rehab. A social science with ESL degree, built off my existing psych degree. I also had major health problems, after graduation, so things went downhill. I have worked as an aid in speced classrooms, even sat in on IEP meetings at the request of the students and parents. Enough to know I'd rather not do it daily.
darth... your son must go through his liberty phases first, and he should put in a chit requesting permission to marry. Some sailors skip the 'get permission" thing, but that's not always a good idea. The Navy will not move a fiance, she counts for nothing until she is his wife. Once he is married, and in phase two, he must submit a "Live Ashore" package in order to live off base with her, or to get housing.
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Susan... yes, the SLC VA is very responsive. I got out in Japan and couldn't apply. When I got to California, I applied and never heard one word for two years. Salt Lake, I had my disabled vet bennies in hand in just a few months. It isn't much, but it pays our medical insurance and such small things.
There is a TON of paperwork, keep copies of everything. I bet she knows this lesson already!
They even sent me back to college to finish my teaching degree as voc rehab. The teacher job market in Utah is weird, they need teachers, but not old ones who don't have the social network backing them.
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Susan, that is very good news on her discharge! Did she get enough days to qualify for VA?
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Update on my son....Graduates GM A-School Feb. 5th....Heading to Mississippi on Feb. 12th...Starts C-School Feb. 15th...Leaves country late March...No leave after A-School...At least he'll only be 2 hours from us until he leaves the country!
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As for their paygrade coming out of BC... that depends on their contract. Usually E-2 or E-3, but you do see an E-1 now and then. However, NO one graduates as an E-4 from boot camp, as they have not yet been trained in their rate.
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It used to be they advanced immediately after the completion of A school, as long as they had been an E-3 for six months or more. Now they still must be an E-3 for at least six months, and they advance to E-4 when the rest of the fleet in all rates advances during the advancement cycle. Yes, that;'s twice a year. I do not know if they get credit for time served as an E-4 after A school while waiting to advance or not. That would make a difference later, when advancing to E-5.
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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on January 29, 2010 at 1:12pm
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Connie, based on Matt's rate he will be an E3 when he graduates from A school and then he has a six month wait before he advances to E4. Although some of our sailors in this rate have been experiencing difficulting advancing at the end of that six months and have been told that they are only advancing twice a year now. I'm not clear if they changed the instruction for this rate - when they changed it.
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LOL, old people. I resemble that remark. LOL.
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