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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

...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.

OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

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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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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.

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My husband dropped off our Son at the recruiters yesterday at 2pm. Just waiting for the first call. Also wanted to put this out there. We live 30 mins from Great Lakes. IF your young adults need a place to go during Holidays or just for the weekend we are more than happy to host. We want to be able to give back as much as we possibly can. Super excited we are almost Navy parents :) Our son said its bad luck until he officially graduates to say it.

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Sushicat242000-- Welcome!  You will find a ton of information in the main page of the Boot Camp Moms.  It sounds like you are ready to go!!

Sushicat242000  Welcome to Navy Moms, This is so Wonderful of you to do. I live in Phoenix, AZ and my Son stayed in GL for A school. When Thanksgiving was coming around I was really worried, His Favorite time. Worried that he would be alone. He did get Adopted for Thanksgiving and it was such a Wonderful feeling that he was able to share this Holiday with a Family. He even offered to say Grace, He's a good kid. So Thank You, If you would like to Adopt a Sailor who's Family couldn't make it to PIR your Son can find out and set it up for you to also have that Sailor on PIR Day.

Generally how long is it between the time he leaves for Boot Camp until the first call? He left yesterday at 2pm and like I said its only 30 mins to Great Lakes for us

He just called. I was a little nervous. It felt like forever.

I'm sure the minutes feel like hours...or days!  How nice that you are so close to Great Lakes.  My son leaves 7/9 so we still have a little family time left but I'm definitely starting to have emotional moments and nervous moments.

WaterLily  **It is very important that your future Sailor be physically fit prior to shipping to the RTC (these are new standards beginning 1/1/2018) and that he be able to pass an initial run test. See Navy Sets New Physical Fitness Standard to Start Boot Camp. "The initial run standard is evaluated on the 1.5 mile run of the first Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA) at boot camp. The initial run standard for male recruits will be 16 minutes 10 seconds and 18 minutes seven seconds for female recruits."

Thank you B'sNukeMom.  Yes, we're very aware of those standards.  My son has dropped over 30 lbs (from his football season weight) and is running & working out daily.  I'm so proud of how hard he's working.

That's great!  Sounds like he's ready to go ;-D

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