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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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**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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Permalink Reply by belovedbyHim on
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Kat,
As a Navy Mom and a Navy Wife what I have to say may sound harsh but it comes from a place of love. If you don't think you can stand 100% behind your sailor, for better or worse, on deployments and when home, for crappy duty stations and sweet assignments, for reserves or active duty... It would be better to let him move on. Being a Navy wife means seeing war break out on the news (Gulf war 1 1990) and while holding your newborn, smiling and telling him that you love him and will be waiting on the Pier when he gets back, despite the fact they had just come home from deployment 9 months earlier. It means watching the towers fall and knowing that your loved one is headed that way or to the sandbox and fixing your hair and makeup, putting on your best smiling face and telling him you'll see him later and that you love him for serving our country first. It's raising a son with the ever present specter of war and death and still standing proudly as he takes that oath that his life belongs to the US Navy first and foremost. It is the hardest, loneliest, heartbreaking and loving choice you can ever make. I was 19 when I made that choice and 20 when I committed for life to be a Navy wife. There were tears, there were times when I wondered if it was worth all the loneliness, all the fear, all the years of raising our 3 kids alone all the wondering if we were moving with the next assignment (We didn't--- all our time was in San Diego! that almost NEVER happens!) Bootcamp is a test for sure. If you decide that this is not the life you want there is no judgement or animosity, it's not a life that most would willingly seek, but the kindest thing you can do is let him move on AFTER BC. Keep all your letters and phone calls positive, even if you are positive that you don't want to live the Navy life. It is a kindness to him and to you. IF you do decide that the sacrifice and knowing that you will always be number 2 in his life and you can wholeheartedly stand with him, then you will know it and you too are one of the few, the 1% who are willing to serve by serving those you love. Bootcamp is the easy bit, it's all the days that follow that are hard! You will never watch global events the same way again, but every time you hear the National Anthem your heart will swell with so much pride that it will leak out your eyes and run down your cheeks. Red, White and Blue will become a huge part of your wardrobe and you will never look at anchors quite the same way again. I didn't have the internet or a larger community to ask when I was dating my DH. I was learning as I went. In some ways that was a blessing but in others it was hard. Those first 2 years were brutal, learning to be a wife but then being left alone in a new city for 6 months to then having to be a wife again to 9 1/2 months later sending him off to war for the first time. It is scary, it is wise of you to take a long and hard look at if this is the life you want or not. Be kind to him and to yourself as you face the future!
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Permalink Reply by Kat on
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Thank you so much for this. I really needed to hear it. I’ve tried to talk to my friends about it but none of them have their partner in the navy or anything. It’s really good to have some advice from someone who has been in my position. I’ve decided that I’m gonna do Asnef you said and wait till AFTER boot camp to many any decisions. I’m going to enjoy my time with him before he leaves. Then I’ll analyze if it’s really want I want. I love him but I’ve fealized that I need to put myself first in something like this. I don’t want to be in a place where I am unhappy, because I know he’ll be unhappy too. It was just a shock because he never mentioned the navy before and he just took the tests without even telling me anything about it. I was hurt and confused, I still am but I’m doing as much research as I can.
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Permalink Reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on
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belovedbyHim - I wish there was a like button for your reply! You put it into words beautifully (and truthfully). And you should post this on the wives and girlfriends page.
Thank you for sharing your journey as a Navy wife and Navy mom!
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