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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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My son received his hard orders to report to Camp Lejeune April 1st this is unexpected he's a reservist we thought he was going to Virginia to the hospital what can we expect will he be deployed with Marines has anyone experienced this before please share

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Hi, nikki, I'm not sure how reservists works, and since it's been quite a while since my son took his FMTB training, a lot has changed. At one point, when the US was very active in two combat zones,, pretty much all graduating corpsmen took this training in a "be prepared" scenario. 

I would suggest going to the main  Corpsman moms page to post your concerns and comments, it will get a lot more attention than coming over to the discussion area.

My son loved his years serving with the Marines, he still considered himself more Marine than sailor when he left the Navy after 7 years in . 

Nikki, is he being sent to attend Field Medical Training Battalion at Camp Lejeune?  If so, that's an eight-week training program that nearly every corpsman goes through eventually.  Read this to learn about FMTB:  "What is Field Medical Training Battalion?"   Going through FMTB does NOT mean that he would stay on at Camp Lejeune afterward.

If he says that he is headed to a hospital in Virginia, then he is likely headed to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (Virginia) immediately after completing FMTB.  

Nikki,
My son is a corpsman who was stationed with the Marines at Camp Pendleton in California. After he finished his A School in San Antonio, he served at a hospital in Jacksonville, FL. Unfortunately, he was not that happy in Florida. He is a California native, so he asked to go through FMTB school. He also obtained his FMF while being stationed with the Marines for over three years. He also was deployed with the Marines to Okinawa, Japan, and Korea. He loved his time with the Marines.
He is now in C School for Preventative Medicine in San Antonio. He has told me that he would have no problem going back to Camp Pendleton.
Do not worry. The Marines love their corpsman, and they protect them.
I worried the most when he was deployed, but everyone came back safely.
My son went through the training and ended up with a Seabee unit. Not everyone goes with the Marines.

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