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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
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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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Hello Johnswifeee. Welcome to the EOD family.
Hi all, my son arrived at RTC Monday night. Very excited for him. This is what he has wanted to do since he was a little boy.
Thanks Kitabear. That's good to know!
Mine hated boot camp for that reason. He has one friend that he went through DEPS with that just turned 21 but he didn't enjoy being around all the other ones that had never worked or been away from home. Your son may like EOD better for that reason, they seem to be a little older.
My son reminds me that these kids, and they are kids at 19 and 20 act like they are in college--first time away from mom and dad, lack of supervision, etc. Mine is 28, light years away from these young men. It's so hard for these young ones to be training with those who are 24, 25, 28 and have had those crazy years and are now ready to settle down.
Hi Eagle!
I think its very sad to see, when my son was in training, I think it was just prior to dive school, two guys showed up for a morning drill at the beach, still drunk from the night before. They were promptly sent home.
That is awful and I'm sure those young men rue that very bad decision, and will for the rest of their lives. So often young men make life altering decisions without realizing or considering the consequences.
Unfortunately no one can stop them from making those decisions while impaired, or even before.
Yes NavyM♥m! It is so great to hear the "life after BUD/S" success stories. It takes awhile for the sting to wear off, but it does....
Mine didn't DOR but the story is still similar. After months of training before BC and months of training during BUD/S he was sat in a room for an hour with a sheet of paper with rates on it. Talk about stress!
Excited to be here to follow his path.
Thanks NavyMom for the encouragement! I'm so happy for him that things worked out. It seems a lot of them don't end up where they start but its great to hear a happy ending.
My son ALSO does not want to be on a ship! After DOR in Buds he didn't have a Plan B. So when they gave him job offers he only had a few hours to decide. Made the wrong choice & ended assigned to a ship for 1 yr. at the age of 28... ugh. But the good news is that it taught him the Navy ways...painting, sweeping, grunt work. He earned the Surface Warfare medal & made a good name & reputation for himself. His chief had him training & teaching the younger guys. By the time he got to his first EOD training some of the officers were already waiting to meet him.
5 ys. later he's now an EOD Second Class Petty Officer. Loves it. A lot of his missions so far are diving & checking under ships in ports. He's had a few land missions but those only lasted a few days.
About 70 % of the deployments he's been on ~ he's stayed either on a base or in hotels. He stayed in a 5 star hotel for 6 mos. in Dubai! Poor guy :) :)
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