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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 husband is in boot camp right now. He was accepted into the AECF and he was choosing ET. Does anyone know how long and where schooling is? Anything that would be beneficial. My daughters and I arenr able to join him because we were told his A school is only like 7 to 9 weeks. Then we will find out more about C school. Is there right or does anyone have better information I could read?

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Oh awesome. So more than likely my girls and I will he able to join him while he is in school. That's a relief!
Jodie- it is my understanding that ATT school is 11 weeks followed by 19 weeks of "A" school. There is also " holding" time, waiting for class to start. My daughter graduated 12/31 and is still on hold. ( I'm told expect for her to be there about a year) bootcamp has the largest amount of recruits June- October so there tends to be a back up of sailors waiting for their classes.
So do they get held at GL or do they get to come home? I think when they told him nine weeks he thought they said A school not ATT. ATT makes more sense with the timeline.
My son took (given) ET. He stayed in bachelor dorm on hold for about 6 weeks while paperwork done for his wife & kids to move up. He graduated rtc 8/27/2010. Wait for ATT class was about 2--3 mo which they hate. Then A school there for 40-42 weeks. Then they are sent to their bases for ships. Mine sent to FL got 2 weeks off to go see family & find house & then promptly left in night (much easier on him & yall) to Norfolk VA for 2.5 months of C school. Those can be all over so u won't follow that. Then back to base & deployment. Some guys went straight on to ships. It is always the Needs/wants of the navy. He was #1 in all his classes. My best advise, start the paperwork for yall to move to base at Great Lakes as soon as he can. Good luck

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