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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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Events
**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.
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.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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AECF - FCs and ETs
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For families that have a loved one serving the Navy as an FC or an ET. This is the place to share and learn more about their jobs and schools. For subs - look for the SECF group.
Members: 834
Latest Activity: Feb 14, 2023
Discussion Forum
Anybody out there?
Started by Jules. Last reply by Bandmom Aug 24, 2021. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Current A school at GL for AECF?
Started by BessLynn423. Last reply by ANOsMom Nov 11, 2019. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Anyone graduating A school on 10/26/18
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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on July 10, 2008 at 9:35am
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Julie, I get our sailors confused too...in fact I was thinking my son just started C school and then I realized - NO, that's Julie's son that started C school!!! lol
Kyle is in the FC program.
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Oh yea! Another one starting A school, but Kyle is exciting too!
Julie are you awake again?!!!!
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Go to sleep Julie! I checked out the photos - nicely done. Thanks for sharing what a current graduation looks like today. It looked like a good size graduation class. My nephew just graduated from A school in Gulfport and the whole ceremony took less than 30 minutes!
I like the smaller classes too for many reasons and I suspect it is a 100% FCs now and they all have the same focus.
One of the FCs in Dahlgreen's C school was kind enough to share that there is only about 300 people on that base and mostly all FCs and civilian workers.
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Great Julie, I will be checking those out. Can you tell us what the graduation was like? Back in the day when my husband was in, they were not very eventful. Short speech, hand shake and certificate, in their classroom and there was very few guests if any. I suspect with the power of this site and everyone's ability to travel, there maybe more guests at A and C school graduations. Can you tell us what it was like?
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Jackie, glad to hear that John got those antibotics in him today, hopefully they will start provide some relief quickly.
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Finally Nancy! Was hoping that we got to hear about your travels as well! lol.
I can imagine being in Boston for the 4th was quite an event but the most important one was spending time with your Sailor!
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So nice to hear from everyone about their travels to see their sailors...trying hard to get over my jealousy that I didn't make the trip to GL! So glad that everyone enjoyed ...photos are welcome!
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You are so right Millye, for everyone but Nancy - we are just in the beginnings of a six year stretch (at least) here. Sharing and supporting one another is what will carry us thru as those orders become real and we start facing our first deployments.
On a different note - just got a bonus call from our son. Two calls...two days in a row! He is heading back to class this evening and had done so yesterday as well. He aced a test yesterday and was pretty pumped up about it. Today they were cleaning out the rooms and gave him some electronics books that he seemed happy to have. His focus seems to be really inplace at A school...may it continue!!!
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Because I value my friendships on this site, I prefer not to get involved any political discussions.
Politics is such an emotional subject but especially when our sons and daughters are serving our country.
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Wanda, the only frustration that our son has expressed with his FC school in GL, is it is too computer driven and not enough hands on. I think it was especially true in ATT, sitting in front of a computer all day reading and then at the end there is a short test for each module.
It's nothing like boot camp at all! They do have long days in classes and they have watch every fourth day but they have liberty every night until 9 pm and on the weekends when they are not on duty. They have one roommate vs. 80!!! And they can have their cell phone and laptops so you can talk to her much more often! Nothing like boot camp at all :-)
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