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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).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**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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If your child is having a hard time with the pfa's or anything of that nature i would love to chat. My son is also in RCU so if anyone would like to talk about that we can
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Discussion Forum
What comes after rcu
Started by Jagsfan. Last reply by lemonelephant Feb 7, 2019. 3 Replies 0 Likes
How many chances
Started by Parrothdgal. Last reply by lemonelephant Dec 11, 2017. 1 Reply 1 Like
Any info anyone
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Comment by Christina on May 19, 2017 at 2:00pm
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so i wonder if my son will call me this weekend
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Comment by lemonelephant on May 17, 2017 at 9:37pm
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Calls from FIT have been as frequent as every week or two weeks and usually on Sunday afternoon to not until the recruit's status changes.
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Comment by FSailorMom on May 17, 2017 at 7:07pm
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I haven't heard from my daughter, who is in FIT, in 10 days. Her PIR should have been last week. I know she is discouraged and sad. All of her phone call would just be her crying and sobbing. Does anyone know how often they get phone privileges in FIT?
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Comment by Cancersux on May 5, 2017 at 7:24am
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So... still waiting for my daughter to go to BST. This is her third week in FIT. She will be going on her fourth week already. Why is it taking so long? Should I contact the PAO? I haven't heard from her since the 22nd. I don't know what to do...
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Cancersux, yes, there have been Sailors come out of FIT. She will go through BST with the next integrated division if she has passed the PFA.
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Has anyones kid gone on to battle stations from FIT? Mine is going on 3 weeks in FIT. My kid is still waiting for an open spot to go on to battle stations. Is this the normal?
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Angela, no, she will not have PIR if she does not pass in time to have PIR with her division. See the info in the link I left on your My Page.
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Comment by Angela on April 25, 2017 at 4:38pm
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@Mgam125....Thank you so much for sharing your experience....I am just a mess right now....When she called to tell me that she had not passed, she sounded so devastated and it just broke my heart....And now not being able to talk to her, to give her encouragement and rebuild her confidence is tearing me apart. I was looking so forward to seeing her @ PIR this Friday and now it does not seem that this will happen.
And I am ok, if it is just a few weeks later that she will go through PIR...I just want her to graduate! What worries me is that she is going to just give up and I don't want her too....She has been planning to join the Navy since her freshman year of high school....She was in ROTC for all 4 years of H.S and even received a leadership award last year from the Military Officer Association of America. I know she wants to be a sailor and I am so extremely worried that she might feel so discouraged right now!
Thank you for the prayers! :-)
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Comment by Mgam125 on April 25, 2017 at 4:20pm
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@ Angela. I was in the same situation. It’s terrible not being there for them. But do not despair. It took my son 8 tries to pass. They want them to pass. I was picturing him sitting in a corner getting yelled at etc, etc. Thankfully I was wrong. My son said they were very positive and encouraging…literally every step of the way. They run MWF. One week we didn’t hear from him so we assumed he failed 3x’s but when he did speak with him he had run only twice that week. Keep your phone very close. During my son's time in FIT he would call for a few minutes on Saturday or Sunday. He didn't want us to send any mail because by the time he would've got it he would have be gone. You NEVER know when you’ll get the "I'm a Sailor" call. She WILL pass! You WILL have a Sailor! Praying for you and her!
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Hi....My daughter called me on Monday (devastated) that she did not pass the running portion of her final PFA. It was so heart breaking to here this news from her....I have been counting down the days until we were going to see her @ PIR and now I don't know what is going to happen. I feel so bad for her because this is the only thing that is holding her back....It is killing me because I can't even talk to her to give her some encouragement. Can anybody fill me in on the process of a SR being in FIT? Is she going to be sent home? How long do they stay in FIT? Can I write her? Can she call me?
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