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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.
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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Comment by susane on July 15, 2010 at 5:16pm
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Latest letter from Chris says his back still hurting a lot and he is scheduled to see the Dr on the 20th to see if they will let him begin PFA. He's trying to tough it out and get throught PFA and BS. Things should improve after that. I hope.
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I know you must be on cloud 9, TammySue! That is the best news. My son is still there. The news last week was that the drs have decided he has a few joints in mid spine that need adjusting to work properly, so he is seeing a chiropractor in addition to phys therapy. Thankfully he is over the bronchitis and flu that knocked him down for a couple of weeks. I am so looking forward to hearing he is FFD soon. Congrats again, TammySue!!
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Comment by TN Navy Mom (Stennis Nuke Mom) on July 13, 2010 at 10:50am
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TammySue - congrats!! So glad to hear she's doing well. My son was held at Great Lakes for about a month after completing Battle Stations. More tests on his chest because spots showed on xrays. Turns out he had pneumonia and probably developed it not long after arriving. So much attention to his knee that he wasn't worried about his breathing. Mine was sent to THU (temporary holding unit) and actually got more liberty time. Hope all goes as well for Bailey.
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Not a word from my son all this past weekend. Wish I could hear what's going on!!! hopefully, he is getting better and doing his PFA workouts. I comfort myself knowing that no news is good news.
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Wonder what our SR's will be doing during the long holiday weekend. Will they get any R&R?
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My son went to ship 6 last Monday and hir PIR was supposed to be today. I wrote him and asked about the photos. Could take a while for an answer, so will wait and see. Don't know of any website but I saw (can't remember where) on a discussion a phone number for NEX to order photos after the PIR.
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susane - it may depend on when he went to Ship 6. My sailor went to RCU the week his photos were to be made and was on LLD during the photos so his picture was not made. He also was leaving his division to go to RCU. He told us that since he was no longer going to be part of the division and the photos include a divisional photo, his were not made. He has promised me that he will have formal photos made in his uniform while he is in A school. I had to drag the info about pictures out of him before he finished bootcamp. Ask you SR if he had his photos made.
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I read somewhere the recruits take pictures midway through bootcamp. My son won't make his PIR (which is today) and was moved to Ship 6 due to health problems and failing PFA. Does he still get the photos? I wonder if they let him mail them home?
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Thanks Vicki. I feel a connection when I am on this site. It relly helps to talk to others about their experiences. My son is not very talkative about stuff and all his phone call times go to his wife. Will chat more later; I gotta run off to the commissary (we are retired Air Force).
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Hello. My son's wife informed us Monday that he called and said he wasn't going to BS21 that evening because he didn't pass his PFA. He's had plenty of illness and is still being treated. He was moved to Ship 6 Div 2347. So he will miss PIR scheduled for 7/01/10. As disappointing as it is, I am happy to have found this thread and learn about this situation. I have only read back through April 2010 but I hope to befriend current moms and wives/gf going through similar things with their soon-to-be-sailor. Chris is supposed to go to A School at GL. Are they allowed visitors or liberty while there at A School? We are trying to figure out when we can come see him. We live in Colorado, so it's not a quick trip.
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