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Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak
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
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He will not be granted leave while in A school, nor will he be able to fly home on long weekends on liberty. You cannot set a date before he even goes to boot camp! Drop the idea of invitations and Save the Dates until he checks into his school after boot camp. Traditional methods no longer work for you. Welcome to the world of flexibility and innovation. No money down on venues or vendors, unless they have a decent military clause. You can do this! Just not in the usual ways. The Navy will set your wedding date for you, unfortunately.
(Liberty is normal time off such as evenings and weekends, and there is a limit on how far they may travel. Leave is earned, paid vacation days and they may fly home on leave. They must request leave in writing; they earn 2.5 days each month.)
What really happens: A school is always longer than the stated seat time. That nine months is a low estimate, not a hard and fast guarantee. There are holds and indocs and waiting periods which are not on paper. Also, that has to be one single school to count for moving a dependent, and does not combine A and C schools. So you must wait and see what the current policy is when he checks in. P-cola is very strict and some spouses did not get to move although the school was over 20 weeks. I think P-cola goes by 26 weeks?
Timing when he can come home for a wedding: during the Christmas stand down when he is guaranteed two weeks of leave, or after A school when he gets a week to ten days (possible after C school, it depends on how fast the training pipeline is moving). The other option is you go to P-cola and marry once he has earned his liberty phase two or three. He has to ask permission in writing, but that is not a problem. They will probably make him go to a class or a counseling session. No big deal, just be aware of it.
Option three: marry right now. He is more than 60 days out from shipping, plenty of time for the recruiter to do the paperwork.
A married sailor lives in the barracks if they are unaccompanied or not authorized to Live Ashore at training commands. But yes, they do receive BAH (basic allowance for housing) for their dependent. During school, that is based on the zip code of where the dependent lives. In the fleet, it is based on the zip code of the duty station, as they expect the dependent to move there and reside with the sailor.
AECF in Great Lakes and certain schools in Groton allow Live Ashore.
Nine weeks, so he will be there a little longer than that. He will probably wait to class up, so it will be difficult to know when he will graduate. Well, that narrows your options. Marry right now, or marry when he gets a week of leave after A school (date unknown and he will already have orders in hand).
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