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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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Care packages for new graduates (a school)
Started by Cali's mama. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Mar 19, 2021. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Looking for current information for my daughter on what's allowed for care packages..idk if it matters that she is in the great lakes location or not..ship 7 div 136...lonely mom with confused tears lol
Bootcamp arrival Sept 8, 2020??
Started by Stephanie0725. Last reply by Shoosh Oct 5, 2020. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Hello! Got the call that my daughter made it to bootcamp quarantine last night 09/08/2020. Looking for other moms out there on the same timeline. Sadie is my baby, only daughter, and only child in the military. I think I am going to need lots of…Continue
PIR DATE: December 13, 2019
Started by Donita. Last reply by Donita Nov 5, 2019. 5 Replies 0 Likes
Anyone else’s recruit have a PIR date ofDecember 13, 2019?Continue
Arrived at boot camp October 2nd
Started by Donita. Last reply by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) Nov 5, 2019. 26 Replies 1 Like
Hey everyone- my daughter left for boot camp October 2nd. I missed a call from her last Friday telling me that her graduation is December 13th. I feel like the worst mom in the world for missing her call. Really didn’t expect her to call so soon but…Continue
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Comment by JayDee659 on January 29, 2019 at 12:00pm
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Blondie, we woke up to 7 degree temps with wind chill of -7. I've noticed that we're not really heating up in the office much, fortunately I know how to dress for winter. My ski shift is tomorrow night and it's supposed to be even colder. Good news is that there probably won't be too many skiers out, so hopefully no incidents.
My daughter is married, is taking every precaution in the world to NOT get pregnant and her husband may not re-enlist so that he can follow her more easily. You never know. Her ship is getting ready to head for the yard so she'll be in for awhile. She's super excited about planting her veggies and getting her home in order (she's not really been there since they bought it). The other day she showed me a picture of the basil sprouting in her hydroponic garden. Must have gotten my mother's green thumb as I can kill a houseplant faster than anyone.
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Comment by Blondie on January 29, 2019 at 10:28am
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My daughter use to talk about all the sailors (kids) getting married, cause they were scared? trying to get out of deployments? Even women sailors getting pregnant so they'd be sent stateside! Very sad. We come from the old culture , so definitely do not understand this. I understand it's a very hard life style, and tuff on a marriage/relationship but it's not the only ones, Many of our husbands travel, my one doctor lives here and her husband lives in Los Vegas....we all seem to make it work. My daughter married a Navy man, since she has gotten out of the Navy (she needed to change specialties or get out) he plans to be a lifer. We have another adopted daughter who was Navy no reservist and FBI, and is married to a Navy diver...Both are happily married. My nephew (retired marine) is on his 2nd marriage. We know others that didn't make it. But in the normal world it's like this also. As Anna said, do we ever know? Marriage is Work no matter the circumstances. It's heart breaking and we have to help pick up the pieces or at least hold their hands while they work on their lives.
Very COLD here, Hope everyone is staying warm and safe.
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Comment by Anna on January 22, 2019 at 10:51pm
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Katski,
I don't know if anyone can say how a relationship will work out with separations and such. My officer daughter's husband couldn't handle my daughter's flying deployment schedule. And he got out of the military and became a paramedic. On the other hand, my son married a young lady back in 2008 and they have gone through many deployments including one in Afghanistan, and many, many moves. They are still totally committed to each other and really love each other!! For some reason my two daughters have not been lucky in the marriage department but both of my boys have good strong marriages. Oldest son is not military at all - not that that alone is a good or bad comparison.
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Comment by bbcregular on January 22, 2019 at 2:35pm
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Thanks Orleander
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Comment by Katski on January 22, 2019 at 12:59pm
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JayDee659 - I can see that for sure - I know that her and your boyfriend have been together since they were 15, they actually enlisted in the DEP program together the summer between their jr and sr yr of high school - and both did quite well as they took leadership roles - both were high ranked in the 4 yrs that they did Marine JROTC in high school and have gone thru so much - they actually started to get married this past summer before going into boot camp - but did make an adult choice I think to wait - the plan they want is to get engaged right after basic, have time to plan a wedding and get married after A school. We have lucked out as this young man we have known him and his family quite well, and these two have been very mature - just was not sure how it works if they are both in the military how it pans out
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Comment by Oleander on January 22, 2019 at 11:45am
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Sending you and your family a prayer bbcregular.
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bbcregular, I sent you a friend request. Then we can email each other. I feel more comfortable with that!
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JayDee, I am excited to meet one of our Navy Moms in person. My hubby and I would love to meet up with y’all. Is it okay to give you my cell number on this site? I trust it but... I do make mistakes. JoAnn & Bob
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bbcregular, I will be in Clearwater next month. Would you like to try and meet for lunch or something?
BuoyLou & Karski, I don't know for certain, but I think part of the marriage deal is that these kids are "adulting" at a young age and want to go through this with someone. By getting married they form a bond with someone that they hope will move through the process with them. Once they get used to being "adults" that bond may thin and break since many of them only had the military as their common bond. It's like a workplace friendship, if you don't have much in common except that you work together the friendship ends when one of the friends goes to a new job. Maybe they keep in touch for awhile or meet for drinks but before long they've drifted away due to lack of commonality or you've let them go for the same reason.
That being said, my daughter got married at 19. Her high school boyfriend gave her a ring after she finished BC, then broke up with her a week later when he realized he wanted someone who was "here", not away. Very soon afterward she started dating another Nuke and they got married 4 months later. July will be 3 years for them and things seem to be going well, I pray that it continues. I was married at 20 to my high school sweetheart and we'll be married 32 years this summer. My daughters know that we've had good & bad times and that we chose to sustain the marriage even when things were horrible. Maybe that helps them, maybe not. In the end you cannot control other people.
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Anna,
We are in Tampa right now for a Fleetwood Rally, then on to Clearbrook just south of Orlando for a month. We will then go to another rally for Passport America in Tallahassee. Then another for FMCA in Perry, GA. Just thought it would be a good way to get our feet wet and meet people at Rallies. We are going to spend a while at Uchee campground at Fort Benning. Hope to go to the infantry museum and look around base. Hubby is Army Veteran and spent a lot of time at Fort Benning. By May we will head back to NC for doctor appointments and make our next summer plans. It is going to be quite an adventure. Hope to spend the next winter in Arizona and Southern California.
Thanks for the words of support for my sailor. She is going to request another year in SK just so she does not have to go to a different command while going through her divorce.
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