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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.
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Moms with Aviators in training in Corpus Christi
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Comment by Paymaster on February 21, 2014 at 7:23pm
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Thanks, Suzie! Looking forward to the patch frame.
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Someone here was doing a patch board, can you share a picture of the finished project please. Have a son coming up on a birthday and it would make a great gift for that hard to buy for son. Thanks!
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Comment by Barb on February 19, 2014 at 8:54pm
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Suzie, how are you doing? I have been thinking much about you and your DS and SERE. Prayers for comfort.
My husband is helping DS prepare for move to LeMoore. We drove to Memphis to exchange DS's dog and my husband. My tears were for saying goodbye to my son before his move and SERE, leaving my husband behind for ten days and giving back his little dog that, okay, I had grown ridiculously attached to!! They headed back to Kingsville and me, alone, to MI.
I think our winging gifts went over really well. The sibs gave him the matted artwork of his three aircraft, we gave him a goPro camera and I made him a book of the last two years' journey. My daughter arranged for a flag to be flown over the Capitol. The aunts and uncles gave him an engraved Navy box from Things Remembered. We had the cousins all write notes to go inside. Thank you all for the great ideas posted here from over the last couple of years!
I heard about a company that makes vintage-looking squadron posters. Let me know if you would like the link. Leslie, thanks for the charm detail too.
Have a great evening all!
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CheriH, enjoy!
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Comment by CheriH on February 12, 2014 at 9:27am
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Oh happy day....leaving tomorrow for my brother's wedding in Florida. Both my kids and their spouses will be there for the festivities. It may be the only time we are all together for 2014, so I'd better take the Christmas card picture!
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Comment by AH on February 11, 2014 at 9:06pm
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It is just crazy all the delays. My DS hasn't had that many delays over the years. The hardest are during training. It just doesn't make sense to keep the SNAs out there when apparently there is need in the fleet. I understand that some of their instructors are being sent out to the fleet. So far, DS hasn't been called back up to the fleet, but I know it is a possibility.
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Comment by Marianne on February 11, 2014 at 10:40am
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Kris P - Just posted on NFO, but wanted to also congratulate you and DS here on Top Gun. Conor did teh two month course last year. It was awesome, but they work them 24/7.
It's a great honor and nice to see our guys rewarded for all their hard work.
Several months to go before we will find out where DS will be after Japan. Atsugi got 8" of snow over the weekend and basically shut down. In Chicago, we are getting so used to it that a snow like that might not even rate a snow day at my school. On the other hand, these actual temps of sub-zero have already lost us 4 days. My mantra is "Every day is one day closer to Spring!".
Congrats on the lovely winging, Barb. Now the adventure really begins!
Good luck to all with the crazy weather this year. Hope you all stay safe and warm.
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Having delays in Oceana as well AH. DS has been bumped two classes so far, and he'll be there 6 months before he even begins classes. He's going to work on getting his commercial license in the meantime, and is trying to get sim time. Very frustrating for them.
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Hi all. I haven't posted for awhile. Good news over the holidays. Our DS proposed to his GF and he accepted. We are very happy or him and absolutely adore our future DIL. No date yet. We do have a year........2015.
I am going in Friday for a complete plumbing removal. All fine, but want to make sure that problems in the last year doesn't turn into anything worse. Seriously though, I am looking forward to be off for a few weeks.
DS hasn't been flying much. Anyone with a SNA out in Lemoore knows that they are short of planes and money. It is frustrating for him as he almost lost his NATOPS rating for being just an hour short. They are having problems keeping the fleet supplied with SNAs due to this. I guess Oceana has the planes and money, but can't keep up with the demand. Sort of a vicious circle. DS is training in the SIMS for the West Coast Demo team but they can't fly actual planes yet or even at all. The whole season is up in the air right now. He has said that it is the most intense flying that he has done in his almost 7 years of flying Super hornets.
Well,the pup I saying it is bedtime. Have a great week everyone.
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Comment by Dawn on February 10, 2014 at 6:53pm
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Great picture Barb. My son is also in Kingsville. Hope to be at winging I the Fall!
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