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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)
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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.
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A group for moms, family members, spouses or significant others of Naval Flight Officers. A place to share stories, information, and to support each other.
Members: 43
Latest Activity: Dec 13, 2021
My son graduated in 2004, was winged in 2006, has been on one deployment, and was recently selected for Test Pilot School- yes they take NFO's! It's been an exciting and sometimes emotional few years.
Please tell us a little about yourself and your NFO. If you have questions about training, deployment, or anything else, please ask. There will be several members with experience to help out the newbies.
Discussion Forum
Travel on USS Theodore Roosevelt - Parent of Officer
Started by ProudStepMom. Last reply by ProudStepMom Feb 14, 2018. 4 Replies 0 Likes
My son said there was a possibility that a family member could travel on the aircraft carrier from Hawaii to California (at the end of deployment). He didn't know if this opportunity was limited to…Continue
Merry Christmas, all!
Started by PattyM Dec 25, 2010. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Hope you all are having a wonderful holiday! Tracy DID get to come home for Christmas weekend :-) I LOOOOOVE having her on the West Coast for the first time in 4 years :-) Love to all....
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Comment by snowmc on April 13, 2010 at 6:25pm
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Thanks for all the info! I expected the whole process to take 2-3 years, so it sounds like I'm not too far off. He has a briefing on Thursday...hopes to have more info then.
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Comment by lou2949 on April 13, 2010 at 6:01pm
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Did her roommate wash out due to the academics or the flying? My son has his pilot's license (he loves to fly) so will skip IFS...how was API?? Any insight would be greatly appreciated...
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Comment by PattyM on April 13, 2010 at 5:58pm
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Hi Betty - I seem to be one of the "old" moms on this site :-) Glad your son got a furnished apartment! I wonder if he got the one my daughter left when she went to JAX in February? Right on the beach...3rd floor condo furnished nicely, a good TV, and a great view of the gulf.
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Congratulations, MeredithsMom...my daughter will be winged as an EP3 NFO in September in JAX! Can't wait to hear all about it!
Snowmc.....IFS takes a couple of months, or however long to get their flight time. My daughter spent some time between IFS and API to get her private pilot's license, too :) How soon do they start? Tracy had 3-1/2 months between IFS and API, and now 14 months out from first arriving in Pensacola, she is now in JAX starting the RAG for EP-3's. She's been there for 2-1/2 months, waiting to start. The Navy's motto is, and always has been "hurry up and wait"..... L0L...was true when my hubby and I were Hospital Corpsmen back in the 1970's and 80's, too :-)
Thoughts and prayers to the families of the crew who went down yesterday. So sad to hear that...again :*(
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Comment by MeredithsMom on April 13, 2010 at 5:55pm
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Our daughter will wing just a couple of weeks short of her 2 year commissioning anniversary. She was stashed for 4 months. IFS took another 4 months with many weather delays. Each phase came easier for her. IFS was the most stressful because she REALLY did not want to pilot an airplane. Her roommate washed out in IFS.
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Heard from son today...API may be 20 weeks out. Still has to do IFS. Veteran moms...how long is IFS and how soon do they usually start that? Also, how long till they are winged? Thanks..from us greenhorn moms!
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It's exciting yes. The crash sort of concentrates your attention on the bigger picture though. She knows many NFO students in that squadron and is pretty certain she knows those lost.
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Have been praying all day for the families of those involved in the crash yesterday.....so sad....
Congratulations MeredithsMom on your daughter's winging next week......we're just beginning this journey and it looks to be a long wait for API class date...it must feel so good to be within a week of your big celebration.....fantastic...
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Our daughter wings as a P3 NFO in JAX next week.
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Pray for the families of the NFOs and crew lost in Georgia.
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