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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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Events
**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).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**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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Comment by PKM on May 10, 2018 at 10:02am
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You are so right. My son was sick for 6 weeks total before he finally got healthy. But he kept pushing through. Oh yeah, They also loose their voices too.
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PKM,
Yes, each OCS class seems to have a wave of upper respiratory illness sweep through in the early weeks. The candidates live in such close quarters, and are under such physical and emotional stress and lack of sleep, that their immune systems get weakened. Someone always brings in a bug, and then they all get it.
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I heard a story about someone thinking that sending a potato was funny. Not for the Person at OCS...... To family of a son/daughter at OCS believe in your candidate, write letters of encouragement and the weeks go by quickly. If they get Rolled into holding company; it is not as big a deal as it sounds. It gives them a chance to improve where they are weak. Oh yeah, they will probably get sick, my son did; but they will get through that too.
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PKM
You are right about sending nothing but letters to OCS. In my son's class, someone's dear Auntie innocently sent their candidate COOKIES at week three. The Drill Instructor made the poor kid do 800 (that's Eight Hundred) pushups as punishment for contraband! OCS didn't really make it clear back then that they weren't to be sent anything, so you can imagine how bad his Aunt felt about that, not to mention how bad the candidate felt!!!!
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Good Evening:
I am revising my earlier suggestion of sending a protractor with your child heading off to OCS. I just had an afternoon with my OCS Graduate and he said, "Do Not send anything that is not on the approved list." His advice was to just take what is on the list and a change of civilian clothes. He said have friends and family send lots of letters. Also, Please tell friends and family that even if they think it might be funny; DO NOT, PLEASE DO NOT send No Contraband.
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PKM,
Yes, those encouraging letters from home to OCS are so important, even if they don't admit it, because it is their only connection to the outside world for many weeks.
The candidates are deliberately kept isolated from TV, newspapers, internet, and smart phones at first to wean them off constant communication with their loved ones. When they are deployed on a ship or sub, there is infrequent communication, and it can be quite difficult if both parties are used to constantly texting. Letters and care packages are also so important when they are deployed!!
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Welcome to any Mom future or past. It was quite an adventure having a son at OCS. Viewing the photos on the website was a great way to see what is going on. Worrying if they will get rolled and how to support them if they do. My son said the letters he received was the best support he could get.
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Welcome back, LEANNEJB!
My son graduated from OCS in 2012. So much has changed now from how it was done back then, but we can still offer support to the new OCS Moms. I just remember feeling very anxious while my son was at OCS, and fearful that he wouldn't make it, and I appreciated the support I found here from the veteran OCS Moms, so I try to pay it forward.
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Hello:
If your sending you Child (funny we use the word child, but they always are our children) to OCS, send a protractor with them. It will help with making the bed perfect.
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Hey Everyone! My son graduated from OCS in 2010 (and is in the training pipeline for his department he'd tour aboard a surface ship) so my info about OCS itself is a bit dated. But I traveled to Newport 1-2 times per month for the last 5 years (up until last summer) when I worked for the Navy so I may have some info there. Even though I was an OCS graduate many, many years ago, this forum was very helpful when my son was in OCS and I'm still friends with some of the folks I met on this forum. Thanks for accepting me (again) in the group!
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