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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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October Boot Camp Family

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This group is for Moms and families with loved ones leaving for Boot Camp in October any year. It was started with a group leaving in Oct. 2009.

Members: 137
Latest Activity: Jan 30, 2019

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Comment by Maja/Ship 09 Div 16 on October 14, 2011 at 2:53pm: Ship 09, Division 16. Anyone else?

Comment by momof5~(1CorpMen1Undesignated) on October 14, 2011 at 11:56am: Pentwater98 my son wrote that he has had only about 4hours sleep..I know what you mean.. it does break my heart. He said how hard it is and he hopes he makes it and this is just the first week!

Keep em in our prayers

dawn in mi

Comment by the folks on October 13, 2011 at 9:46pm: Looking for the form letter now and that first letter from my son, got the box,...God Bless all you "waiting"...I heard that the first week of boot camp is mostly sitting in silence processing..

Comment by Pentwater98 on October 13, 2011 at 9:07pm: Got the form letter today.. My SR is in Ship 07 Div 011. He said that he is doing fine but it is hard. He isn't sleeping well and the PO is yelling at them alot. He is staying inviisable most of the time because he is doing what he is told to do. It was great hearing from him but it broke my heart to hear that he wasn't sleeping.

Maja - Just a little warning. I got my SR's address from his recruiter on Tuesday and he gave me the wrong street address. Thank god I saved my letters to my computer and will resend them tomorrow with the correct address. So if I was you I would wait until you get the form letter. Just a little advice.. You can take it or not.. I got the box on Friday and the form letter today.. Now I wish I had waited.

Comment by Mom of a Corpsman on October 13, 2011 at 9:00pm: @maja my daughter is also on Ship 09/Div 016 according to her recruiter

Comment by Maja/Ship 09 Div 16 on October 13, 2011 at 8:26pm: Didn't get "the letter" but did get my daughter's address from her recruiter. Ship 09 Division 016 No graduation date yet. I was so thrilled to get the address. At last the lines of communication with my girl are beginning to open. Will start the "parade of letters" to her tomorrow!

Comment by shannonlee123 on October 13, 2011 at 5:10pm: He has a SEAL contract. He's been training heavily for over a year now. He runs a 6 minute mile!

Comment by lyndahl (04/803) on October 13, 2011 at 3:53pm: shannonlee123....my son is spec ops, earned a diver contract, what about yours?

Comment by Pentwater98 on October 13, 2011 at 8:44am: Keeping my fingers and toes crossed that the form letter comes today... I really need to know how my SR is doing..

Comment by Arwen on October 12, 2011 at 11:16pm: Typically newly arrived A-school sailors are not allowed to go home. They have to report to A school, then go through the leave request process (about 4 days of paperwork). If they aren't there by a week before the holiday shutdown, it is unlikely they will get leave.

If they PIR immediately before Christmas (Dec 23 or 24th) they will get the weekend off, but will not be allowed to go home.

Two years ago they cancelled the Christmas week PIR and moved them all up a week, combining their PIR with the previous week's group. It was a huge PIR with 17 divisions, they could barely fit the recruits' 4 guests into the bleachers, there was no getting any extras in at all. Most of the recruits got to A school early and many were able to take holiday leave.