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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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DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."
Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
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.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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Comment by Ruth, Gun's Mom on April 8, 2009 at 6:10pm
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Just got home from a welcome mission. We went for one soldier and ended up welcoming three! Lots of family and friends in addition to the PGR with a flag line. Reactions are always pretty much the same--embarrassment, then shaking hands, then thanking everyone for taking the time to come welcome a military member. It's humbling on both sides, I think.
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Just to prove that PGR isn't all funerals--we were invited to an elementary school this morning to help with an assembly and presentation of two quilts for brothers who lost their daddy in Iraq. The quilts were made by school kids on an AF base in England for the boys. (www.homeofthebravequilts.com) Beautiful quilts! The kids even earned the money to buy the supplies to make the quilts. While we were there, one of our members explained what the PGR does, with the themes of nothing is free and respect for the flag. Then the kids got to go see the motorcycles!
After that, we went to a rehab nursing home to visit some of the 48 residents that were flown here to Iowa from Fargo, ND, because of the flood. We handed out lots of little flags and got a lot of smiles. I had the privilege of meeting a WWII vet who had been a GM in the South Pacific--my son is a GM.
The neatest part of the visit was going to see a Marine resident from here though. The director said he hadn't really talked or smiled since moving in. Well, our ride captain (a Marine) walked in and barked, "Marine, do you have your shoes shined?" "Did you put the corners on this rack?" The darling old man came to life! He told us where he'd been trained, where he went, where he'd been an instructor. I got a kick out of it when he barked back at our Marine with "John Wayne it!" I'm guessing it's a reference to one of his Marine movies--I'll be asking my husband later about that.
Anyway, it was a great day. Tomorrow the Fargo folks get to fly home--one told us that it was like they'd been on vacation! We're going to do a flag line for them as they board the bus to the airport.
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Welcome, Cheryl! Sadly, we are very busy with some funeral missions this week including three Illinois boys KIA.
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I have a hard time with funerals, too, even WWII veterans, but finally I felt like I had to go--I felt guilty doing all the "fun" things. This last week, I broke down and cried at one--first time I did that--I'm usually pretty composed, but we escorted a soldier home for the last time from Afghanistan. Since my son had been in Afghanistan, it just hit home for me.
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I think I need to clarify this--My area is unusual because many PGR's don't do as much as we do.
All PGR's do what they originally set out to do, "stand for those who stand for us." And that's enough to respect what they do. There's no criticism in that they don't do more or other things--it's just that we have someone in our area who has the passion in his heart to get us involved in more. On my home page, there's a picture of him at the airport sleeping on the floor--Christmas time he was there 24/7 to welcome "our" kids home. Each does what he/she can or wants to do.
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Dolores, The Illinois ride captain sent this message to me:
We have a state wide email database in Illinois for notification and a calendar as well. Advise anyone that you know who signs up to send me an email telling me what town they live in.
I'm not sure what to suggest for those who live in other states other than to contact their State Captain. They can be located under leadership contacts on the left side of the home page.
My area is unusual because many PGR's don't do as much as we do. We have a terrific local ride captain that keeps us busy with events other than funerals, welcomes, and send-offs. We've done parades, flag lines at hockey games, Healing Field....we're invited lots of places. It's all voluntary, you do what your life allows. Since I'm retired, I go a lot. And truly, it's the best support network you could have especially with your own son or daughter in the military. It's a group that understands your joy at a phone call or the worry.
Now I'm going to post this as a discussion so we don't loose the directions on how to sign up!
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The photo is one of our local soldiers home from Walter Reed for a couple weeks. He was wounded in January with an IED. I can't tell you how it hits me every time we do these welcome homes--the happy and sad ones--that it could have been my son last May. We are so blessed.
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I can't remember how I started to get the notifications. I looked at the website, but I'm going to do easy and ask the local ride captain. Memory fades!!!
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The pictures from a mission last week are approved now, so you can see them on my page.
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