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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.

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**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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PIR 07/29/11

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TG 37-9 DIVISIONS (235-242) &937 GRADUATION: FRIDAY JULY 29, 2011

Members: 82
Latest Activity: May 15, 2015

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Comment by Mel on June 16, 2011 at 2:18pm: Does anyone know how to get and extra ticket to graduation? I have 2 sets of grandparents who what to go to graduation. Any advise how I get a total of 5 tickets?

Comment by diannep on June 16, 2011 at 12:42pm: Glad you are better, Lala.

Ladies, usually they are not allowed to write for about 2 weeks...sometimes maybe a bit earlier....many times by the time they do write, they haven't received your letters yet...the letters may be there, but still held from them....but during the time their letter to you is in transit, they could receive your letters. So don't be surprised if you get something in their letter to you saying: Why haven't you written?

HA! Don't panic. Happens all the time and most times, you find out that letters were delivered to them after they had written your letter.

nicole: If he just arrived the 6th, then he may just be getting out of processing days. Processing days can go for a week to sometimes two weeks. They have to "fill up" the divisions too...just because your SR arrived earlier than another one on here doesn't mean that they will start training first. Divisions in the same PIR group start training on different days....brother divisions will train together. All divisions should start training within about 5 days of each other, and that allows them to graduate together.

Brother divisions in this group are:

235+236, 237+238, 239+240, 241+242

Comment by Mel on June 16, 2011 at 12:32pm: Hope letters come to the upper West Coast too!! Here's to crossing my fingers and watching for the mail carrier!!! :D

Comment by djrnova ship 07 Div 242 on June 16, 2011 at 10:56am: Thanks Lala Ribbon I do also, I can't wait 8)

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 16, 2011 at 10:21am: It is so good just to hear their voice. It is such a relief or at least it was for me. They hold the mail for the first 2 weeks or so. They have to train a person to handle the mail because it is a federal job. Hopefully he will get your letters very soon :-)

Comment by djrnova ship 07 Div 242 on June 16, 2011 at 9:53am: Talked to my SR yesterday he said he didn't get any letters yet. that is all he could say he was just calling to get info for some forms he was filling out. but it was nice to here his voice he sounded alot better then when he called the first time.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 16, 2011 at 9:35am: I hope you get one soon Nicole. I will say it would not be good if I had been that close to the base I would have been driving up there a couple times a week driving around and around the base trying to catch a glimpse of my Sailor. Someone would have had to bail me out of jail in time for PIR lol

Comment by nicole~a sailors girl(: on June 16, 2011 at 9:22am: No letters yet here and im 3 hours from base. He's only been in since the 6th though

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 16, 2011 at 9:00am: I am feeling better Diannep thanks, and I am now taking antibiotics for my sinuses.

Whitemountain- they don't pull everyones wisdom teeth but they do pull a lot of them. If they look like they will be a problem at all in the future they take them out. Much better to do it now than to have a problem with them while out on a ship or tour.

And, it is a great idea to send that envelope with a few stamps on it to send home all her letters. And your regular letters and cards don't have to be in plain white envelopes. I know several on here suggest it. I think a recruit got razzed over a pretty colorful envelope with drawings or stickers on the back but most of the RDC's don't say anything about colored envelopes at all. All of my envelope were colored, they had a watermark American Flag that covered the whole envelope. And my daughter/Sailor sent pretty envelopes to her boyfriend (now husband) while he was at bootcamp and she put stickers on the back and drew little hearts on them lol. She said if he got razzed about them it would be fine, he needed to be NAVY tough lol, I think she was a little disappointed that no one gave him a hard time about them :-)

And later, closer to PIR you can also send contacts and a small bottle of solution for them to have for pics and PIR and some of the females will even have you send them some basic make-up and even a hair straightener :-) Of course for pics and PIR use only.

Comment by whitemountain on June 16, 2011 at 8:29am: strawberry...do they pull everyone's wisdom teeth? She didn't mention it...but we didn't have much time...