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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.
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Feeling helpless
I finally received some letters from my husband today (6 in total) I thought that I would be jumping up with happiness but I'm FAR from happy. My worst fears has come true and his not happy, I just received his address last Friday but he thinks I was ignoring him. He saids that the only thing he was looking forward to was my letter and out of 93 guys in his Div he was the ONLY one not getting letters. He said being there is like a nightmare and that he regrets everything, he saids being there is not worth losing his family and he cries each and every night. He failed his PT and swimming test.
I feel so helpless this was supposed to be his dreams and that's the ONLY reason why I made peace with him leaving but now he tells me he's not happy and that he made a bad decision. This is the worst I've felt since the day he left :'(
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Permalink Reply by LittleMissRed on
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Thanks so much! I will definitly stalk my mail box today
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Permalink Reply by ddmom on
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Awww, Michelle, I feel the same way, only it's my son. I received his first letter Wednesday and he was everywhere with it, very emotional. It breaks my heart to know he is depressed, physically and mentally fatigued and miserable. He must've been able to write a couple of different days but only able to mail one day. One day he was in hell, the next not so bad, then back to hell. He even wrote help me....what a terrible feeling for a mom to not be able to comfort her child even if he is 18. The only thing that makes it easier on me is that I am an Air Force vet and I know what basic training is like, it's an emotional roller coaster. My dad still has my letters I wrote back in '88, he is forwarding them to my son so he can see that I felt the same way. Just remember, it will get better for them, I know it does, I just wish they knew. Write every day if you can, that way he will get mail often, and remember you are his only contact with the outside world, that by itself is traumatizing, especially when we are all use to cell phones, internet, etc. Hang in there!
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