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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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**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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PIR 11/5/2010 alums

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Group for mom, wives, sisters, and other family members with recruits with a PIR date of November 5, 2010. We are staying in touch!!

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Comment by Pam1957 on December 19, 2010 at 11:45am: Robin our DVD arrived last week. Maybe your's will show up this week and if not call the Nex Photographer. I don't have that number handy, but I know it is somewhere on their site.

Glad your son is home...ours came home on Tuesday. Enjoy!

Comment by Robin(Corpsman-DA Mom) on December 19, 2010 at 2:38am: Has everyone been getting their DVD of the graduation? I haven't received mine yet and can't remember who we are supposed to contact to check on it. Anyone have any information?

On a happier note, my son flew in from Great Lakes yesterday afternoon!!! and will be home till Jan. 1. He is in Corpsman school at GL. Very cold up there. He's glad to be back in the south! (Louisiana)

Hope everyone enjoys their time with their sailors!

Merry Christmas!!!!

Comment by Lynne on December 15, 2010 at 1:53am: There was no discount flying out of Pensacola...lol...but oh well..6 boys...omg...my stomach and other parts hurt thinking about that...lol..I don't think I could take letting go six times...lol...nope...nope...couldn't do it...you're a bigger person than me sunny!!

Comment by Pam1957 on December 14, 2010 at 7:30pm: They do get some kind of discount, but I don't think that it is very much. It's a shame...Wow 6 boys sunnydg holy cow! You deserve a medal! I only had 2 boys and cannot even start to imagine having 6! Any daughters?

Comment by Pam1957 on December 14, 2010 at 4:14pm: Thanks Sunny for the info...5 months is not bad. I found out from my son that they will be in land barracks. It's to cold there to stay on ship is what he heard. I'm excited to tell him that it may only be 5 months in drydock. He had heard 2 years through the rumor mill, so 5 months sounds better. He is anxious to get underway...I'm not. lol

Lynne you made me feel better about the air-fare and I will tell my son what it cost you. Gosh...all the military people should fly for next to nothing. Years ago they were given priority and did a lot of plane hopping (cargo planes, etc.) now they are not allowed to do that. My brother was in the Marines and it would hardly cost him anything to get home. Boy, things sure have changed!

Comment by Lynne on December 14, 2010 at 3:41pm: You mean I have to let go...now sunny it is Christmas...that is plain cruel....lol!! I don't know...we talk too and you are right it isn't the same...I wish I had an answer...

Comment by Lisa (MMNuke Mom) on December 14, 2010 at 3:30pm: sunnydg, I know just what you mean. I have 3 kiddos altogether ( he's the middle one, at 18), and I miss him so much! He even asked me yesterday - mom, what's the big deal? It's not like I'm the only one gone. You act like you're never gonna see me again! Oh, well, at least he knows he's loved! :)

Pam, checked with my cousin on the Nimitz. Here's what he said:

"well so far we're not really doing much. it looks like its gonna b that way for awhile too. a lot of training is whats most likely gonna happen. im going home for christmas which is awesome because i havent been home for christmas in about 3 yrs."

He didn't say if they were going to stay on ship or land tho. They are supposed to be there for about 5 months tho.

Comment by Lynne on December 13, 2010 at 9:14pm: I hear ya about that...but don't feel too bad...my son's ticket cost 700.00...and we only live 500 miles from Pensacola...and I got it at Thanksgiving...lol

Comment by Pam1957 on December 13, 2010 at 8:52pm: Thanks Lynne...I have no idea whether he is going to be on the ship or in the land-based housing. I will find out tomorrow night when he comes home! Yeah! And, he DID have a good time with his group down in Pensacola! A couple of them will be going with him to the Nimitz and the others are spread out all over the place.

We live in Illinois and have to go to Wisconsin (2 hours away) tomorrow night at 11:30 pm to pick him up at Mitchell Field. The Navy blundered big-time and had him checking into his base on Christmas Day! It took Joe all day today to get things straightened out. They had two sets of orders for him and two sets of airline tickets which all got cancelled inadvertenly and now it is costing the poor kid over $600 to get home and fly to Washington on his check in day, which is now the corrected one of December 27. There was so much drama involved in this today that I am mentally exhausted! No one in Pensacola wanted to take on this task of fixing the problem for them. There was 6 of them with the wrong orders! Gosh! We are just glad that he is coming home and would drive to tim-buck-two if we had to...lol

Comment by Lynne on December 13, 2010 at 7:18pm: Dry dock is the time between deployments when everything is gone over on the ship...and everything gets spiffed up, painted, fixed, and readied for the next deployment. The Sailors love it because they are land based for a while...now will your son be living on the ship...or will he go into housing. This is a new thing for the Navy...it used to be that everyone single under E-5 lived on the ship, even when dry docked, however now they have learned that it seems to be better for them emotionally (duh, as moms we could have told them that) to put them in off-ship housing more like what they had at A-school.

That Pensacola group is like a party isn't it...it is kind of fun...I almost feel guilty because holy toledo...I do hear some of the groups are not as fun....lol...but I won't be in that group forever. Now how cool is it that in this short time two connections were made...lol