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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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For moms (and dads), wives (and husbands) and girlfriends (and boyfriends) who survived PIR February 19, 2010 - Including Ship 14 Div 095-100, Ship 7 Div 101-102 and Ship 6 Div 913
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Latest Activity: Dec 2, 2016
PIR 19 Feb 2010
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Comment by Arwen on October 5, 2010 at 11:27am
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Chris is somewhere out in the Pacific Ocean. Although I KNOW he's been in port at least twice since he joined the USS Denver last month, I haven't heard from him. No calls, no letters. The brat, LOL. All I want from him is a little information, like what division he was assigned to and is he happy. All I can do is be patient, eventually he will put pen to paper.
I created a form letter, like the ones that we sent to boot camp, to try to get some answers. I sure hope he actually sends it back.
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Comment by Sarah (BooBoo) on October 5, 2010 at 11:20am
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Wow this group really has been quiet! Slim, Sam can always come up for a weekend if he wants a change of scenery. I'm sure Shawn wouldn't mind seeing him and catching up!
Janet, at least you remembered her birthday. I had to read Shawn several comments off my facebook to get him to remember it. And the sad thing is we were up at midnight doing homework.
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Wow, that's a big box.
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They have Cinnabon? I don't have a Cinnabon. But that may be a good thing (looks at waist).
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Comment by Navy/ArmyMom on September 15, 2010 at 11:31am
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Amen, Charlotte. And next week I believe I can add working about 30 something hours per week back into my life. I'm working with the Hugs Project (getting ready to send Christmas to about 750 troops), I love that!! I'm trying to start helping at the upcoming Church Festival...hopefully raising money for the Hugs Project while helping them too, have a living room with zero furniture in it since we moved last spring, a Navy son soooo busy in his life, Army son about to deploy, a hard working husband, a 12 yr. old with school work galore and a beagle always needing a walk or a backrub or something and a yard to take care of and the inside of the house too. Plus relatives coming for Thanksgiving. There's more but I just can't remember.
I'm not complaining...it's all blessings...just a tad of overload. I want to start to keep a book to write things down in. An agenda, A lot of moms do that and it's time that I do it otherwise I'm going to forget something important. I'm not a spring chicken anymore where I used to be able to keep track of everything in my head. The problem is I can't remember to buy it so I better write that down too. Nothing expensive just a litttle notebook from the dollar store would do.
I really feel the need to focus on our Navy/Army sons too. I'm going to slow down soon so that I can focus on them some more. You can get so busy that too many days pass in between calls or failing to send a little card to them just to say hello or send a care package. I've yet to do that. The care package to my adopted sailor will be the first for me. Since our boys are not too awfully far we have been able to see each other a few times. But we need to make a visit to them soon and focus in on them more. Mother's inuition. You just know when you've not given them the attention and reminders of how much they're loved when you get too busy. You know because there's an emptiness you feel as though you haven't done everything that you should. Gosh, I love them so!
BTW, how long does it take for a care package to arrive? My Navy son felt VERY good about his family adopting a sailor in Iraq. He said, "Way to go, Mom. Definitely send him a football, just don't send him mine which I left in the garage. Buy him a new one." I thought that was sweet.
Okay...one babbling fool here signing off here for now. God bless y'all! Love ya all!
How are everyone's loved ones doing?
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That sounds so nice that they had fun with all of the different things that you sent!! Thank you for reminding me about the pictures. I was going to send our family picture with it which we had made last year the day before our Navy son left for the Great Lakes.
Also, thank you for reminding me about the long forms for customs. I'll try to get a little creative in looking for some things to send to him from our town and our area.
Sandra, It's quite an adjustment preparing for a deployment. You're a wonderful example to me regarding how to cope with it by staying focused on helping them over there. I really respect all that you've done for them. It's the best possible way to not only help them but also to keep from losing our own minds back here. Instead of looking inward and focusing inward you're showing me that I will have to look outward towards them and helping them instead of dwelling on us and how we will feel. This is all about them, not us. Although it is true that Those Who Wait also Serve.
God bless your wonderful son. I love the way he cares so much about those who he's responsible for over there. God bless him. He makes a family like us feel good about the chain of command and that they care very much not only about their physical safety but about their spirits and their morale. Seeing and knowing that their Commanders understand how important it is that our troops can SEE that Americans back home view them with our utmost concern and that we have the deepest possible appreciation to them as well as the greatest amount of respect and admiration. As I've heard it put before, they ARE our country's greatest TREASURE. Thank you so much for showing me this first hand and God bless you and your whole family!
God bless our troops and God bless their families. Please give all of us families the strength and the will and the ability to stay as pro-active as possible in displaying our support at all times whether our loved ones are stateside, about to deploy, deployed or safely back. They need us and we need each other working together as a team and a country on their behalf.
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Hey moms and wives and dads and husbands! I almost have my care package ready to go to my adopted sailor I have gotten most of what I want to send now and will ship it this weekend. I will also be preparing to ship our son care packages as I heard from him this morning and he's leaving soon for Iraq. We will be able to see him before he goes.
I hope you're all doing well. I'm sorry I was very busy last week and was unable to stop in here. I'll read back and catch up on everyone. God bless everyone. I think it's going to be a strange holiday season for us. I have no idea what it's like to have the most important holidays with a loved one in a war zone.I've decided through the suggestion of a wonderful person to wake up every morning and put my son in God's hands and then try to go on as normally as possible. What else can we do? I do expect for the holidays to be low key. I will sew him a Christmas stocking and fill it up and he'll know that we're thinking about him every second. I'm also working with the Blue Star moms preparing the Christmas goodies to send to our troops. Hopefully we might be able to reach about 750 of them with our love and best wishes through the stockings we are preparing for them. Praise God. Please give us all the faith, strength and good health that we need.
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Well Monday at our soccer game we played a team who played very rough and the ref looked the other way. I now have turf burn and a nice bruise/imprint of a soccer ball on my knee. School started this week which would be fine except I developed my 3rd sinus infection this year which is causing me to lose my voice. Plus my parents are visiting next weekend. The only good thing is that Shawn is taking care of me at all hours.
How was your week?
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Slim can we trade mornings?
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Busy busy busy.
Oh, I don't know if anyone realized this, but as of last week none of our sailors are E-1s anymore. All of those who were still E-1s after boot camp and school made E-2 on Sept 1, thanks to "time in rate" advancements.
All sailors who reported to boot camp in the first half of the month (1st - 16th) get their promotions on the first of the month, those who reported in the second half of the month get their promotions on the first of the next month. All of our sailors arrived by the 16th.
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