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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 as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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.
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Going through A School at San Antonio?
Members: 706
Latest Activity: Jun 19, 2022
Discussion Forum
Break down week by week
Started by lemonelephant. Last reply by lemonelephant Jul 25, 2018. 196 Replies 36 Likes
Flights from Bootcamp to San Antonio for MA School
Started by julie. Last reply by lemonelephant Jan 19, 2017. 7 Replies 1 Like
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Comment by missmygirl(ship12/Div121) on April 17, 2012 at 9:55pm
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Asterzmom, I recognize your name, my daughter graduated last weekend in div 121 and she is an MA in San Antonio. So far she LOVES it there. I am not certain if I should go for graduation or go and visit. How is your daughter doing? After not talking to Her for so long we now say good morning and goodnite every day!
Lemon Elephant, thank you for the warm welcome, I look forward to getting to know you guys!
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Comment by lemonelephant on April 17, 2012 at 9:31pm
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Welcome to our new members--those who have posted and those who have joined and have not yet posted. Be sure to check out the Discussions above and also feel free to ask any questions you have. We are a pretty friendly group and there are some with recent graduates as well as some of us who have been here a while (my MA graduated A School in Dec. 2008), so if you have a need to know, we can most likely help.
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Comment by asterzmom(ship03-div117) on April 17, 2012 at 7:09pm
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Hi everybody my daughter arrived at San Antonio on this past Saturday .... she is there for Ma school she statred yesterday.... so anything y'all can help me out with will be great... not sure what questions I need to ask yet but if you thimk of anything I need to know please send it my way....
Just a little about me I was born in TX (military brat) grew up in TN, but spent most of my summers in Austin that is were my daughter spent most of hers too.... my moms family all live there....
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Comment by rluv76-ship09/div144 on April 17, 2012 at 6:39pm
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Hi every one Im not a mom of a MA but I am an Aunt of one he will be there on the 23 of April. He was Happy I joined your group,hoping we can get lots of good advice on what school is like and the life of a MA. My daughter is in boot camp as I write this PIR is 05/11/12. I have another Nephew leaving in the fall...We are going to be a big navy family here soon.
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Welcome missmygirl. Be sure to check out the discussions above (Click View All) and feel free to ask anything if you have any questions.
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My daughter arrived last night in San Antonio after her graduation Friday, I am looking forward to getting to know you mom's. Congrats to the new sailors!
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As I understand it, C School graduations are not such a big deal, but I am going to my Sailor's this summer since I wasn't able to go for his A School graduation due to the timing. They complete C School and get a certificate. They only get pinned after A School.
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Comment by chriscwick on April 14, 2012 at 5:16pm
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Got a date for MWD Handler graduation! So excited, Chris's 90 year old grand dad will be in attendance, as will Alex & myself! Wish his Grammies could be there...
Anyone know if they get "pinned" like MAA graduation? Be neat if my Dad could do it. He was on the base in 1943 in the Army Air Corps. when it was called Kelly Field. Met & married my Mom there before going overseas during WWII.
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Staci, have you checked the discussion above, Graduation Info for Lackland AFB - Navy MA graduation; Places to s...? I didn't go down for my Sailor's graduation from A School, so I don't know other than what has been posted there or on the Comment Wall. I will be going down this summer when my Sailor graduates C School and probably the weekend that he checks in as well.
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Today is Chris's 2nd anniversary of enlisting in the NAVY!
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