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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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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.

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Going through A School at San Antonio?

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Comment by lawlady1963 on August 18, 2015 at 9:29pm: My son arrived at MA school this past Saturday 8/15/15. He said classes should start in about a week and a half. So far he is loving it!

Comment by lemonelephant on August 11, 2015 at 2:05pm: mikmack, the new MA's will have to pick up their orders and their records before they leave.

Comment by mikmack on August 11, 2015 at 1:56pm: Immediatelyfollowing the pinning ceremony, are sailors free to leave with family? Directly after PIR,there was a waiting period. Just curious if it's the same for MAA school graduation as well.

Comment by lemonelephant on August 5, 2015 at 8:51pm: If you have a Sailor currently in Lackland or recently graduated from "A" School, please check Break down week by week and see if there is anything that is not current. I added the paragraph about privately owned vehicles since that has come up several times recently and what I have included is based on information that was current about a year ago.

Comment by lemonelephant on August 1, 2015 at 2:49am: For those with a Sailor currently in "A" School or recently graduated, Has Phase III been reinstated? (See the info in Break down week by week and let me know if anything needs to be updated.)

Comment by lemonelephant on August 1, 2015 at 2:42am: Elizabeth, your then Sailor will have daytime Liberty for part of the weekend. If he has completed the requirements to Phase up to Phase I, then he will be able to spend some of that Liberty off base. Some are able to get their Phase I cards by the next weekend after arrival and some are not. If you and your daughter are going to go to San Antonio, it may be incentive to complete everything to get the Phase I card. Yes, Labor Day is a federal holiday, so there will be no classes that day.

Comment by Elizabeth on July 31, 2015 at 3:36pm: OK thank you lemonelephant for the response on both groups :) ... I have a new question (well lots of them but for now just one hehe)

My SR PIR date is 8/28 .. a few days later is our daughters birthday. The following weekend is a 3-day weekend (Labor Day) -- is it crazy to consider flying out to San Antonio for my daughters birthday the first weekend after he arrives? Will they have completed INDOC at this point/ have weekend liberty? Also, is Labor Day considered Holiday routine? Thank you!!

Comment by lemonelephant on July 30, 2015 at 2:15am: Elizabeth, it is very unlikely for your Sailor to fly out on Sunday. That happened years ago, but not now. Now there are typically enough seats on Saturday flights between O'Hare and Midway.

Comment by Elizabeth on July 28, 2015 at 4:37pm: Sorry I have posted this in another group, I am not sure which group is best to ask...

Have any of you experienced your Sailor flying out to A school on a Sunday? (departing Great Lakes after PIR) I am wondering how common this is for Sailors shipping out to San Antonio... Thanks!