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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
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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.
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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Permalink Reply by lauren on
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yes it is a great idea and I have been saying I am going to make him one for 5 YES 5 years ...maybe now I will
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Permalink Reply by Laura A. on
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Yes that is a great idea, I never thought of that. I will get started. Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Rhonda8881 on
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I have everything since he enlisted in Oct. 2006, but haven't put anything in a scrapbook yet. I am a huge procrastinator and once I start a project I don't want to stop until it is complete. Not for anything....even cooking and cleaning! I call it hyper focusing and my husband calls it bad!
I do plan to get a scrapbook to put it all in someday. Just don't know what kind of book to get.
Have lots of momentos for accomplishments to put in it, except the ones he receives now because he keeps them and won't send me any copies. He has 2 NAM's and a couple of complimentary letters that I have never seen and I am afraid he will lose them all!
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I'm not a scrapbooker. I am a huge Procrastinator.... (someone in another group the other day said "deadline oriented"). I have seen beautiful leather books other Moms have started they say NAVY in embossed letters across the front. I believe they got them at Michaels.
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Permalink Reply by Angel of Freedom on
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Thank you for the information. I am a terrible procrastinator too but I know it will mean a lot to my sailor later. I am going to think about this. He has all his mementos but there are news clippings and online Navy stories of them coming to port that i could print for him. Maybe I will buy a nice scrapbook and let him fill it in with me when he is on leave or something since I know he keeps himself busy and they don't have much space on the sub to keep things when they are deployed. we had talked about sending a diary with him when he was going on his first deployment but he decided there was not time to write in it and he was right. Even now that he has his required quals, he is busy taking college correspondence the Navy pays for if you keep your grades up. I like the idea though. Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Rose7..Norfolk on
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I have 3 kids and for all of them I have a scrap book since they born, all school pictures and...... When he enlisted I went looking around for a Navy scrap book and found one in Michael Store. Regular price 30.00, bought for 20.00 in special. I don't know how is in other places but down here in FL the kids have to go to PT twice a week and second Saturday of the month. Our recruit (awesome one) took pictures of the kids in one of the trainings and I have all of them. Also I have the schedule of the PIR...... Well the point I'm so glad I'm been keeping everything together in that way one day when he get married he can show to his kids what grandma did. Also I know that even that he don't said anything (boys) he is happy that I'm doing this. I know because he bought for me (he paid for it) the big package at BC. Then in Groton he bought two pictures (one for me, one for grandma) and his class picture and he told me one day when he call "Mom I know you like pictures so I bought the pictures for you". I love that boy he knows mom.
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