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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
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Roll Call: Name your sailor's sub!
Submarine moms are special:
--- All of us have boys, "SAILORS!"
--- Who serve on "boats,"
--- With whereabouts unknown, and
--- We only get sporadic, short emails while they're out!
Tell us where your sailor serves...
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My son is the A-Nav on the Rhode Island stationed in Kings Bay, Georgia. He was on the Tennessee previously (also in Kings Bay). Prior to getting into the boomers, he spent a number of years in Norfolk on the USS Norfolk SSN714. Since he has gotten older (and me too!) I don't keep track of the boat numbers anymore. Somehow you never forget the number on the first one though! My son has been in the Navy since 1994. I am very proud of his accomplishments. He is getting ready to start shore duty - a position with squadron. It will be nice for his kids ( ages 8 and 3) who miss their daddy a lot.
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Hey Joni! We just learned that our son has been assigned to the Rhode Island. He has just left Groton and is on his way home for a couple of weeks before moving to Kings Bay. How long are they usually out? I hear that we don't hear from them the whole time. That is really scary to me. I am praying we have no family emergencies while he is underway. Do you know how long it will be once he reports there before actually sailing? Do these sailors have homecoming like the guys on the ships? Where is your son from?
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We live in kingsland, ga which is only a few miles from the Navy base... my son was on the Rhode Island and also the West Virginia.. Please feel free to have your son contact me or if there is anything we can do to help /make him feel at home.
My son,Chad, is now a Warrant Officer on the UsS Nimitz in San Diego. but loved submarine duty..
they can be out for sometimes 3-6 mos.. hard to know their schedule but they are never allowed to say where they are going and when they will be back.. it is hard for families but they are top security and you just have to get used to it.. my son had been in submarine duty for 19 yrs. .. yes they have homecomings. where do you live , Wanda?
is he married? Kings Bay is a very nice base.. and only 17 miles from Jacksonville , Fl and beaches.. hot and humid in the summer but very nice in the winter... we moved here from Mn. and really like it..
good luck and please feel free in keeping in touch
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Nice to meet you. My son is also on the Rhode Island (blue) He is an ET NUke. His name is Alex. He has done well. He has been on the Rhode Island 2yrs. We of course are very proud of him.
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I have pics of the USS NH coming to port in Groton. if anyone has sons on it =]] I don't know if it was coming home from being out for a while or what the deal was but I got pics anyways. it was pretty coool I was visiting my hubby we were checkin out the Nautillus and then they said over the speakers that the USS NH was coming to port so I got a bunch of pics. its pretty cool to see all the submariners on top of the sub as its crusin by. lol
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Permalink Reply by Pat on
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USS NH was officially launched from Portsmouth over this past weekend...Your photos are historic, they were probably coming in from sea trials.
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Hi.Girls. My name is Jane. My sailor is Joseph. He is on the USS Norfolk.
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Hi hjlew and Jane ~~
I know these are old posts, however, my son is on the SSN714 Norfolk as well. Let me know if you all are still associated on it with your loved ones! I am looking for more communcation. I have found no website.
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My son is on the USS Bremerton. A fast attack currently underway. They left in June will be home sometime in January. Needless to say we miss him, at least his voice anyway. Pearl Harbor is a long way from the grasslands of South Dakota but sure would love to hear his voice long about now.
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Any other Bremerton family out there. Or how about Pearl Harbor? Want to go visist son any suggestions on how to find cheap travel? Can we stay in visiting family housing or is it just for officers family?
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USS San Francisco. It's still in dry dock in Bremerton, WA My son expects to go to San Diego in a few months...Groton first for 3 months. Has finished Nuc Power school in Charleston and is now in Prototype. I
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