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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.
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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Hi Sherri! - my son will turn 19 while there. Can't wait to go visit soon, he is waiting to class up he said and we hope that will be soon. He has only 6 week school, but who knows when that will start?!!? lol - he is very happy there so far but I think that is a given being out of BC right?!?! :-)
Kimstn
Kimstn--my son is in P-cola now...been there since Sept of last year, will leave in July and just found out he will be in San Diego on a destroyer. THey have liked P-cola, (him and his wife, they were married in Aug and she moved in Oct once he got the ok to live off base)...
Hey Everyone - 2 days post graduation; he is settled in Pensacola and headed to beach today he said. Rainy and miserable here in middle TN - at least he is getting a little R&R after 9 weeks in GL! :-)
Happy Mother's Day to all of you!!!
Kimstn
GwenB,
Thank you! The site is a little overwhelming for me. I didn't get on the site until last week and was so overwhelmed with emotion when reading other posts...I wish I had joined earlier but I will have to do some catching up!
I am concerned about getting a gate pass. Where or who supply this? Did my son forget to give me this information or am I to find it somewhere?
I also read we will need binoculars and we will be sitting on metal bleachers (and it will be cold.) I have a 2 1/2 year old that I'm worried won't sit still so this could prove to be quite stressful...I'm hoping for the best!
Meanwhile, I hear there is a meet and greet (actually more than one) and others will be wearing colors, bracelets or something to identify themselves. I'm really late on all this. But, do you know how everyone is identifying themselves?
Thanks so much!
Anna
Congrats Kim I know how excited you are. I pick my Sailor up at 3:15 today. He's only home for a few days then soon Deploys to Japan, and I thought Washington State was far.
No party for my sailor, I want to keep him secret so I can have him all to myself. LOL He's probably already told everyone.
Happy Thursday everyone, hold your hats on it looks like more stroms today!
My daughter is now a sailor in the US Navy!
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