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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.
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Navy JROTC Moms
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For moms of current or past NJROTC members. They may not actually be in the Navy, but they wear the uniform and learn to walk the walk - and many of them will eventually join, either as commissioned officers, or enlisted.
Members: 19
Latest Activity: May 28, 2013
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Comment by Arwen on September 27, 2011 at 2:03am
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There are still a lot of people who are dead-set against having any kind of military presence in high schools, or working with youth in any way that may "indoctrinate" them. My mom is one of these people.
I asked my daughter's master chief if they might be getting digis as a work uniform. He said no, that the digi uniforms are too military, and might remind certain people that the NJROTC exists. Apparently the dressier uniforms (peanut butters, khakis, dress blues) are less "aggressive" and therefore less noticed by those who object.
There are places where JROTC was kicked out of the school because parents didn't want the military "in their schools, recruiting kids who aren't 18 yet." Apparently their "impressionable babies" aren't capable of thinking on their own.
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Comment by Pat on September 21, 2011 at 2:14pm
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It is amazing the programs and opportunities that are available to our youth...if only there was a way of reaching and informing the parents, so that the kids could be involved...so much better than them being on the streets...just too much junk available to them out in the real world!
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Ack, I just deleted my post by accident.
Okay, another try. Erin doesn't want to do drill, but she is very into the air rifle team thing. She's been doing archery for years, and there are enough similarities that she's having a pretty easy time with it.
We're still hopeless with the hair thing. It was one of the two things I always got dinged on when I was in the Navy. 23 years later and I'm still all thumbs when it comes to hair control.
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4 very active years while my son was in...still scoring drill meets for our local unit, five years later.
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Comment by Lori4629 on September 20, 2011 at 3:57pm
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@Arwen, how's your daughter doing with her hair? My answer to your question is: "Lots and lots of hair gel", and "pair up with another NJROTC cadet and do each other's hair". My son is on an extremely (nationally) competitive drill team. We have spent oodles of time traveling to meets and such with the team, but every year, when the whole battalion forms up for Annual Inspection, I am saddened by how little the rest of the battalion pays attention to their uniform regs. Kudos to your daughter for making the effort! There are lots of you-tube vidoes that demonstrate how to make a neat military bun.
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For information on Sea Cadets...see:
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Ugh, they issued uniforms today and didn't have the right size for Erin. They're going to have to special-order her shoes and blouse. I wish they could just send us to the nearest NEX rather than wait.
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For those of you unfamiliar with JROTC, these units are a part of high schools across the nation. It is a wonderful program for all grade levels of HS...teaches History, Leadership skills, PT. Student led.
ROTC is the college level program, again a part of universities across the nation.
Sea Cadets is another program in some cities. Much like JROTC, but not necessarily attached to a school. The unit in our area meets at the local base.
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Erin "inherited" a lot of stuff from her brother. He gave her his digi camo binder from A-school, the leather Navy emblem embroidered daytimer they gave him when he enlisted, and she has a ton of Navy shirts she got from him. She also has my old uniform coat (bridge coat) and other odd assorted Navy stuff, almost all of which you actually have to be in the Navy to get, and some really old (80s era) stuff, probably from when the chief was a recruit himself.
The chief in charge of her class keeps giving her funny looks when she wears/pulls out this gear. LOL.
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Friday the cadets wore unit shirts, sold as a fund raiser by the parent support group. I don't recommend purchasing anything ahead of time.
With only a son in the unit...hair wasn't an issue...a pair of clippers were purchased after the first $15 burr, that was a failure. I suggest that you find a hairdresser that is willing to teach you the basics or see if there is an older cadet in the unit that is willing to pass along the 'trade secrets' for tight buns.
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