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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)

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Help please!

My baby is graduating on May 29,2015 from his Basic Training, and i will be out of the country. Any parents from Houston, TX that will be traveling? Please inbox me with the info.

God bless!

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Comment by Leach73 on April 24, 2015 at 4:21pm: MissZee
So sorry you won't be able to be at PIR for your son. Hopefully someone from your area can do you the favor of taking that picture for you.
However, for security reasons, OPSEC and PERSEC, SR's names should not be posted on this site. You may have to remove your post to protect your son's identity.

If you haven't joined the group for his graduation date, do so and befriend some folks on there and then thru private messaging, perhaps you can arrange for someone to take pictures for you.

Take care!

Comment by Leach73 on April 24, 2015 at 4:24pm: http://navyformoms.com/forum/topics/navy-for-moms-n4m-community

For reference.

Comment by Hello2u on April 28, 2015 at 12:20am: maybe relatives can go for you?

Comment by MissZee on April 28, 2015 at 8:29am: Unfortunately, no family. Thank you for your comment.

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Comment by Leach73 on April 28, 2015 at 9:18am: Make sure to tell your son in a letter when you write to him to buy the DVD of the PIR (graduation). You will get the DVD in the mail about 6 to 8 weeks after graduation but it is worth the wait! Also, all SRs get their pictures taken and will purchase them as well. ONe more thing, if another sailor "adopts" your son on the day of graduation, I am pretty sure they will have their cell phones and will do the favor to take a picture and send it to you. Make sure to join your son's PIR group so that you can reach out to other families and find out if anyone is from where you are. OHHH!!! and one more thing...lol!!! You can watch the livestream of the PIR...so wherever you are in the world, just log on and click on the link to watch it live!!

hope all of this helps!
Take care.

Comment by Leach73 on April 28, 2015 at 9:21am: join the Boot Camp Moms group.

Here is the link for your PIR group
PIR: 05/29/2015 TG 29 - 11 Divisions (187-196 and 929) 4 guests

Comment by Leach73 on April 28, 2015 at 9:21am: oops! sorry if the link doesn't work but you can find it by doing a search or once you are in the Boot Camp MOms group, lemonelephant has a post where it lists all the PIR groups.