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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.

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My son left May2nd and its tearing my heart apart .

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Comment by Lisazship2DIV928 on May 7, 2013 at 10:13am
I'm sorry everyone says it get better but I'm in week four and still having a rough time of it but being on here really helps I hope you find a way to be comforted this is really a hard thing to go through but they are starting a future and that's a good thing we will make it just like our kids :) hope you feel better soon
Comment by Melissa Ann on May 7, 2013 at 10:31am

I do know that he is doing this to become a better person and that helps but the no contact is just horrible. I will continue to be strong and just hope all is well with him.

Comment by Sailor's Mom Joanne on May 7, 2013 at 6:53pm

My son left on May 2 also. I had a major breakdown when he got on that plane and it lasted until Sunday when a dear friend told me that I should march with my son and make him as proud of me as I am of him. This has been the most difficult thing I have had to deal with. I seriously wanted to chase him down and bring him home. But, this has been his dream and he has worked hard to get there. I don't like him being gone but I am trying to accept it and embrace it for him. I had a few good days and then today I received "The Box" and it all came back to me again. If not for N4M, I would have believed myself to be crazy. I now know that what I feel is natural and I have nothing to be ashamed of. God bless our sons and daughters who have chosen to serve in our military branches. God be with them!

Comment by hmr615 on May 8, 2013 at 10:15am
My son just left May 6th, when I got his last call I felt like they cut the umbilical cord all again. I know that this will be hard but it's time for our sons and daughters to spread their wings and truly find out who they are. I think the Navy will do this for them. Keep your head up and stay positive they need us to be strong for them! God bless.
Comment by TJCsMom on May 8, 2013 at 3:36pm

Hi ladies! My son graduated BC on 4/19/13. So, the feelings you are feeling, I have very recently felt, too. They are still very fresh for me and sometimes, when I'm reading some of the posts on BC for Moms, I cry for you!! I'm just going to be straight-up with you all. BC is the hardest thing I've ever endured in my life!! But, it does get better....not totally 100% better...but better. You will start to be able to focus on life going on around you after you get your box, form letter and your 1st phone call. The week I arrived home from PIR, I realized that I was finally relaxed for the first time in many weeks. I was a ball of emotion and nerves for the entire 8 weeks he was gone. I cried at the drop of a hat, I snapped coworkers heads off, I shut myself up in my house on weekends and avoided friends and stayed on N4M the entire weekend!! Very few people in my life understood what I was going through and even fewer tried to understand. I felt alone in the process (I am a single mom and have been for the last 17 years and my Sailor is my baby) and I lived for any contact with my son, or anyone else's SR, for that matter. My advice to you all, connect with as many moms in your SR's TG and preferably Division. When the Div Discussion Groups go up, join them. Check Facebook for a PIR Group for your SRs PIR date. Bond with as many of those people as you can. Sometimes, someone will get news from their SR when you haven't heard anything, and vice versa, and you can keep each other up-to-date. Let your SRs know whose moms you have connected with on here. That way, they can pass info through each other, to you. I guess, my point to you all is this....don't be so hard on yourselves for feeling what you are feeling. We are MOMS!! God made us this way!! He gave us an intuition about our kids and emotion so that we could feel for them and care for them. Don't expect yourself to bounce right back out of this. Don't let anyone tell you that you should. Feel what you feel and know that it really will get easier...it won't go away, but it will get easier. Hang in there, Moms...and buckle up!!! :)

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