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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
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
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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).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**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.
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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My heart is breaking
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Comment by Proud Mom on October 22, 2010 at 9:02am
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I have written two letters since then to him, telling him how proud we are of him. I keep telling him that we are fine and to just focus on what he needs to do. It is just so hard because I see him or talk to him yet. He is having a hard time with the swimming. But he thinks the food is AMAZING!! LOL!!!
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Comment by Alexs momma ( ship 03, Div 017) on October 22, 2010 at 12:46pm
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Proud Mom, I can completely relate to your feelings.My daughter wrote us a couple of lines in her forum letter and all she talked about was wanting to come home so bad. She stated she wants out and misses us so bad. Now our first reaction was to jump in the car, drive for 12 hours and pick her up take her home safe and sound. But we know we can't do that. I know it so heartbreaking to hear them so unhappy.If you ever need someone to talk to please do. i am going through exactly what your going through so i know how hard it can be.
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Alexsmomma, how long has your daughter been in bootcamp? What ship and division.
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Alex has been in basic training for 2 weeks now. She is in ship03 div 017. Everyone says its totallly normal for the kids to feel this way. But that still doesn't make me feel any better. I just pray that the kids can hang in there...and not be completely miserable the ENTIRE time they are away from us. What ship and division is your son inM has he been away from home before? Alex longest time away from home was about 6 days..but we still were able to talk on the phone and send text messages. If you want feel free to friend request me..if you need someone to talk to...the Lord knows I do. I have sooo many questions! Are you going to be able to attend your sons graduation?
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Comment by Dawn L. on October 22, 2010 at 6:42pm
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It will get better. I promise you that! When Ben was in BC and had his first phone call home, about a week after he got there he was crying on the phone and telling us that he was homesick. I didn't cry, just tried calming him down and letting him talk to us.It was heartbreaking, but I knew that I had to be strong for him. I wrote all the time. Sent pictures and gave everyone his address so he received a lot of mail. Hallmark has some great military cards. They are very encouraging for these tough times. By the time it's over, he'll love the Navy!!!! Ben is now at Fort Meade, MD studying mass communications at A-school. He said it is different than BC. You then get to have cell phones, computers, etc.. But you have to earn the right to have them.It all will get better!!!
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Comment by Yvonne on October 23, 2010 at 12:46pm
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It will get better! For both of you, promise! The first letter and phone call was all about how much he missed us, how home sick he was and how he was so surprised cause he just knew this was what he wanted.....to get out of town. Well, 7 weeks in boot camp his most recent letter says, "Hey mom, this isn't as bad as I thought, it's pretty easy actually! I still miss you tons but we will be good". I cannot wait to see him on Grad day and he says the same to me. He actually has prepared me, "Mom, I want to say ahead of time, when I see you at graduation you are going to see a Proud Graduated Sailor with TONS of tears!" LOL, I just love my son! This is the longest he has ever been away from me in 23 years. We all will get through it and what a wonderful opportunity for our children. Hang in there Proud Mom
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Comment by navy25 on October 23, 2010 at 7:01pm
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Hang in there Proud Mom my son just graduated 10/8 and he is older than most of the Sailors that were in his unit and still he did miss us and at times when he felt sad he got encouraged from our letters and thinking of how proud he was to serve especially when he would look at his tags that somehow gave him comfort. I actually took a beautiful foto of him holding his tags because they are so meaningful to him. The best is continue writting to him I found some encouraging phrases and I would write them in his letters and the worst of boot camp for us Moms is the not knowing what is going on in his life my sons unit was only allowed to make one call home in 7 weeks and that was tough but youll be surprise after the 4th week the rest come a bit faster.Tell him to hang in there from all of Us Navy Moms we love him and support him and it is the best decision he has made and it will get better Boot Camp is tough but he can do it.Tell him Who he is can make a difference. Let us know how he does and I wish him the very best especially for his final test Battle Station. If you want you can write down everything I just wrote and send it along with your letter that I send him Good wishes and prayers for Success.Maria Navy25
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Comment by BunkerQB on October 23, 2010 at 8:06pm
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When you run out of words to say try some of these. Paymaster posted "Inspiration ... Pearls of Wisdom" in the New Moms Stop Here Group.
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/newmomsstophere/forum/topics/inspr...
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Comment by RenoMom (Ship 03 Div 080) on October 27, 2010 at 4:07pm
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I want to cry just reading all of this. My son is leaving on 12/15/10 and those first 3 really hard weeks will be during the holidays!!
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