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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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sending photos to my son?
Quick question, am I allowed to send a few photos to my son with the letters I mail him?
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Comment by lemonelephant on July 9, 2013 at 12:20pm
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As Emma said, yes, you can as long as the photos are in good taste and I'm sure they will be. See Letter Writing & Fun Stuff/Questionnaires to send to your Recruit for more on what you can and cannot send.
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Comment by Holli on July 9, 2013 at 2:20pm
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thats great, I'll have to do that. Just curious, how many letters, notes etc does the average mom mail their son/daughter in boot camp. 1 a week? 5 a week? If it was up to me I could find something to mail everyday but I don't want him rolling his eyes at me, ha ha and think I was a crazy woman. Just wondering what the "norm" was.
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Comment by BunkerQB on July 9, 2013 at 4:18pm
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Getting your name called at bootcamp is like Christmas - the recruit live for the mail from home. Send as much as you want - no music cards, no perfumed envelopes, no candy, no colorful stuff. You get the idea. Plain white envelope standard size ...
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Before BC my now Sailor told me to only send one letter a week and later told me that he wished he had never said that. Write and mail a letter every day and have his family and friends write often as well. I kept blank cards with preaddressed and stamped envelopes on me and any time someone would mention writing him I would give them a card so they could write a quick note and then mail it.
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Comment by Cashwood24 on July 9, 2013 at 5:43pm
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I have been writing to my son almost everyday and i have sent lots of photos and i printed out articles from the news. When he called he said that he love receiving them. I also receive a stack of letters from him every Thursday.
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well just received our first letter today from Evan, his ship # has changed to 014 and his division is 307. on the form letter we received last week it stated ship # 013. the last 3 letters I mailed him had ship#013 on it. does anyone know if they will forward these to my son? I sure hope so. In the letter he wrote me, it stated he hasn't received any letters from me yet, man I sure hope they forward them to him. We didn't know his ship # was going to change.
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They are doing some renovations at the RTC so divisions sometimes get moved. Don’t worry the RMPO for the division and the mail room are aware of the move and any mail sent to the old address will be forwarded. Use the new address from now on. It is common for that first letter to say that he has not gotten any letters and most likely no one else has either because the first holiday routine (when they can write) often happens before the first mail call.
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thanks, that makes me feel better, I will be putting ship#014 on all my letters starting today, I just felt bad because he said, "make sure you write me mom" and I'm here thinking, I already wrote you 3 letters, and the poor kid doesn't even know that. so its good to know he will still get these letters.
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Ship 13 and Ship 14 do not have the same street address, be sure to make that change as well and let others know the new address. See http://bootcamp.navy.mil/contact_recruit.asp and/or Ship/Division--How it Works.
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