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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC
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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
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The Box -- from my SR 3/10/15
SR arrived at BC on 3/5/15, had the quick call just before 11pm Chicago time. Received the box on 3/10/15. Here's a few words I blogged about to my family, with some of the most personal info thinned out...
My "kid-in-the-box" was delivered on March 10th. Well, it was delivered to my ex-husband. It was a bit of a struggle to get it from him, but I finally did on the 11th, thanks to my 18 yr old daughter reasoning with him.
So there it was. The box. When I opened the (already-opened) box, I explored its contents with longing, thinking it would give me some glimpse into how he's doing, what he's doing, how he's feeling, or how he was feeling at the time he packed his things in this highly anticipated box.
Quite uneventfully, it was just a near-empty cardboard cube of his stuff. That's it. The shirt, jeans, tennis shoes and hoodie jacket he had worn to MEPS, along with his small Navy backpack from signing day that contained his cell phone, charger, and Navy paperwork. (No undies--thank goodness-- and no socks--good riddance!--there was a giant hole in them anyway.) lol
It did smell like him though, when I opened it. Not a bad smell, not a good smell, just him. It made me miss him all over again, like this wave that keeps pouring over me. I am better at maintaining some semblance of control now though! None of that sobbing type cry, lol, just tears that sting the eyes and fail to flow out to the cheeks.
What was it about this "grand" box? It was certainly nothing special to look at... not to the naked eye. It was more about the feeling of the box, and what it represents. The meaning is drawn from the fact that it came from my son, who has now officially left the nest, and it was packed immediately upon his arrival into the next step--this new journey in his life--in the Navy.
Naturally, as an obsessive keepsake hoarding mom, and because I have no other way to feel close to him, I have taken a photo of "the box."
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