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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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Maintenance?!!! What's up with that?!!!
Don't they know...we have moms waiting to post the good news about their Battle Station phone calls?!!! We have new moms that sons and daughters are just landing at boot camp?! We have new moms getting their first letters today?!! And we certainly have moms that are heading to PIR in just 48 hours and we need our fix of Navy for Moms!!!
Can't they do that like at 4 am or something...or wait...some of us are on line at 4 am!!!
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Permalink Reply by Brenda Sue on
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I just got back on Saturday night (ie Sunday morning) - can't get pictures on my page because I am still trying to catch up on all that went on here while I was gone!!! Computer at the hotel was STUPID!!! kept kicking me off!!!
Going to go show pictures now!!!
Had a great time - hotel right on the beach - got up and watched the sun rise one morning - it was awesome!!! Derek got to stay with me alot.
He was real quiet and did not want to do much.
Don't know yet what his next station will be - for my sake - I hope somewhere in the states - for his sake - he wants to go overseas!!
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Permalink Reply by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on
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these kids!!! Don't they know we want them close to home...well kinda of close!!! lol
I thought you were heading out this Wednesday, how was his graduation? A tad different than Great Lakes?!! I went to a few of my husbands' graduations and not quite the same as the big PIR but I know you enjoyed being there and spending some time with him.
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Yea - real different from Great Lakes - but nice anyway. We had juice and cookies afterward!! I was the ONLY mom there!! There was also an uncle and a grandmother. That was all for eleven sailors.
Derek did not want to do anything Navy related while off base. That cut out a lot of sight seeing in Norfold and Virginia Beach.
He does not seem the same kid. He is so quiet and withdrawn now. I thought I could get him to talk when it was just me and him, but nope!! -
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Permalink Reply by Navy for Moms Admin on
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lol. I know.
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He just finished a really intense school, he's okay and probably just appreciated have you there and some downtime.
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Thanks - I REALLY needed to hear that!! I get soooo worried and depressed about him. I hope he is happy with his decision to join the Navy. I really don't want him to spend the next five years cleaning heads and mopping floors.
He wanted to be a SEAL - but decided that he did not want to do Navy for 20 years. He still wants to have the exciting training that the SEAL guys get to have, though.
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Permalink Reply by Molly Molly Fo Folly on
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Oh Brenda I thought you went last week ( told you Mary na na na )
I think that they are calmer because all the training they do, they want them to be calm,cool and collected.
I noticed my son at PIR was not the same animated way he used to be. And at first it bothered me a little then I realized that he was not sad ......just not loud.
I am postive he is not going to be cleaning heads, mopping floors for the navy.......... they do not send you to A school for that !
And he graduated A school :) So no latrene duty for him :)
he will have his own exciting time........ just different then the SEALS do it.
Most likely he was just overwhelmed with all that he has just been threw the last months and months. :)
Glad to have you back, you were missed :)
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Thanks - he did say that the training and classes were pretty hard. I know that he had to do some classes on the computer. Derek is pretty smart. After his ASFAB, they tried to get him to go to Nuke, but at that time he wanted to be a SEAL.
He is now a MA - they are also the ones who stand at the gates and check ID's. I think Derek would crawl in a hole and die if he had to do that all day. He joined the Navy for excitement! I hope for his sake he finds it. For my sake, I want him home checking ID's.
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He is an MAA ?
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I understand that an MAA and a MA is the same thing - I guess I am not sure the difference.
He is a Master at Arms - he has a badge that looks like a police badge.
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Did you know there is an MAA moms group here ?
Also I have a link to what the rate MAA does...well it is a link to what all the enlisted rates do. Like they say knowledge is power :)
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/enlistedjob1/a/navyjobs.htm
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I was off most of the day. So you guys were having the DT's Huh????
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