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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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Permalink Reply by Lisa Ann on
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Hello everyone, I have been a member for awhile, however just noticed that I have not add ed my bio......Sorry :0(
My name is Lisa and my husband Christopher left for boot camp, in august, on his 27th Birthday. His PIR was October 17th and he is a FC currently stationed in GL. He has completed SCC, the 1st 1/2 of ATT and is currently on hold for a few days waiting to start A School. It has been a very interesting last few months, but I think we are adjusting to Military life pretty well. I have meet some pretty terrific women and will only miss them when my husband receives his new set of orders. I have not enjoyed Winter in GL :0)
We have 2 beautiful Daughters, Lillian is 9 and Samantha is 22 months. We are hoping that the Navy will provide us with a great life and we are looking forward to seeing where our future will lead us. -
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hi ladies my hubby just left for basic on 3/24 and will be graduating MAY 15th! he went in as an AECF and will be told before he graduates if he will get ET or FC. he is hoping for FC but we will see. i know his A school will be in GL and about a month after he graduates i will be moving up there! i can't wait!
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OK so Iam new to NFMs this week . My husband left for bootcamp right after labor day, He graduated from bootcamp on Halloween. I was lucky enough to get to go and see him. We moved to GL with him on New Year's Day and he is a bout a week and a half into his A school right now and so far he is testing very well. I am so proud of him for making this change a little later in life than most the other recruits. My husband is 28 i am 25 and we have been together for 6 years and married for 4 come august. We have a daughter, Lily who will be 2 on july 1. After I lost my job last year and my husband got increasingly disappointed and tired with his jobs we made the monumental decision to join. I am so happy to see how proud of himself my husband is and how he has a lot of ambition and drive to succeed in the navy.
We joined because of the benefits and job security but I never thought of what it would do to my husband. When I saw him on graduation, he was so confident and sure of himself. It sounds corny but he looked like some kind of superhero to me, i was nervous around my own husband. After a couple hours I realized he was still the man i married but sometimes I still see that new super hero side of him come out and I am amazed. I love the navy for the gifts it has given my family and i hope that for the rest of our time in we get to give back something half as special as what we have already gained. -
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Permalink Reply by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on
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How touching Heather, I am sure he is a "superhero" I married my sailor 24 years ago and he is still a superhero to me. I think as a couple, you made a brave and good decision for him to join the Navy, there will be challenging days when he is deployed that you will growl and groin but I lived as a Navy wife for 10 years and had no regrets but we have life long friends and fabulous experiences as a result.
I'm sure I don't need to tell you to support him thru his school as performance is critical in school but I can tell...you will be a great Navy family! -
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Heather, Congratulations to You and your husband for joining the Navy, I was a Navy wife for many, many years. From your post I believe that together you two will do great in the Navy. You sound like a very supportive wife and that is what our Sailors need.
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Hello, my name is Camille. My husband left for boot camp on the 27th, He went in as AECF and is hoping for ET. We have 3 kids. 4 1/2, 3, and 7 weeks. We are hoping for San Diego for C school. Cross your fingers. I'm so glad I found this site. I was wondering is we should move out there for A school since it is over 6 months or just tough it out. I've heard the stuyding is pretty intense. I don't want to be a distraction, I just want him to finish so we can move to wherever he gets assigned and start this new amazing journey we have embarked on. Any info is much appreciated!
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Hi and welcome Camille - we have a few wives in the group with children as well. I know one of them has a son that will be starting kindergarden in the fall so she is hoping to settle in before school begins for her son.
One of the ET families can probably tell you better but it SEEMS that most of the ET "C" schools are in Virginia, it seems like they are in Norfolk and/or DamnNeck but until your hubby gets his orders no need to think about that.
With the holds that are currently in place - he could be at A school for quite sometime. Our son finished A school in December with no holds and it took about eight months --- some are saying it could be two years now! I'm not sure the Navy can afford to keep them in GL that long but AECF is one of the few groups that allows the family to move due to the length of schools. Personally if you have the opportunity to do so - I would and you just need to recognize that is school is critical to your future, lots of wives and children are there doing that now. -
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Camille,
There are LOTS of holds for ET right now. My son had his PIR in October last year, was on hold for a few weeks before he had his first school, the hold again before ATT the hold again before A school. He is finally scheduled to complete his A school for ET in August...then will be on hold until October. So he will be at Great Lakes for at least a year before he even starts C school. However, since the schools are self paced your husband may finish earlier. My other son is an ET also. He had PIR in December, graduated A school in April. His C school was in San Diego, he finished C school and was assigned to a ship in September. He did the whole thing in less than a year. But that was a couple of years ago. They may have changed things now especially where the C schools are. It may also depend on what type of ET he is. -
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