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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
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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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I was stationed in Japan for 12 years, so I can tell you some of the nuts and bolts. I hope I can give you some information which will be helpful. You are in a tough spot, so I understand your anger. Hang in there.
1. E-3 and below cannot take a dependent to Japan.
2. He already has his orders, so even if you marry now, you will not be "command sponsored", which is required to get a resident visa, housing, and permission to have all the privileges of a US military dependent in Japan. His orders are unaccompanied, it will cost the Navy plenty of money to change that. You can get married and he can apply for you to join him, but those waivers are being denied more often than not.
3. You may visit him in Japan, expensive and difficult to plan around his ship's schedule. Well worth saving up for though. Get your passport now. Always good to have one anyway. Of course, you cannot go to Japan and just live there. They have immigration laws, just as we do, and it is crushingly expensive without the Navy's support. You can try to get a job teaching English, that's always a fascinating option. Be careful of scams.
4. He earns 30 days of leave each year. However, ships rarely grant that much time all at once, and rarely during good times which will fit your schedule. They normally get a week or two off all at once. Especially the new guys. It sucks, sorry.
When I married my husband, we were both active duty. He was on a ship out of Sasebo (southern Japan) and I was stationed at Yokosuka (near Tokyo, in the middle). He wasn't allowed to come up to see me without taking leave, and his ship rarely gave him any days at all because of Desert Shield. I couldn't go down there, I had rented a house where I was. We saw each other a total of 28 days in two years. It was hard, we didn't have the internet or cell phones then. But we made it. So I know it can be done.
I'd say finish school if you have the means. You can still get married if the two of you think that would be easier, even if you have to be apart. He'd get BAH for you in the states. Of course, don't mess up any of your scholarships.
A career as a military spouse is difficult. What field are you in, if I may ask? I finished one of my degrees at the University of Maryland University College. They offer a limited number of degrees overseas, on base, accelerated study.
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