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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)

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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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Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

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Whether you're the lowest enlisted rank, or a 4-Star General (or Admiral), all military personnel get the same amount of vacation time. Military members get 30 days of paid leave per year, earned at the rate of 2.5 days per month. Unlike civilian leave programs, however, military leave, taken over weekends and holidays count as "leave taken." For example, if you take leave, beginning on Monday for 12 days, until the following Friday after, the Saturday and Sunday in the middle is counted as leave.

According to military regulations, leave must start and end in the local area. That means, if you begin your leave on Monday, you cannot leave the local area until Monday, even if you are off-duty on Saturday and Sunday. Conversely, if you schedule your leave to end on a Friday, you must return to the local area on that Friday, even if you're not scheduled for work until the following Monday.

Normal leave is approved/disapproved by the member's immediate supervisor. Emergency leave (someone in your immediate family dies or is seriously ill), is approved by the commander or first sergeant, upon verification of the emergency (usually from the Red Cross). Emergency leave still counts against your authorized leave time (30 days per year). The commander is the approval authority if one must take more leave than they have currently earned. (Example, let's say you've been in the military for four months, and you've not taken any leave. You should have 10 days of leave "saved up" -- 2.5 days per month for four months. Assume your father gets very sick, and you need 15 days to go home and see him. You would be using five days you haven't earned yet, so the commander would have to approve it. When you returned, you would be five days "in the hole," so it would be two months before you have a "zero leave balance" and would begin earning leave again.

Except for emergency leave, and Christmas Exodus (discussed below), commanders are usually reluctant to approved leave that hasn't been earned yet. This is because, under the law, if a person is discharged (for any reason) and they have a negative leave balance, they must repay the military one day's base pay for each day they are "in the hole" as of the date of the discharge.

Leave is calculated according to the "fiscal year" (1 October to 30 September). One is allowed to "carry over" only a maximum of 60 days from fiscal year to fiscal year. (Note: Exceptions can be approved if one can show that they were denied leave due to military necessity for unusual situations, such as long-term deployments). In other words, if you have 65 days of leave on the books on 30 September, 5 of those days will be "lost" when the ca lander rolls over to 1 October. So, on 1 October, you will have 60 days "on the books."

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So many of us have been wondering when our sailors will get leave, is it after A school? Is it during the holidays? Do they have to pay for their travel on leave? Thought this information might be of some help to all.
The best advice my dad gave me when I joined the Navy was "Don't go in the hole on your leave." Once you do, you're always playing catch up and never seem to have enough leave time when you want it.

So Moms, even though you want to see your sailor right after boot camp or A school, think about what holidays or family events are down the road and when would be the optimum time to spend that leave.

You must pay for your own travel while on leave. The exception is (may have changed) if you are PCS overseas, you get one round trip back to the states each year. Anyone know if this is still valid?

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