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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 Paula (was Capricorna) on
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Dear Lovemynavyson ~ Did you attend the Meet & Greet at the Ramada Inn on Thursday night?
I'm glad you eventually found this discussion group after all. Better late than never! I don't think many moms follow this now that PIR is over. There were quite a few from Division 933 that went to Pensacola - my son is there and I have his address. It is wonderful to be able to telephone or text him.
It's funny, our sons all know each other by last name, and we all know each other by screen name (or maybe first name), so it is hard to figure out who is who. There is one mom on here who I exchanged emails with. We became friends and then at PIR, we found out that our sons were friends. Quite a coincidence.
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Permalink Reply by Lovemynavyson (Ship02/DIV933) on
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Hi Paula,
I think we may have meet...I remember a mom telling me about email with another mom and then making a phone call that 'she had found the other mom's son'...Is that you???
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Yes - that's me. Were you the family at the airport trying to find out how to get a gate pass?
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YEP! I though maybe this was you! Thank you so so much! It was because of you that I checked this site out! Thanks a BUNCH!
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I have pix of the Meet & Greet!
They're on my sister's camera and I will post some of them tonite.
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Permalink Reply by zbmom on
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Paula, I really enjoyed meeting you and all of the other moms at M & G. The whole weekend was wonderful. I would love to see the pictures. Please keep in touch.
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Hi All,
I am so disapointed that we missed the Meet & Greet. We ended up in Milwaukee on Thursday as my husband wanted to see the Harley Davidson museum. :( PIR was awesome!!! Our sailor was right up under the clock tower blowing the boatswains mate's whistle!!! I am so glad I brought my camcorder with a terrific zoom! It was a little hard to hold the camera still when we were standing but awesome none the less. We were able to spend about 5 hours at O'Hare before Will shipped out to SC. We got home in the wee hours of this morning. The celebration on 4th was spectacular! I sure wish I could have met you all! Cindy
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Hi cjesm,
I agree, PIR was awesome....I wish I had meet more families beforehand too.
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Cindy: We missed you at the Meet & Greet. It was really great fun - there must have been 75-100 people there! Will did a FANTASTIC job of botswains mate's whistle!!!! I told my sister that I knew the mom of that guy [smile]. You should put your video up on You Tube!
I spent a couple of hours with my son at Midway, but he wanted to go find a place to sleep (he never did sleep), and I left him there with a 14 hour wait for his flight to Pensacola. It is wonderful to now be able to telephone and text - what freedom! I thought PIR was great (but I froze!) I'm so glad boot camp is over!
Take care,
paula
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Permalink Reply by annev on
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Cindy, My son was up under the clock tower - right beside the door as a sideboy! Did you see the pictures that Naval Stations Great Lakes put up on facebook? (Not the Recruit Training Command, but Naval Stations photo album "Naval Station Great Lakes Centennial, July 1, 2001" - there are close ups of the "top brass" coming out and our guys saluting them. It must be your son just to the right of each one. Let me know if you can't find them - I have downloaded them, since we couldn't get any pictures that close, even with our good lens!
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YES! Even though Will's back is to the camera, I know it is him. Did you know your son would be up there before the ceremony? I was soooo excited when I could zoom in and actually see my son's face. When they were marching down the "avenue" way before the PIR started, our sons' division stopped right in front of me. According to Will (later) he heard me "squeal". His eyes flicked for a half second on my sister and me and we saw just a hint of a smile before eyes front and they marched ahead. It was so thrilling (to my sis and me) to know that he saw us and that even in the Navy, I can still embarass my boy. lol
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