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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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Events
**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.
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
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.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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Off to BootCamp she goes!
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Permalink Reply by Aaron's mom on
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Awww... best wishes to you on YOUR journey. It is tough to let them go. Now that my boy is set for PIR this Friday, I can admit, it wasn't so bad. I have cried and missed him. I worried, especially when the first couple of letters came where he told me how much he disliked it. Yet, I have witnessed through our communications a change. He told me last Saturday that he knows he has changed. He is proud of what he has accomplished. That makes all of the tears and heartache worth it. Hang in there, momma. It will go by slowly at first, then lightning speed at the end.
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Permalink Reply by GirlsGoneNavy on
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Thank you for your kind words, I just wish I could turn off the tear machine! It's hard to keep the makeup on my face! What is PIR?
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Permalink Reply by Craig on
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NatashasMom - Go to the "New Moms Stop Here" section. They have absolutely everything you need to know about boot camp. http://www.navyformoms.com/group/newmomsstophere
btw: PIR is "Pass In Review", which civilians call Graduation.
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Permalink Reply by Paula S. on
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Hell, I wanted to go WITH my daughter... only because one of the two recruiters who was escorting her made Tom Cruise look like catfood!! Busy yourself with purchasing as much "Navy Mom" stuff as you can get your hands on... lol. Good Luck... it does get better!
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Tom Cruise as cat foot? Wow, now I would like a picture of that recruiter! Maybe it might help :) !!
Thank you for your support, I would love any and all the advice I can get. I'm trying to keep focused and busy and I also am trying to get in better shape that way maybe on one of her visits we can go jogging together (she loves to jog) I say that's why god made horses to ride :) but I want to do it for her to show her my support and my fat butt could use it to !! Thank you so much
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