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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.

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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 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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Leaving for Bootcamp on Oct 4th 2011

My son leaves for bootcamp on Oct 4th! Less than a month away. He has been on the DEP program for several months so he is ready to go but I am dreading the day he leaves. Are there any other moms out there who's child leaves on the 4th?

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Permalink Reply by sdees3 on October 5, 2011 at 4:29pm

We just got home from seeing our son off to boot camp. We were the only parents at the airport waiting with him until h left. He was with a group of 10 others. I don't think the parents knew they could go to the airport. Our airport has security just outside the plane gate so we could be with him almost until he boarded.

 

 

Permalink Reply by danor98 on October 5, 2011 at 6:57pm

We just returned also. Our son was driven to Nashville MEPS by our local (huntsville, AL) recruiting office. We had dinner with him last night.

We arrived at MEPS this morning around  9:30.  Our son was already texting us to find out where we were. We sat and talked with him till they were called back. He came and got us when they were about to be sworn in. They let us stand anywhere to take pics. All the parents were awesome and no one was standing in front of anyone else.

After swearing in, they(I don't know the proper term) got lunch. We sat around with our son until about 11:45. They were due to get on the bus aprox. 12:45. Our son really wanted us to leave and absolutely did not want us to meet up with him at the airport.

He did call us when they boarded their plane. Just waiting for the "I'm here" phone call.

 

Thanks for all the support!

Permalink Reply by sdees3 on October 5, 2011 at 7:21pm

Our son insisted we go to the airport - although we had his girlfriend with us so that may have been the difference. He called when he got to O'Hare and said he made it and would call when he gets to RTC. The MEPS experience for us was awesome but a lot of waiting. Our recruiter told us to be there by 8:30 so we were. Good luck to your son.Can't wait til graduation!

Permalink Reply by AmyS on October 7, 2011 at 6:42pm
There were 15 being sworn in when we went, 11 of the them shipping out and 4 National Gaurd.  Of the 8 parents/friends there, 4 were for our son.  I was thinking today I wish I would have thought to offer to take pictures for those that weren't able to have someone there and I could have emailed them for them; hindsight as always.  Our son did not want us with him at the airport either.  Three of the 'Shippers' sworn in were going to Great Lakes, so that made me feel much better as he's never navigated an airport before.  The flight didn't bother him and we got our call at 7:35pm, much earlier than I had expected. 
Permalink Reply by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on October 6, 2011 at 5:28pm
The 11/23 PIR group will be up TODAY. I will post the link as soon as it is up. Sorry for the delay.

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