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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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Advice: What do I need to know?
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Permalink Reply by esther22ship02div932PIR7-1 on
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There's so much to learn!! Keep wandering through the different discussions on this site and you'll learn more. You probably won't get a letter until the 3rd week at least. Just remember, ALOT of people have made it through all this and you will too!!
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Permalink Reply by Ashley527 on
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Thanks(:
I`ve been looking through some of the discussions and learning a little bit more. It seems that there isn`t much of a consistancy with certain details, a lot is up in the air and unknown. I`m trying to find out as much as I can about this so I can better support him and understand what`s going on. I feel the more I find out and learn, the better I will be at dealing with it all. -
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Permalink Reply by Katie26 on
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Hello(:
My boyfriend has been in the Navy for almost 2 years. I came in blindsided. I never even knew anyone in the military to learn different things. I learned on the way and making a lot of mistakes. Bootcamp is hard but its not forever, just keep that in mind. He will write and the letters MAY not be "love" letters (maybe they will be) but they are teaching them to become detached. I didnt get a letter till about the 3rd week. and i believe i only got one every other week and i never got a call. Honestly, I am glad I didnt because his mom got a call and was a complete mess afterwards missing him more.
After bootcamp, the best advice i can give you is to somehow come to terms with being second. not to anyone else, but to the military. they "own" him. he IS governement property. they control where he goes, and what he does pretty much. It took me the longest time to deal with this. and to be honest i am still struggling. My sailor is deployed and i will be talking to him on fb and i dont understand why it takes him so long to answer and i get so mad at him. its simply becuse he was told to go do something and didnt even have time to say be right back. before deployment i would get angry if could only talk for 5 minutes because he was dead tired. You must find a way to cope with it. -
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