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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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2011 Holiday Standdown is official
http://www.cnrc.navy.mil/publications/NOTICES/1050%20Holiday%20Leav...
Basically what this means is that what I speculated earlier is confirmed. NO recruits will be sent to Great Lakes between Dec. 15, 2011 and Jan. 3, 2012.
Any recruits who are scheduled to leave during those weeks will report to their recruiters to go to boot camp Dec. 13 -15, about half to two-thirds will be held for 1-2 weeks longer than usual before training begins.
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Permalink Reply by CUPCAKE on
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Arwen, what happens when the recruits are in basic?? What do they do during that time that they close??
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Permalink Reply by Arwen on
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It is MEPS and A-schools that close, not boot camp.
For those who begin training by Dec. 16, training continues chugging along as usual. They get half-day schedules for Christmas and New Year, but otherwise there is nothing they can see that indicates anything is different.
Those who arrive the week of Dec. 12-14, half of them will simply go through their five P-days as usual, and begin training the week of Dec. 19.
But the other half will go into "holding" - essentially they will get an additional five to ten P-days and begin training the week of Dec. 26. (Remember, weekends don't count.)
The extra P-days are busy, and they get ahead on basic military training. They will get their uniforms, learn to fold them (The Navy Way™), iron (The Navy Way™), make their racks aka beds (The Navy Way™), march, stand watch, and more. By the time they start official classroom training (Day 1-1) these recruits already have the basic military stuff down pat and have settled into their new routine. Their classroom and activity performance is at a much higher level than non-holiday groups. Nearly every division in the group earns honors, instead of 2-3 in "normal" PIR groups.
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okay another question, so if i go to boot camp on December 6th. Do i get another week of boot camp or is it the full 8 weeks?? I'm just curious how it works when i'm in boot camp. Thanks for the info
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With an arrival date of Dec. 6, you should not be affected by the holiday schedule. Your official first day of training will probably be on Dec. 13-14. Ish.
Most recruits have 5 processing days (P-days) and 40 official training days. Some recruits may have as few as 3 P-days. Weekends and holidays do not count toward training days. So, depending on the day of the week, and how many holidays there are while you are in boot camp, most recruits spend 9 weeks in boot camp.
You may actually PIR before completing your 40 days, in which case you will have a few days of boot camp remaining after PIR. My son PIR'd on the 19th of Feb, 2010, but didn't actually finish his final training days and get his orders until the 25th.
If you get a PUSH division you may finish boot camp in as few as 7 weeks. They're rare, and no one is quite sure how they are chosen, but it does seem to have some relationship to having ALL recruits already able to pass the PT test and the swim test, plus high test scores. They do all of the training in a compressed timeframe. I've only seen a few PUSH divisions in my two-plus years here.
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