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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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Permalink Reply by NavyMomma89 on
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Hi Dawn, Since we live in TX, I'm thinking it may be tomorrow until we get a letter, but the mail doesn't come here until anywhere between 2-4 p.m. so we'll see. How do we communicate "privately"? I'm not sure how to do that.
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Permalink Reply by momof5~(1CorpMen1Undesignated) on
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I will friend request you :)
dawn in MI
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Permalink Reply by CeliaSews on
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I didn't get a letter today...but I'm sure it will come tomorrow! And I agree with you, Dawn in MI, this is getting exciting. Our sons are good friends!
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ok no letter today from my son in Div 019 so i am reallllllly hoping tomorrow I get something !
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No letter today for us. Hopefully it will make its way down here by tomorrow! :)
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Hi Angela, That is so great that you received a packet of letters today. Our last name doesn't begin with either of those two letters though. We did receive our letter today. It was dated Nov. 1. However, it doesn't sound like he had received any of my letters when he wrote that, and it makes me sick to my stomach. I'm very upset that he apparently hadn't received any of my letters (like so many of us, I have been writing since Oct. 25 every day). I think I'll go to the PIR 12/16 blog and see what the veteran moms have to say about the structure of receiving and mailing letters, etc. My son also said it is pretty tough. I'll send you a private message later, though, about the details.
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Angela - I think that SR with the name beginning with D might be my son. I just sent you a friend request.
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Angela,
MY other son who is grad on 12/2 had a really tough time in the begining. His letters just broke my heart... He has social axiety and has never really stayed away from home, so I was shocked when he was joining the Navy but as the letters came his spirits have been lifted, his confidence boosted and I can read in his writing the change in him. I did get a call last Thursday, and he had some concerns about passing the weapons stuff but got a letter that said he practiced and passed on his first try! I was so proud...
My SR is the "G" one and he is really great at motivating, he was a certified personnel trainer in the real world. So with the support of his fellow recruits I am sure, as time goes by it will be easier for him. Until then, write him with encouraging words, funny stories :) that's what I did!
HUGS
dawn in MI
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Permalink Reply by Debbie G. on
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Hi, Angela - my last name begins with a "G" but my son's does not ...
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Permalink Reply by navymom12592 on
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My son's name starts with D. We're from Texas. He's the one that told me about N4M. Wonder if one of them was my son.
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Here is to our sons and daughters, Happy Veterans Day :) God bless em and keep em safe :)
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