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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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Deployment venting
We can handle quite a bit as Navy wives... but sometimes we need to pull our hair out and scream, "AAAAAARRRGGH!!!!"
This deployment has been a rough one. The deployment started early and is being extended.
During this time:
Both of our dogs of 10 years had terminal diseases and needed to be put to sleep only a month apart from one another.
A tornado, a hurricane, and and earthquake! (granted they were not very impressive and did little damage here, but the fact that they all happened amazes me)
The cats got sick... the kids got sick.... I got sick... (not necessarily in that order)
The car died... then died again.
I got locked out of the house by my toddler.
I made a major career change that made me choose between money and ethics.
I've wiped away way too many tears from my daughter's eyes.
But, alas, we're on the home stretch! Just a month or so to go and he should be back and I'll be able to go through the craziness that is life with my best friend by my side again.
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Permalink Reply by MrsS on
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Vent as much as you need to! Navy wives are a tough breed, at least I keep telling myself we are.
My favorite saying will always be, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Sounds like you will be quite a super hero.
-Marne'
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Permalink Reply by Jess_0411 on
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Haha do you live in Norfolk? I'm just guessing because of all the crazy weather that went on (:
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Permalink Reply by lalagoe on
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No, we're just outside DC... it was so weird. We had a tornado touch down on base in April (just some tree branches down) an earthquake, and hurricane Irene (it really slammed into the beach but we were inland enough to just get some tropical storm force winds) Very weird weather year.
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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So sorry about your dogs, that is hard under any circumstance!
I never figured out how mom did it with us kids, she didn't even drive. She was active in the wives clubs, and she sewed all my clothes, back when sewing was still something common. Dad was gone a lot with the squadron, this was back in the 60s when family support wasn't as firmly established.
I know how I did it, I was in the Navy myself, so I was kinda busy in another way, and in Japan, which is also distracting. Sure gets lonely though.
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Permalink Reply by Keisha on
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Is he back yet? Damn all that sounds crazy but u are strong. U survived it.
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Permalink Reply by Janae' *My Love is HOME :)* on
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I know how you feel... My husband and I are from the outskirts of DC and while he was on his 7 month deployment I stayed home... I was scared half to death with a tornado, hurricane, earthquake, and then that huge flood... I locked myself out of my car which my purse with the spare key was in and the house at the same time and there was no one home, so I have to find an in law to help me climb through a window... My husband's car died on me and was out of commission for about 5 of the 7 months he was gone and took entirely too much money to fix... I had to finish my fall semester and find us a place to live all before he returned home in December. It was very stressful, but all worth being with my husband in the end. I got through it and I know that you can too.
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