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All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018. 

Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

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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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Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

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For all those new moms of sailors, if you went to the meet and greet, can you tell us what it was like,what did you do? do you recommend going?,

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We went to Sarge's at the Sundance. The entire place was ours. Food was set up in the front. More then enough room for everyone.Awesome way to meet Mom's and families you have spent the past 8 weeks growing and getting used to Navy life with. Sarge is a wealth of knowledge. We used his parking tip, having my Mom with us and her walker, she actually didn't need walker, it was such a short walk. Listen to him when he says don't overbook those few hours you have your Sailor. Sarge pays for the food himself out of pocket. It's important for him to have an accurate head count so he can order accordingly. Our group of Mom's have wished a couple times we could go back and sit in the Sundance a few times since our May 25th PIR. 

We arrived at Sarge's Meet N Greet early and there were not a lot of people there. There is a free food buffet - as i recall it was spaghetti & meatballs and fruit. There is a bar and big dance floor, but no one was dancing. People were ordering drinks.

Some of the Moms had made scarves with different colors designated for the various divisions so that we could identify each other from our communications on this website (it was cold in March). We met up with those moms and chatted, took pictures. As I recall, Sarge's presentation and question and answer was in the second hour. I did not stay for it because I wanted to go to the Ramada Meet N Greet, but it was basically over when I arrived - so I recommend staying for the Q & A.

kristy - Meet and Great with Sarge is great!  He is very knowledgeable and he provides plenty of food (it's free and delicious).

He is really a nice guy and a wealth of information.  Highly recommend it!

Sarge had pasta meatballs fried chicken salads fruit, etc.

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