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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. 

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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 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

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New Sailor here to help answer any questions you may have

Hi i'm Nick and i am a US Sailor in school right now and i wanted to join to help answer any questions you may have so ask away.

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Hey shipmate... which school, where?    Just because every training command is a bit different, heck, it varies from one A school to another.  Would be good to be specific, so you're not getting a ton of questions for places you ain't.

im in ctr school in pensacola, fl, right now. i was open to any questions about boot camp or life after boot camp to help these family members out

Great!  

And I know there's a few folks here who could answer your questions too...   

Nick, 

I have another CTR (ctraggie) passing info to the deppers that are about to go to boot camp.  He was on Ship 12, division 219.  Can you join him so we can get two recent sailors points of view?

NavyDep.com

http://www.navydep.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2799

i'd love to help just let me know what you'd like me to do. i can also provide a little more insight about A school as well since ive been here awhile

Hey nikoletar,

Could you please review the Survival Guide and let us know how we can improve it?

Survival Guide for Navy For Moms Newbie

Thanks.

i would recommend putting perhaps a brief overview of what their recruits will do at boot camp to help ease their minds a little, maybe something about the phone calls they will make as well.

Good idea. I'll talk to some of the other moms and come up with something. We have an entire discussion on that, maybe I'll link to it.

I have a question, I have read the boot camp day by day on the meps & dep group and he talks about the days being 1-5 but what about Saturday and Sunday? If my son gets there on Wednesday evening what days will be his P1-5? Wed - Sunday? Then Week 1 starts on Monday?

weekends do not count. his P-1 will be thursday, P-2 friday, P-3 monday, P-4 tuesday, P-5 wednesday, and then it will be 1-1 thursday and so on.

so what do they do that first weekend? and on other weekends?

What does P-1 stand for?

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