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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)
Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC
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Events
**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).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
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.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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- Graduation Info
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Awful hotel
Please do not stay at the America's Best Value Inn in Waukegan, Illinois. It was in the Navy brochure and only three miles or so from the Navy Recruit Base so we choose it.
We paid around $85 a night plus tax. Rooms were smelly, dirty and there was hair on the bathroom floors and toilets. There wasn't any soap in the bathrooms and the toilet paper was down to a few sheets.
You could hear the guests in the other rooms. We braved it for two nights and on the second night between 3:00 and 5:00 we could hear clearly "wild monkey dancing" in the room next to ours and tried to block out the sexual exploits of the people in the next room with pillows over our head.
We checked in then went to find dinner. When we came back I discovered that our street level windows were closed but unlocked. There weren't any screens. I know better and should have checked but, didn't think about it when we arrived. Fortunately, we didn't have to add a theft to our experience. Most lights did not function and most electrical outlets were broken.
Our stress level was heighten by missing our son, travel and the lack of sleep. I have traveled extensively throughout Latin America and have stayed in many tourist class hotels of third world countries with standards above and beyond this hotel. This hotel was a disgrace. Beware.
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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Please copy and paste that review into the discussion, Recommended Places to Stay, within PIR Reference Information because many of us send people there for info on hotels. Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Cody'sMomship13div412 on
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Thanks so much on the info on this hotel. I actually booked a room there. I'll be sure to cancel!
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Permalink Reply by jules112137 on
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Thanks for the info I was looking at this hotel, I had not heard any reviews so I was still holding out but I'm glad I come across this before I called tomorrow.
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