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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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Permalink Reply by JM-ISmomx2 on
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The Navy will issue all needed supplies. Both pads and tampons are available. They might not be what is prefered but at the most it is only for 2 cycles and then when they are done with boot camp your daughter will be free to purchase whatever her preference is. My daughter did start the day before she left, took her prefered supplies with her for the first cycle but then had to depend on what the BC had available. Hope this helps.
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Permalink Reply by dmarie on
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What your daughter might want to consider is using birth control pills to eliminate having her period during boot camp. I have seen the seasonique(?) ads that are designed to only give you four periods a year. I only offer this as an idea, she should obviously discuss this with a doctor.
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Permalink Reply by Fleur de lis Mom on
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My daughter has a "preferred brand" also. I just keep telling her it’s only for 8 weeks - just 2 cycles. I know when she get on a ship that I will be mailing her preferred brand to her!
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Thank you dmarie. She has just started birth control pills b/c of an excessively heavy cycle. Hopefully within a year it will be under control. I don't know the brand you suggested but it is worth a chat with her dr.
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Permalink Reply by Anna on
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When my daughter went to bc, she had one period and then they stopped. Sometimes when young ladies are under alot of stress their periods will cease for a time being. (This also happened to me in bc many years ago.) So she might not have anything to worry about. But if that's not the case for her like the others have said it's just for short term. Tell her not to stress on it too much because she will be in the same boat (sorry!!) with all the other girls and they will have many other bigger things to focus on. It will be over before she knows it.
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Yes, I am sure all the ladies will support eachother. I know she is tougher than she thinks, and keep telling her not to stress yet :)
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Permalink Reply by Mollie...Kelcies Mom on
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It's not only stress that stops the periods, it's all the physical activity. My daughter would only have periods every 3 or 4 months when she was very physically active, so I don't think she had to deal with more than one period while in boot camp, if even that.
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Permalink Reply by DC - G'mother of My Fav Sailor on
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Our granddaughter didn't complain about BC because as others have said, they are too busy to worry about it and all are in the same boat. But she recently went to Japan and the NEX doesn't carry her brand. That didn't make her too happy so I went out and bought a bunch. I was filling up one of those fixed-price, FPO boxes and the tampon boxes took too much room so I removed the box and just filled the box with tampons, along with other goodies. Of course she received the box at work and had removed the cookies because it was so hot in the shop. Some of the guys saw the opened box sitting there and grabbed it up, expecting to find goodies. They were quite surprised and embarrassed, to see what dumped out. She is the only female in her shop and they kept saying, "You're just a dude with long hair." V. says they are reluctantly realizing that this dude also bleeds once a month.
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he he - that's a cute story DC!! I bet those guys will think twice before just picking up a care package and being nosey!!! Did they at least get some goodies for all their embarrassment??
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I think so because she said that she had a lot of help with the cookies and energy bars.
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When my daughter as at Great Lakes in 2005, she says that she had to buy whatever products were available at the shopette, and recommended that your daughter bring her own feminine products with her as the selection was quite limited.
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Permalink Reply by Kathy-Tami's mom - San Antonio on
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My daughter was told by her recruiter to take 3 months supply of tampons with her, she took 3 boxes(a little much, but...), they sent 2 of the boxes back. She told me they all go into a common supply area, and you go get what you need, when you need it. So I plan on taking one of the boxes to PIR, and mailing the other to her.
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