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PIR 1/28/2011. Divisions 53-58, 910

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For everyone with a Recruit that has a PIR 1/28/2011 date! For Divisions 53-58, 910

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Latest Activity: May 14, 2012

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Comment by AlishaNicole SHP11DIV54 on December 12, 2010 at 8:27pm: 46 Days! HOOYAH!

Keep the faith, Ladies!

Comment by Lynne on December 12, 2010 at 7:53pm: Whew I feel so much better Denise...I would never want to hurt any one of you...I think I am going to take Jessica's grad and go questionaire and add a few questions to it and make the mom needs to know questionaire and add it to our stash...lol I think we need one serious one with vital information that they can just fill out...give me a day or two to think about it and put it together...

oh by the way I got my DVD on Thursday...almost exactly one month after PIR...and I cried all over again...it was awesome...

Kathy...I am going to make your question sort of part of the questionaire...my son ordered all the pictures and paid for them himself...I had told him get package A...because I read all about the pictures from a discussion Jessica put up for us and I knew I wanted lots of pictures. This included the DVD. I also wrote and told him to be sure and get the Keel. He took it upon himself to order several frames and they were beautiful...for those of you who have recruits in he 900 divisions they have 5 X7s that have the Navy Hymn on them and your sailor...they have some with the Navy prayer and they are beautiful...so even if your recruit orders your pictures stop in and look at the specialty frames...really they are less expensive than you would pay at home....the largest frames were 35.00. Plus they are so organized...they have a mailing room right there...it's boxed and read to mail...so you put the address on...pay the postage and walk out the door...lol...package free...lol

Most pictures that are paid for are delivered to your sailor prior to PIR...so you don't even have to stop and pick them up and some have them mailed directly home so you need to ask those questions of your recruit and I will try to put all that into a questionaire for you.

Comment by nicole~a sailors girl(: on December 12, 2010 at 6:52pm: After PIR. You won't be allowed to until after. Dress warm, you have to walk outside, and Great lakes is COLD.

Comment by Kathy Ship 11 Div 057 on December 12, 2010 at 6:15pm: when is it we are suppose to look at these pics and shirts ? after PIR? before? another day?

Comment by nicole~a sailors girl(: on December 12, 2010 at 4:21pm: bls - as far as pictures go, right next to the NEX, you can go into that building and get pictures and all of that, it USUALLY doesn't take long, stand outside and send your sailor in. It gets crowded because people just stand there and look at them, but lines usually don't take that long. send them in, they will retrieve what is theirs and get out!! Then you're on your way to a fun day with your Sailor:)

Comment by bls23ship 02 div 910 on December 12, 2010 at 3:41pm: the pictures you are talking about JessicaB this is the graduation pictures and dvd's. the recruits can purchase these ahead of time so we don't have to stand in line to order and pay for them? this would be great that way we can spend more timme with our kids.

Comment by AlishaNicole SHP11DIV54 on December 12, 2010 at 2:37pm: New group for ship11 div 054! PIR 1/28/2011...Come join us!

http://www.navyformoms.com/group/ship11div054pir1282011?xg_source=a...

Comment by KLP0824 on December 12, 2010 at 2:14pm: thanks lynne to you and your son

Comment by Denise on December 12, 2010 at 12:04pm: Lynn, thank you for all the info and support you have and continue to give to us. Don't worry about taking away my optomism...LOL...you don't have that power...not today anyway! I woke today in a great mood and with a happy heart, for the first time in three weeks. I am choosing to start each day now thinking, maybe today is the day that I will get a call or a letter. If it doesn't happen, I'll go to bed tonight with something to look forward to tomorrow. Because, maybe tomorrow will be the day! The power of positive thinking!

Comment by Lynne on December 12, 2010 at 11:34am: I'm sorry about your optimism...I didn't mean to take that away...I just feel bad when I get on here in the evening and the moms feel so bad because they waited all day for a call they thought they were going to get, hoped they were going to get, or thought they should get and then feel so bad when it doesn't come. That is all...I can assure you I am rooting for you to get that call and when you do I am doing the happy dance for you...I remember well how important those calls were and frankly still are. I look forward to every time my sailor calls home.

You probably didn't hear in other groups about names because it doesn't make so much difference there. This is an issue specific to boot camp. I will post my "rules for engagement" that talk about this in the discussion forum. In fact, I just added a "rule" the other day based on a story by a seasoned mom that never even crossed my mind. Your recruits want to fly under the radar, and we love the RDCs and if they want to check on us..then more power to them...but they will find that we may chit chat...but we try to do it without naming names. I will say that in comparison to the stories I heard in my own PIR group...I have heard many more in recent weeks of information being "shared' by RDCs that they learned on this site. We would never tell any of you anything to make your life difficult or to upset you or to bring you down...rather it is to protect your recruits and help you navigate what it takes to be a navy mom. I am still learning every day. I belong to an A-school group and they had to walk me through exactly what I needed to do as a parent to provide my sailor with the correct information for the leave request. I had terminology to learn, process to learn, etc.