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If your child is having a hard time with the pfa's or anything of that nature i would love to chat. My son is also in RCU so if anyone would like to talk about that we can

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Comment by Parrothdgal on July 27, 2011 at 7:59pm: HM... She wil pass and you can make plans to see her when she gets off base liberty @ A school! What is her rate?

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on July 27, 2011 at 3:12pm: HM, I am sorry that your Sailor didn't pass this time around. My son was put on limited light duty too due to horrible blisters on his feet and upper respiratory problems too. This happened to my son in week 4 of boot so he had time to catch up. Sounds like your daughter just needs time to catch up like my son did. My son was 20 to 30 seconds behind when he failed his 2nd PFA. A minute is not too far to catch up. They will work with her and she will make it. They don't want to send someone home who is really busting their @$$ to pass. Especially since they have spent $100,000 dollars on their training.

Hang in there. I will pray extra hard for your daughter.

Comment by keger2001 on July 27, 2011 at 2:39pm: HM, sorry to hear that your daughter will not make it PIR, we will keep praying for her to make it through the run and Battle Stations and get to A school. Where is she going to A school?

Comment by HM__Mom Ruth on July 27, 2011 at 2:16pm: Thanks, everyone. I did get a very nice person at POA that didn't give me any problems. My daughter failed the PFA by more than one minute yesterday, and so aIthough she has another chance tomorrow, I am cancelling my plans to go to Chicago for PIR.

She will get through it, she just had too many setbacks, with tendonitis that put her on LLD for over a week and a respiratory infection. As I told her the important thing is that she gets through bootcamp and works hard at A school.

Comment by keger2001 on July 27, 2011 at 1:01pm: HM, lots of prayers for your daughter!!!

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on July 27, 2011 at 12:55pm: HM, we are praying for your daughter:)

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on July 27, 2011 at 12:51pm: HM, I would call POA this afternoon to find out if she passed her PFA. Tell them that you need to know because you have tickets and can't afford to waste them. You don't need to worry about putting pressure on your daughter. She knows what she has to do and she will make it happen.

As diannep said: she will pass Battle Stations so that is not a worry for you.

I have faith that your daughter will pass. She has come too far to give up.

Comment by diannep on July 27, 2011 at 12:23pm: HM: From what I know, they should know this afternoon if she passed her run this morning. If not, then she won't be able to run again until Friday, I don't believe. That would mean...no PIR. I agree with the girls here...if she passes that run, get on that train because she will pass BattleStations! Now...she could be in the balcony on Friday if she has to do BattleStations on Thurs night. She will be in uniform, a sailor...just too tired to march. I can't get confirmation that the 800 group from PIR 8/5 is doing theirs tonight. Strange that they would be starting on Wed and not Thurs night.

Prayed for your daughter this morning...hoping for some good news today!

Comment by HM__Mom Ruth on July 27, 2011 at 9:37am: Thanks, Parrothdgal. Part of my issue is that I am taking the train to Chicago and it leaves at 8:00 this evening. I live 1 1/2 hours away from the train station (I'm about as rural as it gets). I really need to know this afternoon whether to go or not. I don't want to put heat on her, but I don't want to go all the way to Chicago if she isn't going through PIR.

Comment by Parrothdgal on July 27, 2011 at 8:30am: She can still go to PIR as long as she passes the run in time to do BS with another DIV. Some do BS as late as the night before! I would not keep calling however. She could feel the heat from that. If you have travel plans then you should call just before you leave no sooner. Know that the goal of FIT is to make them want to get the heck out of there! A lot of SR's end up in FIT for one reason or another but mostly do to a health issue in BC that slowed them up a bit. She will have someone runing wioth her to help her pass. You have my prayers and the prayers of everyone here!