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Moms of IS (Intelligence Specialist) sailors.

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My son has found the perfect job for a teenager! When I ask him, "What are you doing?", he honestly tells me, "Sorry, Mom, I can't tell you."

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Latest Activity: May 17, 2023

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Comment by Anna on December 19, 2012 at 11:20pm: purplegiraffe,

Hubby and I attended C school graduation several years back. All info about time and place was given by our sailor. On the day of graduation we met at a pancake house for breakfast and then he escorted us on base, signed us in at the auditorium and we went in and sat down. It was a nice, simple, no frills graduation. After we waited in the auditorium talking to the officers and other families while our sailors checked out of the classroom. After that they were ours!!!!

Comment by purplegiraffe69 on December 19, 2012 at 11:15pm: Anyone ever gone to C school graduation? my son graduates in a few weeks and we are planning on attending. Any info would be great? times, how to get on base, how long the cermony is, do they get liberty that day? Thanks!

Comment by Kim on November 21, 2012 at 10:09pm: Hi! ESWS = Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist. Basically the sailors attached to ships company get the surface warfare first, then they can study for the others. There were two IS's on my son's ship that had one pin on top of their ribbons and two underneath! They were the surface warfare, air warfare, and the IDW pins. Maybe they did it for homecoming to show them all off...I thought it was cool until I was reading that they were only supposed to wear two! It still looked pretty impressive!

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on November 21, 2012 at 9:05pm: Maybe the 3rd pin (really the 1st pin) was their wings for pilots or the pins that the submariners wear.

Comment by Anna on November 21, 2012 at 6:39pm: Kim,

Yes, sometimes we wonder with the info out there. My son has his air warfare and the IDW comes before that - most likely because he got the AW when he was an AO like Mary mentioned and now he is an IS so that pin would take precedence. What is the ESWS? And I heard only two pins as well so I'm not too sure about more than that!!!!

Comment by Kim on November 21, 2012 at 1:26pm: It gets kinda confusing when there are different pins, commands, etc. their own rules say that only two pins can be worn at one time but I saw multiple sailors that had three stacked on their blues! Who knows!

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on November 21, 2012 at 8:18am: Kim, thank you so much for the info. I bet Anna knew that too but her Chris likely got his surface pin when he was AO during his first enlistment. She might have just left that part out figuring I already knew it.

Comment by Kim on November 21, 2012 at 12:16am: I don't post much here but you all were talking about the IDW pin. My understanding is they have to have either the surface warfare or the air warfare pin first before they can work on the IDW pin. Also, the ship or division they are in have to have enough senior people that have the pin to be able to sign them off. In the early days it was a little tough. This pin hasn't been around very long. If someone spends enough time on a ship they can get surface, air and information pins! My son has both ESWS and IDW. He told me the opposite of how to put the pin initials after his name so I'll have to look in the cruise book and see!

Comment by Mary (Chris' mom) on November 20, 2012 at 12:26pm: Oh ok. Thanks for the info. he is back home at Atsugi sharing his travels and adventures with Liz. I saw pics of him at fb a while ago. Was soooo good to see his smile!

Comment by Anna on November 20, 2012 at 12:15pm: Mary,

I don't think he has to wait until any advancement he just needs to tell his leader he wants to work on that pin - of course after things quiet down for him with his other pin!!!) They are all good, but all ISs will have to have the IDW at some time.