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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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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 01/16/2015. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Location: Great Lakes, IL
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Latest Activity: Jan 25, 2016
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Trecia,
How many letters does your daughter plan on sending back? Each letter is about an ounce. 13 letters = 13 oz, so a 13 oz flat parcel is $3.32. 14 oz and up goes into the 1-2 lb Parcel Select range. This is a starting point to estimate. Have most of your letters been a couple of pages or the hefty 5 page variety??
I'm going to send a big envelope to my daughter to send mail back home that won't fit in her drawer. How much postage do people usually put on the big envelope?
Victoria,
The shuttle to PIR is $3.00 per person each way. Bear in mind that if you use a shuttle from and back to your airport and you will also be seeing your Sailor off at an airport, you will get a shuttle there too. Also, back to your hotel or to the other airport, if your Sailor is not flying out of the same airport you flew in on. So that's 2 roundtrip airport rides plus taking your Sailor out to eat somewhere unless you are just going to order in pizza at the Navy Lodge. You will need to put your Sailor on a shuttle back to RTC too. That's alot of taxi/shuttle fares!
My car rental from Enterprise Rent-a-Car was only $124.00 from Thursday to Saturday. I flew into O'Hare and my Sailor daughter flew out of Midway--of course! Oh, I did use Sarge's shuttle to PIR and back to the hotel only because I didn't want to bother with all the other Navy families trying to get in and forgetting about shortcuts or what~~
terrif,
In addition to what diannep advised, you need to aim to be at the airport about 3:00 am or so, if your Sailor will be taken there about 1:30 am. This is where you can also give your Sailor the electronics such as cell phone, cell phone charger, laptop, a/c adapter, own comfy underwear, favorite snack from back home and put all into the Navy issued black backpack.
Your Sailor should know the flight departure time which can be anywhere from 6:00 am on throughout the day. Everyone in your party who wants to see your Sailor off needs to have a state issued valid driver's license or id, school id with picture, or birth certificate or social security card. You can then go through the security checkpoint to spend time at the eating places, shops, and waiting areas with your Sailor. Precious, precious time!!
Also, if you fly Southwest Airlines, I understand they provide you with a discount code that gives you a great price on a rental car.
Victoria: You can contact Sarge about his shuttle prices from the airport. Here is a link to some of his info. Not sure if these prices are current, but you can contact him and ask by email: johnspadaro@att.net or text/call 847 212 0246
https://www.facebook.com/SargesTaxiService/info?tab=page_info
The Sailors that will be flying out for A school Saturday usually only have PIR day. So no, not much time for them on Liberty. The exception would be if they end up flying out on Sunday which happens once in a while due to flight availability.
However, the Sailors that attach to TSC GL for their A school will have daytime liberty part of PIR day and Saturday and Sunday.
terrif: Take ID to the airlines counter and they will issue you a gate pass. Your sailor will be with you. It isn't hard and it works out well!
Victoria: Renting a car is always the most economical thing to do. By the time you pay for a shuttle from/back to the airport, and then taxi fares around town if your sailor wants to explore, it can get costly. You can rent a car and still take Sarge's shuttle to PIR if you don't want to drive. So if you feel comfortable renting a car up there, I would suggest that.
Thanks CatMom509. Now another question entered my mind. If your SR is going to be flying to A school, everything I have read says you can get a gate pass to sit with them until they fly out. How do you go about doing this? It has been years since I have had to fly and I don't know the up to date rules.
On picking up Sailors at Great Lakes A school for weekend liberty (Saturday and Sunday), moms on the PIR group that just graduated advised me that the procedure is to pick up your Sailor at the Visitor Center, then you can drive over to his/her barracks to go in and sign him/her out. When dropping your Sailor back off at the barracks, they are allowed to sign themselves back in. All you need is your Sailor and driver's license to get onto the barrack's area to do the sign out and drop off~~
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