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ALUMNI OF PIR 02/17/2012 TG 13 — 07 Divisions (069–074 & 913)

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This group is for families and friends of Sailors graduating on February 17, 2012. We can share information, concerns and ways to connect as we continue the journey from bootcamp to PIR and beyond.

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 105
Latest Activity: Oct 29, 2013

OPSEC, OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmust importance. Please take the timeto read the Opsec and Community Guidelines. A quick note here: Last Names are not allowed on this site. If it is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended. First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture.

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Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on December 29, 2011 at 2:56am: Sometimes they have to get the info right then and there over the phone too...that happened with us.

Comment by Arwen on December 29, 2011 at 1:52am: Some recruits are scheduled to attend schools for jobs that require high security clearance, such as nukes, communications, and some weapons and electronics jobs. In many cases, the materials they will learn at school are classified. So, the Navy has to establish their security clearance before they get to school. They start with a very simple background check while in DEP, then do a deeper security check while they are in boot camp. They ask the recruits for information to help the check go smoothly (old neighbors and friends to talk to), and often the recruit doesn't have that information at boot camp, so they have to call home. Parents have to fax it to the Navy. The recruit is only supposed to give the parents a list of items/information needed, and a fax number, but some of the security clearance workers are nice and let recruits talk for a while.

Comment by Texasproud6272 on December 29, 2011 at 12:05am: I have question! does anyone know why some parents are getting calls regarding security clearance?

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on December 28, 2011 at 4:45pm: Sorry I have been away today, My Sailor made it home late last night :-) So I have been with her today celebrating our late Christmas. She is now off to see her friends so I thought I better jump on here and check on all my Navy friends :-) I hope you are all having a great day!!!

Comment by diannep on December 28, 2011 at 1:51pm: So sweet, Okie. That they included your SR's picture in the singing! I hope you got some video of that! Yes, children/grandchildren missing family events. It happens alot now with them in the military. My son has not made a Thanksgiving with us since 2008...he went in right before Thanksgiving 2009. No birthdays with him either since 2009. Thankfully, he only missed the 1st Christmas (bootcamp) and has been home for the past two...I'm very grateful!

Comment by Okie Cowgirl on December 28, 2011 at 10:37am: Oh my goodness! The last three days have been so busy I haven't been able to look at this site. On Christmas day we traveled over 900 miles to get to my family- Christmas Eve was my parents 50th anniv. I think Christmas was easier for me this year because we sort of pretended that it wasn't Christmas day. We were traveling, so we didn't have any of the normal festivities. For my parents party all the grandkids sang the "I wanna grow old with you" song to my parents. My SR is very close to her cousins/brother, and they didn't want to leave her out, so they held up a picture of her and moved it around like she was singing too. It was funny, yet heart-wrenching. This is the first time ANY of the grandchildren has missed a major event- and she is the youngest. Sigh.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on December 27, 2011 at 4:04pm: You are now officially, (as per RTC Website):

TG 13 — 07 Divisions (069–074 & 913) Graduate Friday, Feb. 17, 2012

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on December 26, 2011 at 8:29pm: Thanks for posting that Arwen, I know that it is very hard to not see or even talk to your recruit or Sailor on Christmas or any other special day. The info you posted may not make it any easier but it does bring it into perspective and make it possible to understand.

Comment by Arwen on December 26, 2011 at 3:30pm: To all those disappointed in not hearing from your recruits for Christmas: this isn't personal. They don't do this to be cruel, it's mental conditioning to prepare future sailors and their loved ones for the reality of going to sea. At sea there are no days off for holidays, birthdays or anniversaries, and precious few phone calls home. Boot camp replicates these conditions.

*They get to call home at predetermined times. The three "guaranteed" calls are like scheduled port visits. And like a ship, if someone's on watch when they're in port they may miss out on the fun.

*They are promised calls home, then the calls don't happen. This replicates a ship planning a port call, but the ship gets rescheduled elsewhere or a storm prevents the ship from pulling into port. On my ship we were once told we would be 3 days at sea. I had a $2,000 flight planned the 5th day to visit my then-fiancé overseas. But we were at sea for 6 days because of weather conditions that interrupted our mission, which had to be completed before we could return to port. No one cared about my flight. There was no offer to reimburse me for the $400 it cost to change flights.

*They get individual random calls home for no apparent reason. Ships' crew phones are turned on and off according to operational need, and are often broken. Some ships have crew phones, some do not.

*They can only post mail once a week. This replicates typical ships' mail systems, they send mail out only when they meet up with a ship or helo that can transport the mail to the right place. Sometimes there is no helo.

*One recruit's screw up can cancel a planned extra call or trip to Ricky Heaven (an arcade/food court/phone bank/mini-mall at boot camp). This replicates what really happens on ships in the Navy. A captain has the leeway to plan for occasional liberty port visits. It happens that if one person or a group screws up, the captain can and will cancel the port visit, messing things up for the whole crew.