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Comment by mandiekaye04 (ship 11/div 081) on February 19, 2012 at 11:41pm

Exactly!

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on February 19, 2012 at 11:37pm

the hardest thing is to find it again lol, I always have trouble finding something that I know is out there because I saw it before haha

Comment by mandiekaye04 (ship 11/div 081) on February 19, 2012 at 11:20pm

Lol I had been looking for the answers to those questions for a little while and finally I clicked the right link that took me to another and finally to the one I was looking for!

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on February 19, 2012 at 11:11pm

That was pretty quick Mandie, I need to have you search for info for me lol.

Comment by mandiekaye04 (ship 11/div 081) on February 19, 2012 at 10:48pm

ok, nevermind to my question I just posted. lol I kept looking and found the page for this!

Comment by mandiekaye04 (ship 11/div 081) on February 19, 2012 at 10:35pm

I have a question about the Ceremonial Guard...If they get accepted, do they ship out to the training for that the same time the rest are going to their A-school? Most of them on Friday/Saturday? I really hope not, because that means no weekend for us, but he was supposed to go to A-school in GL so we would have had the whole weekend to spend with him. Any answers will help!!! I have been looking and the page for them is old so I was looking for a little more current info...

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on February 19, 2012 at 10:06pm

I am sorry you won't be able to go Hannah and I hope his family will come to love you as much as he does :-)

Amy, one thing to remember is at bootcamp they very often tell them they can't have anything at all, not even a cell phone but we all know that once they leave that base they have new people who are in charge and that will have to be the ones who tell them what the can and cannot have. They are allowed a lot more than they are led to believe at bootcamp :) Thank goodness!!!!

Comment by HannahKathryn17 on February 19, 2012 at 9:26pm

crlmltn: I can relate to your whole alone on island thing, although I have been getting letters regularly. I am on here seeing all these people counting down to PIR and talk about meet and greets and scarves and I can't participate in any of it. As much as I would love to go to my boyfriend's graduation, I can't. It would be way too awkward with his family there. They, for some reason or another, don't seem to be huge fans of me. Even with letter though, I don't know the  half the answers to your questions. My bf usually just says what he did that day briefly and just responds to my letters. 

Comment by 0309mom on February 19, 2012 at 8:31pm

I mailed my son a combination of the BC questionares that you all sent and I want to thank you very much.  With any luck he will at least mail that back to me.  I feel like I am on island all alone and have nothing to contribute to this site.  I know he hates to write, he always has and I am trying hard to remember that.  I do have some questions and I hope you can answer them.  What is Marlinspike?  What does hell week consist of? I thought that was for the Marines and that the Navy just did the Battlestations.  How do we find out when Ship 09 Div. 086 does battlestations?  Is there somewhere on here that I can see what they are doing each week?  I don't even know what training he has gone through or what awards his division has received.  Thank you in advanced for your help in filling me in on my sons life.

Comment by zStratMom on February 19, 2012 at 1:56pm

IF YOUR SAILOR has A SCHOOL AT GREAT LAKES:

After liberty is called at PIR on FRIDAY, you have a short interval of time to visit. They have to report back to their ship, and "transfer" or report in to their new location off the recruit command and on the actual Great Lakes base [*see "NOTE" about planning to connect, below!]. Your sailor will go through an orientation and be assigned to their new barracks. THEN, they will be granted liberty--unless they have watch. Most often, they will know if they will have to stand watch in advance, AND most often if they have family coming, they are able to trade with another sailor. By this time, it's going to be around 4:00 or 4:30 in the afternoon. You will be able to meet them ON BASE at their barracks location to sign them out for liberty. During THIS liberty (or any liberty over the weekend), you may give your sailor his / her personal items (civies, electronics).

*A SCHOOL @ Great Lakes - ONE MORE NOTE: When you're visiting with your sailor between PIR and their CHECK IN to their new "station" on base, MAKE A PLAN for how you will meet. IF YOU HAVE a rental car, you can not take it on base without a military or dependent ID. So the best place to meet is the Visitor Center parking lot (there's a visitor center and small museum at this site), just outside the MAIN gate. NOW you can give them a phone! Once you give them their phone, it will be easier to connect.

They will have set liberty hours. In our case, I had flown my DIL and my son's two children (3 yr, and 4 mo at that time) out with us. BECAUSE he had dependent family he would not see for another several months, he was granted liberty for the WEEKEND and came with us to the hotel. A GREAT option if you have this scenario is to select a hotel, such as the Residence Inn, that has two bedrooms, a living room and kitchen. The livingrooms have sleeper sofas, and the kitchen makes it easy to handle the needs of the kids.

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