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ALUMNI OF PIR 4/27/2012TG 24 — 9 Divisions (127–134 & 924)

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Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 93
Latest Activity: Jul 8, 2012

Welcome to PIR 04/27/2012

OPSEC, OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance. Please take the timeto read the OPSEC and Community Guidelines. A quick note here: Last Names of Recruits/Sailors 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 ritajanr7@gmail.com on April 24, 2012 at 11:44am: I'm working but will not miss my call how long do they have to talk? I think I'm going to cry
Rita
Re : Battleship

Comment by shirleyblack52 on April 24, 2012 at 11:17am: i hope so

Comment by diannep on April 24, 2012 at 10:56am: Correction: I hope you hear from your SAILOR, shirley! :-)

Comment by diannep on April 24, 2012 at 10:55am: We think that 131/132/924 went through BattleStations last night. In that case, calls could start at about 2 pm GL time and could go for awhile. I hope you get to talk to your SR, shirley.

Comment by shirleyblack52 on April 24, 2012 at 9:43am: should I get a call today div 924

Comment by Melinda on April 24, 2012 at 8:50am: Lala - Thank you so much for the information and thank you for the ribbons, I received them yesterday. I'm so excited I feel like I'm going to bust. I can't wait to see my little girl (all 6' of her). LOL

Comment by shirleyblack52 on April 24, 2012 at 8:41am: my boy is on ship 02 div 924 grad 04/27/ no form letter or calls

and my daughter and her husband are going up there how do they get in for grad and should i receive the I am a SAILOR call before fridaye please help

Comment by Phyllis S. (Ship 11/Div.131) on April 24, 2012 at 8:39am: yolandaj30 Thank you for sharing such a beautiful prayer.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on April 24, 2012 at 8:09am: WOW, just 3 more days and you will be in that PIR Hall waiting for those doors to open. Can you believe it is finally here? So exciting. Everyone Please PLEASE be careful as you travel and watch out for all the crazy drivers out there on the roads. If you are flying or driving allow yourself plenty of time and get an early start. We left 6 hours earlier than I planed because I was way too excited to sleep. If you are driving from far away like more than 10 hours please consider leaving a day earlier if possible and staying somewhere in the middle. Especially is you don't have someone to help with the driving so you can take turns sleeping. Don't let yourself drive tired it is as dangerous as driving drunk.

If you are planning to drive to the base: don't line up in the far right lane the morning of PIR. That lane ends, so stay to the left of it and it will save you lots of wait time. If time allows check your route the day before PIR. You may be able to drive past the base and turn around and come back from a different direction or the road across the street and have less of a wait by doing that.

When you get into the PIR Hall take some practice shots with your digital camera. Change your settings until you get the best pictures possible with the lighting and environment you are in. You may even try taking some with the flash on and some with it turned off to see which is better. Your pictures will come out much better and you will be glad you took the time to do it.

If you go to Gurnee Mills Mall keep track of the amount of time you have. That mall is huge and there are no pass through stores or hall ways to work as short cuts. It is Z shaped so if you start at one end you have to go back to where you started the same way you came. And, you don’t want to get your Sailor back to the base late.

If your Sailor tells you the day of PIR that they will be on a chartered flight you won’t get to meet them at the airport. They go straight from the base to the Jet and don’t come inside. This doesn’t happen very often but it did happen to us and we didn’t really say goodbye on Friday night because we thought we would have several hours with her at the airport. Had we known we wouldn’t see her at the airport our goodbye wood have been different and we wouldn’t have been at the airport searching for her.

Most of all have fun, enjoy the time with your new Sailor, catch up on 8 weeks worth of hugs and kisses (just not in public lol) and tell them all I said thanks so much for their service to our country and Bravo Zulu :-)