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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.
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This Group is for those that have sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 06/14 /2013. A place to keep up with each other as their journey continues.
Your current Group "veteran members" are:
diannep
LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons
ellen0502
♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW
Betsy, son on Stennis carrier
Craig
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 69
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013
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~If your last name is different from your Recruits it is still not recommended for you to use in your username for your own personal security. This is your option. It is also not a good idea to use an email address as your username for personal security reasons.
~First Names and pictures of your Recruit are allowed but remember, everyone can see it and someone can easily match them up with their "mom". So you might want to consider changing your profile picture to not include your Recruit at least for the duration of BC. Again, your option
~It is also a good idea to make your settings for your Profile Page "viewable only to your friends".
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I wonder if one of the veteran moms can confirm something. When I spoke with my son on Sunday night, he said that Division 227 was originally in Ship 9, but they were moved to Ship 12. His form letter came the next day and it showed Ship 9. I am pretty sure (from other things that I have seen) that Division 227 is in Ship 12, but was hoping that LaLa Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons, ellen0502
or ♥FireTeamLeaderWife♥ aka FTLW would know how to confirm this. Thanks!
Good Morning All !
Good, Deedee: He will be in the first group to go through BattleStations, therefore one of the first sailors of this PIR group! HOOYAH!
lori: When you speak to your SR, it is best to ask what training day he is on then. It will be training week/day that he will give you. Write it on your calendar and you can keep up. Training days are M-F--they are on HOLD on the weekends. Day 1 is not necessarily on a Monday....can be any day between M-F. Memorial Day will push the training day count back a day (no training on holidays).
Like FTLW said, these are numbered during the training weeks only . The numbers do not include processing days when they arrived at bootcamp nor the non-training days they have after they have completed BattleStaitons. Some may have a week of non-training days after BattleStations, others just a couple of days. Just depends on when their divisions go through BattleStations. The lower-numbered divisions will have the most time between BattleStations and PIR.
Thank you Ellen and JJ4Navy, all this information is greatly appreciate it. The makes me feel so much better to know that this will not set him back in any way..We all can not wait until June 14th.... I must attent the Sarge's Meet and Greet.... I will be looking forward to meeting you all....
lori: No, unless there is a very unforeseen delay, the higher-numbered divisions are never ahead of the lower-numbered in training. However, there have been a couple of cases over the past few years where a couple of higher numbered divisions went through BattleStations before a couple of lower numbered divisions....only has happened twice that I remember....but that was for a very unusual delay in training and they just "swapped nights." BattleStations is their final test and they go in order from lower numbered to higher numbered division, other than 800/900 divisions which are random.
It IS possible that four divisions are on the same training day though...hence the reason that sometimes 4 divisions go through BattleStations together.
Hope I don't have you utterly confused! :-)
seansmom: So glad that your son is back and training again! He is living proof that some waivers are being issued for re-entry into the military. We had been told previously that waivers were not being accepted at all because of the overmanned Navy....but your son has proved that there is still hope! Prayers that he will stay healthy this time and make it through bootcamp with no issues!
Good Morning All !
My daughter and I will be attending the PIR on 06/14. We can't wait. Also Sarge's Meet and Greet.
Please let me know if I have a Ship # wrong for any of your SR's divisions.
We have posted your Division Discussions up above. Please use them to get to know each other even better on a "Divisional" basis...BUT remember that you all have the same PIR date and many of you will be attending the same Meet and Greets...so please continue to post on the Main Wall here...you all have developed such a nice group!
Also, please continue to post your questions for us "veteran moms" on the Main Wall here. We have 7-8 active PIR groups going at one time..that's 70-80 Divisions! We try to get to the Division Discussions but with that many it is difficult! We don't want to miss any questions as ALL are important...no dumb ones...for many of you this is your first servicemember and we want to be there to help and lend support.
N4M's Community Guidelines and OPSEC apply to the Discussion Forum area as well. The Division Discussions are viewable to all...just like the Main Wall here.
Please do not start new Division Discussions.
Discussion Forum Area
This is the place to start a Discussion about a topic and for your Division Discussions.
The Discussion Forum area is set to show titles only and is set at ten titles at a time for now. (This can be adjusted by the group creator or an administrator)
It is also set to show the "latest activity"(there are other settings). So whatever has just had a reply added to it will "bump" that Discussion to the top. The discussion will stay up there at the top because it has had "activity"…until the next Discussion has activity. If there are over ten discussions, whatever is at the bottom will disappear from view…but not from the Discussion Forum. So, if you want to see more, click "view all" at the bottom right hand corner of the discussion forum area. It is right up there above the Blue Comment Wall bar.
To "bump" up a discussion to the first spot of the DF area when you don't really want to add a reply...in other words someone is looking for it...just type whatever you want in the reply box and click "add reply". I just type one letter or even a period and add the reply.
When you view a DF by clicking on the title, the first post ever made will be the first one on the first page. To get to the most current reply, click “Last Reply” directly underneath that particular Discussion.
~You will also notice that in the top right corner in any post that you do you will see an "x". This is so you may delete your post if you need too. You will also see the “x” on any post you make anywhere else on the site.
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