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A place to talk, learn, laugh, cry, share stories, become friends (even if only here) and most of all to support each other. We are in this together!

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 70
Latest Activity: Aug 29, 2013

Welcome to the PIR 06/15/2012 TG 31

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 Sailors/Recruits 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 yahoolady51 on July 27, 2012 at 12:23pm: Time to leave the group. Thank you all for the help and support. On to AO Group.

The best of luck to all your sailors.

Comment by Jaime A-Corpsman St. MOM on July 19, 2012 at 2:13am: Thankyou, you too!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 18, 2012 at 9:10am: Leaving this group now! Blessings to you and your Sailors.

Comment by ellen0502 on July 10, 2012 at 10:06pm: Leaving this group now, on to the next. Blessings to all of you as you begin the next step of the journey with your Sailors.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 19, 2012 at 9:01pm: If anyone in this group lives within driving distance to New Port Richey FL (surrounding areas include Holiday, St Petersburg, Clearwater etc I will be there on vacation and I am going to have a get-together for all of my navy Mom friends who would like to join us on Wednesday afternoon/evening. I will have goodies/food and we can all sit around (or in if you prefer) the pool and just have a fun time getting to know each other and talking about our recruits and Sailors. If anyone is in that area and would like to join us please send me an email and let me know. My hubby will be away on a fishing trip and we were gonna do it Monday because he wants to be there but that is our 1st wedding anniversary <3 So, I would love to have you join me and others and you will get to meet my Sailor as well :-) The date is Wednesday June 27th. If you would like to meet but that afternoon or evening isn't good for you let me know and we will set up a another time while I am there :-) I am so excited to meet some of my navy Mom friends!!! My email is uniquememorymakers@yahoo.com

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on June 18, 2012 at 5:16pm: Thank you both!

Comment by Dani T.(Ship 12 DIV 186) on June 18, 2012 at 5:04pm: PaulaP - thank you :-))

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on June 18, 2012 at 4:54pm: DaniT - Thank you for posting about PIR!

I reposted your comment without your sons last name.Last names of Recruits/Sailors are not allowed on N4M's. Please delete the original post. Just click on the little "x" in the top right corner.

(Or PaulaP if you could do it.)

TY!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on June 18, 2012 at 4:51pm: Comment by Dani T.(Ship 12 DIV 186)5 hours ago

My son's divison won Hall of Fame as well and my son- carried the hall of Fame flag for his division - Div 186 - we were the division with all the loud folks - LOL!! all the way at the end. LOL!!. It was a great great great weekend. I met many of you especially those staying at the Courtyard Marriott Waukegan - great hotel and great Navy families there. We can't express how great the weekend was. As a new military family we were amazed at the love they have for our young Sailors. My son stayed at Great Lakes for A Training School and the yes indeed please have a GPS handy if you want to get around. THat has to be the largest base I have ever seen in my life. LOL!!

My highlight of the weekend was Saturday when we took our Sailor to the Navy Pier in Chicago for the day for a family outing before we headed back to Wash. DC and he stayed at Great lakes - CONSTANTLY, CONSTANTLY - he was stopped and asked to shake hands and take pictures because he was their hero - my mother and I was in tears. This 9 year old lil girl (i posted the pictures on facebook) just came up to my son in his Navy uniform and said Can I shake your hand, you are my hero. And he just smiled from ear to ear and said - Yes Ma'am, thank you ma'am...I was so so so proud of my son.

So if you haven't had your PIR yet and your son or daughter is fortunate enough to be in the Great Lakes/Chicago area the Saturday after their PIR take them to the NAVY PIER in Chicago so they can exerpience that as well - it really helped my son put it in perspective how important they are to all of us as their fellow Americans. My son had never experienced perfect strangers coming up to him asking to shake his hand and take pictures with him because he was serving his country in the Navy & therefore a hero in their eyes -- TALK ABOUT A MOMENT for me as his mom, and my mom (his grandmom) my sister (his aunt) and my daughter (his sister) we were all in tears :-)))) !!

Comment by Jaime A-Corpsman St. MOM on June 18, 2012 at 10:38am: Yes, def agree with Lars too and would HIGHLY recommend bringing a GPS from home. It made driving through the city so much easier!