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Comment by nursecat(ship 2/ DIV 942) on July 18, 2012 at 8:51pm

I would love an APP. I'm an android user and being able to have fast easy access to this site at all times would be wonderful. I have come to rely on you ladies to get me thru the rough days & hoping I can help others thru theirs

Comment by Mrs.SeniorChief on July 18, 2012 at 8:41pm

We hope to get a letter from our son tomorrow. We got the form letter already. I know that the going is tough the first couple of weeks, so I am hoping he is not disillusioned. I don't foresee John quitting that would be totally out of character for him. Too, he has a lot of pride, he wouldn't want to not get through something his older brother did as well as his dad.

Comment by diannep on July 18, 2012 at 6:19pm

Everyone remember...the mail is held from them for a couple of weeks until the Recruit Mail Petty Officer is trained for the division.  So...they may write you saying they have not received any mail, when your letters are actually ready to be given to them.  Once they receive this held mail, they get regular delivery of mail M-F after that.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on July 18, 2012 at 5:27pm

iPhone users and actually Android too...just had moms talk about this on BC moms...and would love to look for a solution.

The problem that most are having is that you get an email notification and can't reply through email like you can to FB. You have to log onto the site and then do it. More steps involved.

Is that what you are experiencing?

I have an Android and it is the same but I have never used my emails that way. (Plus, when I first joined I did not have a smart phone at all) Since I "work" on here I need access to the whole site pretty much all day and then I can just hop on. I stay logged in and try to log out at least at night. I use my emails to follow Discussions I have created so I can reply...but I don't follow all of the groups I am on...I would have THOUSANDS of emails!(That's a personal preference...you can change your email notification settings)

But for you who have maybe your PIR group that you are following and your Division Discussion (you may have other groups but have used the Stop Following feature)...this is probably laborious...and so FB is much easier. Totally get that!

Let me know if this is an issue and any other issue and I can compile a list and report it if you haven't already.

I asked this on BC Moms as well:

Would an app for N4M's help the situation?

If so, I can suggest it and see what happens!

Comment by Always "Incognito" on July 18, 2012 at 8:37am

Well, howdy there, diannep and lala!!!!  Great to see familiar faces!!!   I was just looking through some old files and found copies of letters that my former SR sent from BC..some of them are hilarious......... just for a giggle of the day, I'll share this little one liner excerpt... Listed under, "things I NEVER thought I would do UNTIL I went to RTC" 

"Iron my underwear (perfectly)"  

LOL!!  

I also ran across the STUPID pet letter I sent her.  I might share that sometime later. 

Comment by diannep on July 18, 2012 at 8:14am

Loved your sailor story, by the way, incognito.  Good for her to "joyfully" do whatever job she is assigned, no matter how "gross"!  I know that her compliance has been noticed and will continue to be rewarded! 

Comment by diannep on July 18, 2012 at 8:12am

"especially"....sorry about that!

Comment by diannep on July 18, 2012 at 8:11am

Always incognito.  Thanks so much for dropping in here!  Hope your sailor is doing well....I still remember when you were on the PIR site when she went through...hard to believe that was 2 yrs ago.  Wow!  So appreciate your info here!  Please feel free to drop into any of the groups when you can and share your info!  The DEP groups esepecially need some N4Moms veteran help....so feel free!

Good morning ladies!

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on July 18, 2012 at 8:08am

OMG "Incognito" It is so good to see you again. It has been a while. It brought tears to my eyes reading your post. I have missed you and I am so glad to hear your daughter is doing well. Mine also went through crappy TAD's. Some of which she hated at the time but now says those were easy. I imagine that is because some of the later ones were much worse lol. Like you, I can't believe it has been almost two years since our daughters had PIR. Time sure does fly after boot camp. I am so glad we were able to meet at the meet and greet and it is good to hear from you here on the PIR groups. Thanks so much for coming back and letting us know how you both are doing :-)

Comment by Always "Incognito" on July 18, 2012 at 7:25am

Seasoned Sailor Mom here.... 

Just wanted to reach back and send a few words of encouragement...I'm not sure what you can take from this but here goes........ My sailor daughter PIRd in July of 2010 (nearing the anniversary date this weekend)......... WOW, really?   LOL  Has it been THAT long?  ;)

I can laugh now but back in those first few of weeks of BC I thought the world clock had actually stopped......everything seemed to take foreeeeeeeeeever!!  Information, letters to and from home, 1- 3 minute phone calls, the half way mark, battle stations, and then PIR.   But what made it all easier to deal with was finding the PIR group on N4M  as soon as I got my SRs information. The women in our group were amazing.... we bonded and helped each other along the experience. We shared parts of letters to help each other stay more informed about the happenings at BC.   Within the PIR group I found about 5 others with SRs in my  SRs division so when my daughter wasnt sharing some specific thing that was happening to the division as a whole, someone else's SR did and that was great!   It also helped that an admin from Navy Affairs would monitor the board and would jump in and answer questions that we were posing when nobody really knew the correct answer or another well seasoned mom would help out too.

Well, a lot has changed since my daughter first left for BC..... she is now an IT3 (aka Petty officer 3rd class/PO3) stationed in Hawaii.  She was able to have her pick of where to go for her first duty station because she scored high in her A school. Yep, when she first got to Hawaii, they put her to work shoveling mud out of a parking lot that backed up after a torrential downpour.  She told me she was covered in mud from head to toe, she was exhausted and as much as she wanted to cry and quit, she was thinking this is NOT going to beat me so she kept shoveling as fast as she could!   Her chief came over at the end of their time doing it and he yelled at her  "<called her by last name> You shovel shit better than any SA I have ever seen, you just earned yourself a day off, you don't have to come in tomorrow!"  She really liked that!  :)   While she was waiting for the intensive background check of her clearance to be completed (yes it can take many months for it to clear- even after they complete A school)   she also had to dig through trash (yes with maggots crawling around) and fish out recyclables and just about everynasty job you can think of but at some point a lot of them end up having to do some of that and its good for them, took me a day or two to stop crying over that and realize this is part of the journey. It will toughen her up.    

She is currently on shore duty for at least another 18 months.  We are just not sure after that... such is the navy.  I find most of our navy conversations are very limited, and things she can discuss often have so many acronyms in them that I feel as if she is literally speaking a foreign language!  LOL  She cant say a lot about her rate but I do get hear funny stories about "Taco Bell Challenges" ... stories about her dog and stories about interesting things to see and do on the island.  I am looking forward to visiting her there soon.    The Navy will work their tails off at BC no doubt about that but they will also take good care of them and keep them SAFE!  The one thing that helped me a lot during that  BC time was this "Well, at least I know exactly where she is and I have an excellent guess as to what she is doing right now"  LOL  Take care!

"Incognito"

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