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ALUMNI OF PIR 09/06/2013 TG 43 - 11 Divisions (331-340 and 943)

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Welcome to the group with SAILORS who graduated Boot Camp on 09/06/2013. A place to keep up with each other as your sailors continue their journey in the Navy.

Location: Great Lakes. IL
Members: 107
Latest Activity: Nov 17, 2013

WELCOME to PIR 09/06/2013! PLEASE See the PAGES section for Informational Posts about BC and PIR. PAGES is underneath the Members Photos. PLEASE scroll down this page here to find the Comment Box to post a reply to the PIR GROUP.

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~OPSEC OPerational SECurity, is always of the utmost importance.

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~Please take the time to read the OPSEC and N4M’s Community Guidelines.

~A quick note here, from the N4M’s CG’s:

• Don’t Jeopardize the Safety of Our Sailors: Remember OPSEC (Operational Security) (Don’t Sink Ships With Loose Lips) This site and all content posted on it are viewable to everyone on the Internet. This doesn’t mean you can’t share things about your Sailor – but too many details can put Sailors in harm’s way. The following are examples of red flags and should not be shared within this community either by posting or sending via a Group message:

• Sailors’ last names. This includes your username if you share the same last name as your son or daughter.

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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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Comment by diannep on August 12, 2013 at 11:54am: Here you go, Jordan'Mom:

http://www.navyoutfitters.com/I_Raised_my_HERO_tee_p/robzart-hero-t...

Comment by diannep on August 12, 2013 at 11:53am: Letters/piks from the pets are greatly appreciated by the SRs! Lala's letter is hysterical. Someone once posted a picture of their 2 dogs, signs hanging around their necks, saying something like: Will work 4 food

So cute! Missing the "hand that fed them!"

I love the idea of a letter from the car, Bridget. How hysterical! Maybe one from the now lonely "shower" would work if your SR happened to like to take lots of long hot showers (like my SR did!). Anything to put a smile on your SR's face and reduce the Bootcamp stress!

Comment by Jordan'Mom Ship 13 Div 333 on August 12, 2013 at 9:56am: Wondered if anyone of you could help me locate an item that I saw previously (should have purchased then) It was a really nicely made shirt that you could pick the color of the shirt and also the embroidery color and lettering and said "some people never meet their hero, I raised mine" I've looked on cafepress, and the links all listed here and cannot find ...Anybody??

Comment by BridgetTheBrit (Ship 11/Div 340) on August 12, 2013 at 9:53am: THANK YOU Lala!!!!! I was sitting there last night, writing this absolute drivel to my SR, and was desperate for some ideas!!! We have two horses, two dogs, and a plethora of farm cats! A whole week taken care of :). Maybe one from his car, complaining about his dad's driving, perhaps even one from the game consoles (they must be pretty lonely, after all!).
I got this!

Comment by Tammy - Ship 3 Div 338 on August 12, 2013 at 9:43am: Lala that is hilarious!

Comment by 1navyson on August 12, 2013 at 9:31am: Thanks for all the suggestions to help kids deal with missing their SR. Before bed last night, I talked it over with my daughter and she thinks she wants a calendar that she can cross off days until she can see him again. I am printing a blank one and will put a picture of my son on 9/6. I thought I would add other things going on as well, going to dentist, school starting, dance starting. She is excited and I know this will help the next 25 days go by faster for her.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on August 12, 2013 at 8:27am: Good morning Navy Family :) I hope you had a good weekend and are ready Monday!

If you are writing every day like I did you may start to run out of things to write about. I remember writing about the crazy neighbor, about me stalking the poor mailman, what siblings and family were up to, copied posts from her facebook page so she could keep up with her friends, I even had her best friend come over every Monday night so we could watch their fav TV show together then I sent her synopsis of everything that happened lol. And I still ran out of the things to write about. So i wrote a letter from our family cat. It was so funny and she loved it. So if you run out of things to write about try writing a letter from your recruits pet. You can even throw in a pic :) Here's my letter, I hope you like it.

The letter to my Sailor from our cat was hilarious. Our cat is huge and needs to loose some weight and when our Sailor was home she was in charge of feeding him. She kept the bowl full all the time. I talked to the vet and had "special" food and was measuring out what he could have twice a day. The cat "Shadow" was not happy with his rations and kept going to my Sailors bedroom door begging for food. He searched for her all the time. So maybe write your recruit a letter from the family pet J Here is the letter I sent….. “Dear Loran, since you left everyone here has gone crazy. They are starving me and they don’t understand my needs. I insist that you talk some sense into them right now. If not you are going to have to come home and take care of this in person. I just can’t take it anymore. It is like they don’t care about me. You are the only one that understands my needs. Why did you leave anyway? I know you think you are all grown up and you need to spread your wings like Charlie (our bird) but why didn’t you take me with you. Is this a financial problem? Do they not have the money to buy my food, because the big guy could use a few less Cheeseburgers if you know what I mean? Please let me know if you are going to take care of this problem. Charlie is looking mighty tasty!!! BTW, I overheard them talking and saying you were at boot camp and I know you LOVE shoes but did you really need to go to camp in a foreign state just to get a pair of boots? They do sell those at the mall right? I hope you come to your senses soon, my tummy is growling and no that is not purring that they hear!!!

Yours Truly,

Shadow

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on August 12, 2013 at 8:26am: When my Sailor made the "I'm a Sailor" call she called me, the boyfriend, her dad, her grandpa, her grandma, and then ran out of min on her calling card so she called me collect to my cell, not all cell phones allow collect calls. The operator came on and said you have a collect call from ________ and it will be $10 for 10 min, do you accept the charges? Of course I said yes, I think I would have paid $100 to talk to her for 10 more min lol.

Comment by diannep on August 12, 2013 at 8:16am: meant to say---- if you can find your SAILOR since they are sailors after BattleStations! HOOYAH! :-)

Comment by diannep on August 12, 2013 at 8:14am: Disneygirl: They get a time limit on their call time. They can divide it up however they want to! The good news is, depending on how many divisions are trying to call (sometimes 4 divisions go through BattleStations at a time, but the norm is usually 2 or 3)....they can have a L O N G time for calls. My son had an hour. However, only 2 divisions went through that night.

So keep that phone close when it is BattleStations time! You never know! Also, they can get on the computers first many times before they get their time on the phones, so be checking FB accounts too after BattleStations to see if you can find your SR.

Good Morning!