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ALUMNI OF PIR 09/21/2012 TG 45 — 9 Divisions (299–306 & 945)

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This PIR Group is for those members that have loved ones who will be graduating Boot Camp on 09/21/2012. A place to gather information, share concerns and get support as your Recruits start their Navy careers as future Sailors.

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: 81
Latest Activity: Sep 3, 2015

WELCOME TO PIR 09/21/2012

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 Sailors/Recruits are not allowed on this site. If it is in your username you will need to change your username. If yours 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 to not include your Recruit at least for the duration of BC. 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 Rox (FN-EM/Nuke School) on August 31, 2012 at 9:38am: Sad indeed.

Comment by Katie - Dan's Mom on August 31, 2012 at 8:59am: I was just reading about the Blue Star flags....and I was thinking, isn't is sad that my children have never known a time when the US wasn't engaged in hostilities?

Comment by mikeysmom /USS GW on August 31, 2012 at 8:45am: while battlestations is a team effort..do they have to pass the team or will individuals make it and others not....will they see effort on ones part and pass or flunk the whole group??

Comment by Katie - Dan's Mom on August 31, 2012 at 8:37am: I sure hope 12/306 PIR's on time...If they can't get it together, they wont pass battlestations.....

Comment by diannep on August 31, 2012 at 8:16am: Leoyak: He may be home for Christmas. Most of the bases go on "Stand down" during the holiday season and many of the sailors are allowed to go home. This has happened to many of my friends' sailors so keep the faith!

Rox, I think that would be fine since you would have a "sailor" then.

Buddy'sMom: Most likely, that is a last name so please remove your post. We are not allowed to post last names here, but the SRs know each other by last names--so thinking this is one. Many don't even know the first names! Thanks for deleting ! You can hit the "Send Message to Group" prompt at the top right of the page and send the name out that way.

Don't worry, the divisions will pull together. They always do!

Comment by Johanna on August 31, 2012 at 7:50am: Wow, had not heard about the hubbub for Ship 12, Div 306. SR mentioned early
on that it was a rough group, but I thought they had pulled together.

Comment by Rox (FN-EM/Nuke School) on August 30, 2012 at 11:42pm: Thank you Lala and diannep. Thats what I was looking for. So display after BC, but during A school is ok?

Comment by Dee on August 30, 2012 at 10:16pm: My daughter has a bachelor degree from APUS/AMU in Middle Eastern Studies and is working on her Masters in the same field. She put that on her paperwork when she was recruited. The recruiters said she could not get credit for that because the school was not recognized by the Navy. I really disagreed with that and so did her dad. They said they would look into it. They eventually said it wouldn't count because it wasn't recognized. In all the confusion of preparing to leave I never heard her say anymore about it. She just called and said she found out that the university is recognized by the Navy and that she didn't get the credit for her degree. So now she has to do something about that when she gets to her first duty station. She also speaks and reads Arabic and wants to be a linguist and now I wonder if they never persued that avenue for her. I try to keep a positive attitude about this so I don't stress her out. Anyway, she just called and told me all this on the phone but seemed positive about getting it fixed and she loves everything she is doing there. She is coming home after A training and will work 5 days at the recruiter's office. It was so good to hear her voice. When everyone got to make their calls before, she was working at the chaplain's office and missed out. I hadn't heard from her since the first call when she arrived. She's alive and kicking. The letters are great, but hearing her voice is the greatest!!! Have a good evening.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on August 30, 2012 at 7:36pm: We have ours Blue Star Flag displayed because she is serving during wartime. I believe it is customary to wait until they are out of bootcamp though. They used to have a site where you could get them for free but they don't have that anymore.