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ALUMNI OF PIR 09/28/2012 TG 46 — 13 Divisions (307–316, 819, 820 & 946)

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This group is for family and friends of SRs who graduated on 9/28/2012. A place to keep up with each other as the journey continues with our Sailors.

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Location: Great Lakes, IL
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Latest Activity: Aug 20, 2014

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Comment by cristyg on August 12, 2012 at 1:32am: She was able to call tonight she had some medical issues during the week that was easily treated with medicine but in turn she was able to call home. I missed the call and she called her husband, she said she would be working on the guns in the performance division ????? Not sure what that means and she didn't elaborate. Thanks lala, you must be very proud of you daughter as well .

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on August 11, 2012 at 7:37pm: Hi everyone, yes I am back lol. I will be in and out a lot. We were pretty busy all day and tomorrow we are having a going away party for our daughter. We will be taking her to UNC Wilmington next weekend. We are actually planning to have dinner in the Wrightsville Beach area On Saturday (8/18) with some other navy Moms that I have met on here and of course their husbands/families as well. So if anyone lives in that area that would like to join us please let me know.

My daughter was in the choir during bootcamp. It was AMAZING to hear her singing for all those people. I can't even explain the way it makes you feel :-) There are actually several different performing divisions that all rotate. One PIR date will have the band, choir and drill team and they are known as the triple Threat. The PIR performing division graduating the next week may be the Flag Corps and the week after that would be the Sailors who are the behind the scene workers and the side boys, and body snatchers. There are usually 3 performing divisions from 3 different PIR's all working together to put on the amazing show at PIR. So if your soon to be Sailor is in the band, choir, flag, drill, side boy etc you may be able to get a pic of them performing. They normally perform at the 2 PIR's before their on and perform at their own as well. You can join the two PIR groups before your own and ask them if they could please take a few pics and come back and post them. Let them know where your recruit will be, like choir, band, drill, state flags etc and that will make it easier for them. I was able to get a pic of my Sailor by doing that :-) And then you can do the same for the PIR performing divisions who have PIR the two weeks after yours. Let me know when you find out what your recruit will be doing during the performance. If you have any questions at all please let me know. I am happy to help. Here is a pic of my Sailor singing with the choir. She is the blonde to the right of the mic standing next to the guys..

Comment by cristyg on August 11, 2012 at 6:30pm: Thank FTLW , thanks for the info as well. I am so overwhelmed with emotions today with arrival of the form letter, she even jotted I love you on the back. I think I am more of a emotional disaster today than the the day she left. She is really there...

Comment by cristyg on August 11, 2012 at 5:41pm: Thank FTLW , thanks for the info as well. I am so overwhelmed with emotions today with arrival of the form letter, she even jotted I love you on the back. I think I am more of a emotional disaster today than the the day she left. She is really there...

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on August 11, 2012 at 5:04pm: Love your profile pic cristyg!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on August 11, 2012 at 4:55pm: This is an older post but you can get "the jist" of it:

http://www.navyformoms.com/group/pir1008/forum/topics/interesting-i...

Here is a post from lemonelephant (who is great with this!)

Reply by lemonelephant on June 26, 2012 at 12:37am

There are 3 types of 900 divisions. There are the Band/Bluejacket Choir/Drill team, otherwise known as Triple Threat (the musicians, singers, and drill team), the Sticks (those who carry the state flags), and the Ship Staff/Honor Guard (the body snatchers, those who guard various things...). Three 900 divisions perform their duties at each PIR, the 900 division(s) from that TG and if needed one to three 900 divisions from the next one or two TG's. Each 900 Division performs in their own PIR and in the PIR for one or two TGs ahead of their own. They may also have performances in the community--that happens mainly for the Triple Threat though.

I believe that Division 939 is the Sticks.

Here is a link to the 900 Group on this website:

http://www.navyformoms.com/group/900sdivisionsailors

LaLa Ribbon Queens Sailor was in a 900 Division so I know she will have great info for you when she gets back on...has a family day I think today!

Congrats and hope the above can at least get you started!

Comment by cristyg on August 11, 2012 at 4:29pm: Can one of you veteran moms post some infomation about performance divisions for me please and thanks.

Comment by cristyg on August 11, 2012 at 4:26pm: Yeah got my form letter PIR Sept 28, ship 2 division 946 .anyone else in this division?

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on August 11, 2012 at 4:05pm: Here is a Discussion I started about using devices other than a computer for accessing this site. I have posted how I use my Android and would love to get any input/questions added to it! Thanks for your help!

TIPS for Connecting up with N4M's with Smartphones, Tablets, and Ot...

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on August 11, 2012 at 3:11pm: Here is a funny on that.

When my Hubby was in Iraq...the same thing happens...you can take the training and the test to go get your own mail...or some from your unit can do it for the rest...or you just get the mail the regular way I asume.

Well, hubs was very busy with his duties (he is an Senior NCO) and so did not bother with it...but some of his team did...and of course had to have some fun with it...so this was the result (even though he never actually took the test!) (The heart is mine though!)