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ALUMNI of PIR 11/16/2012 TG 1 — 9 Divisions (001–008 & 901)

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This Group is for those with sailors who graduated Boot Camp on 11/16/2012.

A place to keep up with each other as the journey continues.

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: 103
Latest Activity: Sep 26, 2017

WELCOME to PIR 11/16/2012

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Comment by HeatherT(09/003) on November 10, 2012 at 1:46am: I did get my "I'm a sailor" call!! Hooyah!! Best seven minutes I've had in 8 weeks!! Lol! We kept it short so he could call dad and GF!! Lol!! But mom go the first call!! So happy for my Sailor man!! Now GF and I can point and say navy dude navy dude navy dude!! It's a little joke we do when we see navy men and women in uniform it makes is smile!! Lol!!
He sounded great, different a calmness about him. Said he was tired but doing great!!
So proud of our sailors!! Congrats to 001-004 today!!

Comment by HeatherT(09/003) on November 10, 2012 at 1:34am: Kp125f... We fly into Ohare the 15tb also pm me if you want to talk about catching a ride!! We have four sooo maybe tight but woul love to have you join us.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on November 10, 2012 at 1:27am: Oh and "Rating" is their Occupational Speciality...job that they will be attending school for. :-)

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on November 10, 2012 at 1:25am: Pete'sMom - He is now an Airman then as an E-3.
AN is his rate title.

Comment by Beccazay on November 9, 2012 at 11:12pm: Haven't heard from my daughter today. She is in div 004. :( Anyone else not hear from div 004 today?

Comment by Pete'sMomShip09Div003 on November 9, 2012 at 9:56pm: FTLW - Thank you soooo much for the reply. This is great information. He is E3 and has signed for Aircrew. He's staying back in GL in anticipation of starting A School 12/10/12. He'll be waiting on a final clearance for a wavier in GL. For now I'm just going to go with Sailor until I see him unless anyone knows different:-) BTW they meet with someone on Tuesday for their final flight, etc. details.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on November 9, 2012 at 9:03pm: Here are some links to see the rest of the Group Rate Marks and insignias and to look into the structure: (This can be a little mind boggling...not for the faint hearted LOL! )

Group Rate Marks for Pay Grades E-1 to E-3

Enlisted Rating Insignia

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ranks/rankrate.html (This is the home page for the above two links)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Navy_ratings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_enlisted_rates

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Navy_enlisted_wa...

Also the 2013 Pay Charts:

http://www.navycs.com/2013-military-pay-chart.html

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on November 9, 2012 at 8:56pm: They are all Sailors. Officers and enlisted alike.

I'm going to give you a TMI version (that's the only way I can do it! LOL)

To address them: It's done by Rate (Enlisted Personnel have Rate and Officers have Rank in the Navy) you need to know what their rate is.

SR in BC is Seaman Recruit...the lowest Rate. Most times they are just addressed as Recruit.

BUT, SR-Seaman Recruit is also the Rate for E-1 (Enlisted 1). This is the first Pay Grade level. In BC their pay is slightly lower than an E-1 (it is an E-1 with less than four months of service)

There are four basic Groups:

Seaman - Deck, Administration, Mediacl, Dental

Fireman - Engineering,Hull

Airman - Aviation

Constructionman - Seabees

Pay Grade/Rate

E-1's are Recruits

E-2's are Apprentices

E-3's are ...man. Seaman, Fireaman, Airman, Constructionman

Seaman - SR SA SN (The medical Dental field has abbreviations too...I just don't know how much they're used)

Fireman - FR FA FN

Airman - AR AA AN

Constructionman - CR CA CN

Find out what Rate your Sailor is at as of Graduation. E-3 is the highest you can go in BC. They will love you walking up to them and calling them by their Rate!

They will also have Rate Marks on their sleeves of their Dress Uniforms at PIR if they are an E-2 or higher:
E-2's - 2 marks

E-3's - 3 marks

Seaman - White on Blues and Dark Blue on Whites

Fireman -Red

Airman - Green

Constructionman - Sky Blue

Now, that's "on paper". What they get called by their superiors is another story! Probably just... "Constructionman!!!"

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on November 9, 2012 at 8:34pm: Pete'sMom - I wouldn't send any more mail to RTc (just in case that is what you meant). You can...it will follow them to A school. But ocassionally we have heard it not getting to them My son got his...I wrote in the last week. It took a couple of weeks.

I think this can happen when the Sailors move around a bit after BC rather than those that go to their next command and stay put. Also, it is Holiday time so the regular mail gets slower.

You can still write and save it and give it to them at PIR...if you have things that you wish to say and want to espress them while it is fresh!

As far as how to address them, I'll post that next.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on November 9, 2012 at 8:30pm: CONGRATULATIONS to the new Silors of Divisions 01-04!

Congratulations to all of you here as well!