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Comment by wrwmom on October 16, 2012 at 11:13am

diannep how and when will we find flight info so we can airport visit???

Comment by diannep on October 16, 2012 at 10:45am

No, Dena.  They cannot request the airport.  They fly as a group and it will either be Midway or OHare in Chicago. 

bernece: Sometimes the Pensacola sailors fly out the day after PIR.  Most often, this happens.  But there may be a case where they are held there for awhile (but you usually can only see them during PIR weekend).  So it's hard to know.  Our suggestion is that you plan to stay through Sunday....just in case you get more time with them.  You can have airport visits with them when they leave, even getting a airlines gate pass and waiting until their plane leaves.

Comment by diannep on October 16, 2012 at 10:43am

*daytime liberty*

Comment by Dena on October 16, 2012 at 10:42am

My daughter has A School in Florida too.  Can the SR request the airport they fly out of to their A School? 

Comment by diannep on October 16, 2012 at 10:42am

theresa:  Is he staying for A School in GL?  Or does he head out to A School right away?  Do you know?  If he is staying for GL A School, I would stay until Monday..  Because....he should have liberty daytime throughout the weekend. 

Comment by bernece on October 16, 2012 at 10:40am

does anyone know for sure how long we will have with them the weekend after PIR? my daughter has A school in Fla.

Comment by theresa320 on October 16, 2012 at 10:36am

please any suggestions. my son is in division 801. graduation 11/30/2012. i have booked the navy lodge from thursday and checking out sunday.  not sure if i should stay and leave on monday. oh, what to do? 

Comment by cannec024 on October 16, 2012 at 10:27am

My son us also going to sub school. STS

Comment by Mauz on October 16, 2012 at 9:35am

Craig, thanks. Now I know what he will be doing. He wasn't sure what it was all about, but now I can write to him and let him know. It sounds exciting, I'm sure he'll love his job as an IT.

Comment by Craig on October 16, 2012 at 9:05am

ellen - We have a lot of "colorful" names for the different ratings we call each other.  

Yours happens to be a Twidget:

ET Electronics Technician = "Twidget" - A sailor who works or maintains electronic equipment, always carrying a "tweeker" (an adjuster) in their breast pocket to adjust components.

I'm actually a "Spook Twidget".  I do the Spook (Crypto) stuff, and the twidget (electronics) stuff too.

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Mauz - Being a submarine IT, then his rating would be ITS.  That is the very newest Navy rating.  It came out Dec 2010.  

I'm not sure if you even care about the history, but I will post it in case you do.

Below is the official message making that rating.  I know it is really hard to read as a civilian because all Navy messages are in capital letters.  

This is a holdover from the old days when teletypes were how you would get messages.  Because everything was mechanical back then, you had to limit the letters as much as possible because of physical size of the teletype.  This also helped in case the enemy jammed your signals you could actually still get most of the message figured out.  

Yes, and it feels like they're yelling at you too.  Just so you don't feel homesick... 

http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/reference/messages/Documents/...

This is why the recruits are taught how to write in a special way.  You will see that they write in all capital letters.  They cannot double stroke, meaning they cannot trace over the letter when they write.  When you write a capital "B" a normal/regular person would pull down, then trace up over the leading straight line of the "B".  Not is the Navy.  You will be hammered in boot camp for double stroking.  

 Now you know why your recruit is taught how to write in a special way....there is a reason.

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