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PIR 3/18/11

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For everyone with a Recruit that has a PIR 3/18/2011 date! Divisions 103-108 and 918

Members: 84
Latest Activity: Jan 24, 2013

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Comment by SubWife5611 on January 26, 2011 at 4:40pm: I know where your coming from. I would tell my fiance everything! And now I have nobody to vent to anymore:( The way you do it makes total sense in the first place. I like that idea. And yes No news is Good news. I actually came homea bit ago from the doctor, here I had left my cell at home by accident, and I had a missed call from an 867 area code. I absolutely freaked out! Here it was the Public Affairs lady calling me back about a message I had left. His recruiter could give me everything but his ship number so he gave her number. She said she couldn't give the info out to me even though it was right in front of her....Grr. I cannot wait for a call or letter. I'm a mess now Lol.

Comment by Angie (Dan's Mom) on January 26, 2011 at 4:18pm: Seabee I totally understand and feel free to email me privately if you dont want to post on the board here Most of us are Moms and we dont rant to our kids unless its about cleaning their rooms etc But a wife...heck that is one of the things husbands are for...so if you need a rantee Im here for you write away, if you want my private email or even my phone number I dont have a issue with that

But just beware if I hear from that one person in my office who's kid just went off to college and she wont see him until spring break but texts him or talks to him 3 or 4 times a day and wonders what the heck is wrong with me lately, I may just rant at you LOL Stay Strong NavyWife!!

Comment by SeabeeWifeDawn(ship 02 DIV 918) on January 26, 2011 at 4:06pm: Hi ladies (and hannah's sailor lol), I'm going to apologize in advance because this is going to be long, but if I tried to write to hubs before ranting this out he would probably think the world was coming to an end here. :p

(quick preface)... I work at a daycare, I'm the lead teacher in a two year old room, (admit it, I know, you're ALL jealous). Anyway, I came back from my lunch break; (not in the best mood because I went home- it's a 20 min drive one way; to see if I got my letter & no letter), :( and the second I walked in the door, the assistant who was giving me my break jumped all over me. She said, "you should put names on your cots, not numbers, because the numbers are too confusing, we don't know where any of the cots go!" (I hadn't even had a chance to put my purse away or take my coat off). I asked her how names would help because if I had names she still wouldn't know where everyone slept, but she just kept on about it telling me when she was in this room with another teacher they had names on the cots & then you could just put them in the right spot! Now here's the thing, I have a map of my room hanging in the closet (where the cots are kept), on that map I have the location of all the cots drawn out, with the number of the cot that goes in that spot, then I have another piece of paper numbered from 1-12 with the name of the child who sleeps on the cot number written there. The reason I do this is because I don't want to have to change the name on the cot every time I have a child move into or out of my room.

Okay, sorry about that, I feel better now getting that out! This is the kind of thing I would normally tell hubs about, but one, he doesn't need that at BC and two, I really don't need him to "fix" it (that's what he usually tries to do). lol I just needed to rant about it & now I'm OK and can write a nice upbeat letter about how wonderful things are at home! lol :D

Have a GREAT day everyone! To everyone who hasn't receive your letter yet either, we WILL get them soon! "No new is good new" right? ;p

Comment by Angie (Dan's Mom) on January 26, 2011 at 3:34pm: Anyone know anything about Navy Week? I see that some of the Navy coordinators are having a Navy For Moms booth or table at Navy Week I tried going on line to find out who the person here is to contact I would love to be involved in that and help spread the word to other Navy Moms about this wonderful board since we are having a Navy Week here in Rochester

Comment by Hannah'sSailor(Ship07DIV105) on January 26, 2011 at 2:28pm: Navywife: FTs are on both types of Submarines, and Boomers are better for married guys b/c they have a set schedule and spend less time at sea. Port picks are based on class ranking at your instructors discretion. There are only two bases with boomers and those are in WA, and GA.

Diannep: My mother was in that group when I was in boot. I made fun of her for it and now look at me once my fiancee left lol.

Lala: I met Hannah, a week and a half b4 I left for boot camp, she had already signed her contract but we didn't meet through DEP. In that week before I left we became great friends, and she wrote me while I was in. After I got out I asked her if she wanted to be together, and here we are six months later planning our wedding for June, when I get out of A school.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on January 26, 2011 at 2:02pm: My sailor said they were told to roll up their pants leg but never told to roll it back down, so most of them didn't do for fear of being yelled at :(, kind of funny when you think about it. I wonder how long they walk around with it like that lol.

You can put their pic there, it is just that sometimes the RDC's check out this page and they may recognize her and rag her about her moma missin her and stuff like that.

Comment by SubWife5611 on January 26, 2011 at 1:56pm: Waiting is really hard. Going from being around somebody day in and day out for 5 years. Then him leaving. It's insane, but it's so exciting looking forward to something. Kind of makes the time fly.

Comment by Conster1114 on January 26, 2011 at 1:51pm: No letter here either. I have never gone this long without hearing from my daughter. This waiting thing is so hard. Anyway, is it true we are not allowed to put our SR pics as our badge????

Comment by SubWife5611 on January 26, 2011 at 1:50pm: Navymom, my fiance left the 19th and I have yet to receive anything yet either. Maybe tomorrow!

Comment by Navymommalyn on January 26, 2011 at 1:47pm: Hi all:) Haven't gotten the form letter yet but my son left 1/18 so I guess this the place to be unless I hear other-wise..