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Alumni of PIR 8/26/11 (13 Divs - 269-280, 941)

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A group for folks who had sailors graduate from boot camp on August 26, 2011.

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Comment by DeniseC...SailorMom on July 18, 2011 at 1:57pm: Could someone please tell me what a "blurrp" is.

Comment by Kira's mom Ship 02 Div 941 on July 18, 2011 at 1:50pm: Sandi, That is so wonderful to be able to talk to him! My daughter is in the reserves too. I hope that means that she gets the whole weekend too. Does he have to go back to base each night or do you get to keep him the whole weekend? I have been waiting to make reservations until I here from Kira about when she leaves for A school.

Comment by diannep on July 18, 2011 at 11:33am: Oh, ok...I'm sure those things are fine...he will just have to open in front of them. You may want to scan the pictures you send ---collage style ---on a sheet of paper since they have such limited room to store things.

Comment by diannep on July 18, 2011 at 11:16am: ...p.s. Don't send the contac lens yet, anybody! Have to wait until closer to PIR.

Comment by diannep on July 18, 2011 at 11:15am: sandi: What kind of items does he want you to send? Because they aren't allowed "care packages" persay. Are you talking about what he wants you to bring to PIR for him? Just be careful what you send up there because he can get in trouble for it. He needs to "clear it" with RDCs before requesting that you send. Phone cards are fine...a couple of bandaids in a letter are fine...contac lenses for PIR are fine with a small amount of solution....beyond that, be careful! He will have to open any packages in front of the RDCs.

Funny story...my son was there for Thanksgiving/Christmas 2009. He received a care pkg. From TX. Knew no one in TX then. Had no clue who sent it. No name. Had to open it...it was full of goodies...yum. Well, of course he was not allowed to keep it...he is not much of a sweet eater and not knowing who sent this kind of freaked him out anyway--didn't matter...he couldn't keep it...and they grilled him about who would have sent it...so of course the RDCs confiscated it. Later on, he saw them eating the goodies in their office...thought that was funny! Never did find out who sent the pkg to him. Strange.

Comment by diannep on July 18, 2011 at 7:55am: They don't only encourage them to write home, they MAKE them write at least one letter each writing time. Can't say that they would ever take writing privileges away from them, but they may threaten that if they are using it for discipline. But normally, they are allowed to write and they receive their mail.

Remember, they can't write for 2 weeks and mail is held for that length of time also. When I say "write", I mean "mail out." I think kiminaz is correct. I bet there are a bunch of letters leaving RTC today from PIR 8/26!

Reggie: Just "google" Navy Lodge-Great Lakes if you want to get info on it.

Comment by kiminaz (ship 11/div 274) on July 18, 2011 at 12:06am: Reggie - I saw the same thing you saw I believe! My son is also same ship/div and we have not received anything and I think the blurp came from a facebook post of a mom that got a phone call from her SR same ship/div - it sounded like they have been able to write just not send anything until today so hopefully we get something this week because I am a worry wart type mom who would like to know something - anything!!

Comment by SailorsCupcake Div269 on July 17, 2011 at 11:56pm: Reggie - From what I've been told, they cannot withhold their mail or keep them from writing home. In fact, they encourage them to write home. The letters are on their way... I was worried about the same things because I haven't gotten any letters myself. But I finally got a phone call from my husband tonight and said they sent out the first run of letters last Sunday. So I'm sure letters will come tomorrow! :)

Comment by Reggie_Ship11/Div274 on July 17, 2011 at 11:12pm: has anyone with an SR in ship11 div 274 recieved a letter or phone call? we havn't heard from the kid since his form letter arrived 8 days ago...i thought i saw a blurrp on here about their RDC being very strict and not allowing them any privileges? is that true? he can deny him writing privilges? hold his mail from him indefinately? and NO calls at all ever? is this true? just trying to prepare myself..and understand... maybe i'm getting posts mixed up?