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Comment by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy on July 13, 2010 at 2:49pm

m'smom: love your story about your last 2 days at work - thank you for sharing that! I believe God has all our children under his care and sends us reminders (some in uniform) to let us know that He is in control!

Comment by m'smom on July 13, 2010 at 1:37pm

I keep typing comments and then going to check something else out before I hit the add button. Just a warning...you have to type the whole thing over again!!! LOL Maybe I will learn.
What I had typed before was..We seem to have a small PIR with only 5 divisions. I was checking out the Meet & greet site for the 8/13 PIR group. They are so organized, crafty & involved! It is a little scary. Check it out and see if they have an idea that hits you, to modify for us. Maybe if we focus on this it will make time pass quicker!!??

Comment by tnpromised Div 285 PIR 08/27/10 on July 13, 2010 at 11:21am

Counting the days too...miss him SO much!

Comment by m'smom on July 13, 2010 at 11:08am

I would like to share my last 2 days with you. I work at a cemetery. We occasionally (maybe once a month) have a military service for someone who has past. We have had 2 in the past two days. Yesterday I had a dozen Air Force in my office, in full uniform. Today it was the Navy in their whites. I don't think it is coincidence that they were here 2 weeks to the day from when my son shipped to BC. Just another reminder that there is a higher power watching over all of us. 44 days and counting.

Comment by TxNavyMomWifeCPO(Ship6Div941) on July 12, 2010 at 10:13pm

Amen sister! I also was a high school teacher and always, always gave my students the sage advise of "If you do something wonderful and serve this great country then you will get so much more in return!" Before I stopped teaching (to become an artisan baker no less) I had five students join the service 4 Navy (of course) and a Marine. When were you in Jax? We were there from 1986 to 1989. Hubby was in the A7/F18 community at Cecil Field, but we had LOTS of friends in the P3 community! I think what your son is doing is soo cool! Hard to believe, but some of the best food that I have eaten(emphasis on some) was in Navy Galleys. I was at New Orleans for a time and we had a CS that made the BEST cajun food...it would put some civilian chefs to shame! And when I was pregnant with said daughter I had the WORST morning sickness one could imagine. My saving grace? SOS from the USS Kitty HawK SOS to you new Navy Moms is Chipped Beef but...we sailors call it Sh-t on a Shingle. Yum!

How funny how you met your husband! I bet the old AWC got alot of razzing in the Mess! Yes I know that HM is a closed rate, but my sweet daughter LOVES to help people and she is so caring. It will be good for her and will help her decide her path on her release from AD in five years....she whans to be a nurse or doctor. Yes you are so right in regards to the GI bill especially the post 911 GI bill. I cannot wait to meet you! You sound so neat, and I would sure love my daughter to talk with you after graduation! Good to know you shipmate!

Comment by TxNavyMomWifeCPO(Ship6Div941) on July 12, 2010 at 8:42pm

I am a YNC and am now a reservist. Came in 1999 as a YNSN under the Advanced Paygrade (APG) program. My son graduated from Great Lakes in 2006 and he is an AWF2. Daughter, who is now up at Great Lakes is going to be a Corpsman as well. Seems those are two great rates--my son travels the world quite a bit and brings us back neat little treasures. Hubby served 30 years--first as an AD then as a Maintenance Officer retiring as a Commander. He was having so much fun(met him when he joined the Navy) that I joined up many years after we married :-) We get lots of funny looks--and and I caught lots of "heck" for that when I was a YNC(select). Are you and your husband going wear your uniforms for graduation?

Comment by TxNavyMomWifeCPO(Ship6Div941) on July 12, 2010 at 6:18pm

Sobe-exactly what I just said :-)

Comment by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy on July 12, 2010 at 6:05pm

Confirming that the PIR date for the 5 divisions graduating on 8/27 WILL NOT CHANGE, however that does not mean that each recruit in those divisions will graduate! If a recruit is held back - for any reason - they will be assigned to a new division with a later PIR date.

The post below from TxNavyMom also re-confirms the advice that myself and several other moms have suggested: Make your travel plans as if your recruit is NOT a Grad & Go!! Her reasons for changing her plans were unique, but I can tell you this - you will be tired after seeing your new sailor off at the airport that Saturday morning and you will appreciate a night to relax before you drive/fly back home on Sunday! AND... the Navy can change anything at any time. You want to see them as much as possible, so plan to travel home late Sunday afternoon at the earliest!

Comment by TxNavyMomWifeCPO(Ship6Div941) on July 12, 2010 at 4:19pm

The graduation date will not change. However, it is quite possible that an individual recruit might be set back to a later date due to various factors-illness, training issues, etc. Please make sure your travel plans are changeable. Our son Chris was NOT a "grad and go" when he PIR'd four years ago. BUT a week before graduation we received a letter from him stating that he was a "Grad and Go" So....we were able to change our flight itinerary because of our active duty status. HOWEVER, the afternoon after Battle Stations we get a call from him that nope, he was not a Grad and Go after all. Too late :-( we were unable to change back to our original schedule. We only had him for the Friday afternoon and part of Saturday. We had to drop him off mid morning back at the ship so that WE could catch the plane...not him...it was heartbreaking. Needless to say, we are traveling via Amtrack partly because the tickets are changeable before travel begins. We booked a roomette on both legs of the trip (in will take 23 hours to reach Chicago from Fort Worth Texas) for less than the price of airfare. Sleeping quarters and meals included.

Welcome to the Navy way of life...flexibility thrown in with a sense of humor is so important. Both the son and daughter did the year long DEP process. M's mom, I am like you--a planner--but oh boy have I had to learn patience and to be flexible. I was on Active Duty(I am a Navy Reservist) when number one son called a said "Mom, my July ship date has been change" "To what day?" says I. "Tomorrow!" I was able to get my CO(commanding officer) to let me go so I could at least see him off at MEPS that following morning. Rule number one for me...never cry in uniform. It was sooo hard.

Comment by KristinaR(Divison 285) on July 12, 2010 at 4:02pm

that would be a great idea. The badges and sashes. We have sometime to think about what we are going to do then. It is up to everybody else on what they would like to do.

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