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Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak
All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.
Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
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Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
Be sure to click on "View All" at the bottom and to the right of the list of discussions, so that you will see them all. YMM
Be sure to follow OPSEC rules when posting any comments. See details below. YMM
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Lemonelephant: Can you elaborate on the "note card" suggestion for flight information. I am a little confused exactly what that means.
thanks!
mom2e, here is the link to Lalas page message her and she will send you the information.
http://www.navyformoms.com/profile/Lala?xg_source=profiles_memberList
I spent all day at O'Hare with my daughter. If you get there when they check in, you can get a pass to get through security and sit with them until their flight leaves. I was there at 5:30 AM and her flight didn't leave until 4:30 PM. It was worth it!
Thank you for your help. We are hoping for an airport delivery of his cell phone so hanging out at the airport would be fine with us.
Sandymomto3, only your Sailor will know his particular flight details. Know that even Sailors who are going to the same A School may be on different flights or fly from different airports depending on flight availability. Sailors usually fly out on Saturday, but flight availability issues could cause a Sailor to fly out on Sunday instead. Also, all of the Sailors are taken to the airport at the same time regardless of flight time, so your Sailor could be at the airport for a short time or several hours. If you are able to fly out on Sunday, then do so that you will have the most time with your Sailor. Send your SR a note card to write down the flight details for you and give to you after PIR.
Looking for info from any parents that had a SR graduate(recently) that headed to Charleston after PIR. Our PIR date is 10-5 and we are trying to arrange our departure flights and are torn between Saturday evening or Sunday. Any feedback would be great. Thanks.
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Also, we took the shuttle to graduation instead of driving, the car line was so long, by the time we got there we were maybe 15 feet from the gate because the shuttle was so much quicker! We also dressed nicely. His mom and dad were in slacks and nice shirts, and I wore dress capris and a nice dress shirt. I wore some dress sandals as well because we were told we would do a lot of walking that day. I highly recommend wearing some comfortable, but dressy, shoes. If you are comfortable wearing heels go for it, but if it's not your normal type of shoe doooon't do it lol. His mom had nice shoes but they weren't what she normally wears and she got some blisters by the end of the day =(.
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