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Ship 11/180 Moms AFTER Bootcamp
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Moms/Wives of 11/180: We were great support for each other during boot camp. Let's keep in touch and update each other on how our sailors are doing. PIR was awesome, but liberty was too short.
Website: http://11/180 AFTER
Members: 10
Latest Activity: Dec 2, 2016
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Comment by laurelbc 11/180 on June 3, 2011 at 8:56pm
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Momma, thanks for the photo. Is it entirely too late to buy the DVD? The Nex area that handled that was closed when I got there. I would love to know if anyone has a catalogue. Julie, I'm sure JD had respect he learned at home. The Navy just reinforced it. Strangely, I met up with a few hostile characters at the airport too. It did not endear Chicago to me.
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Comment by MommaCindy(Ship 11 Div 180) on June 3, 2011 at 8:44pm
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Did anyone go to the Nex and buy the Navy photo frames or get a catalog? We didn't make it to the Nex due to time constraints. I didn't purchase the DVD either. I am so bummed.
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Julie, I just missed you. We were on the other side of the aisle from the CHP guy. We probably saw each other, but I think you said you looked like Popeye with a pipe :) Did not see Popeye (lol).
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Moms, we have knuckleheads in my son's A school too. Apparently the weekend our PIR guys arrived, some other sailors newly in residence were drunk and on the beach. I remember hearing about trouble causers in boot and now there they are at A School. It takes all kinds apparently. The whole A school is being punished by having to wear "peanut butters" every day. Hope it's an isolated incident.
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Janh and OMG, I saw you at graduation but I didn't have time to say hello. Jan you were right behind the 4 in my Jeff's group and Dani you were 2 rows ahead of us. We were doing the bleacher shuffle right up untill the time Grad started, I guess that's what we get for sitting near the aisle.
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Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on June 1, 2011 at 3:46pm
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No...sadly not.
It WAS his day off though. So we coordinated the times (he is eight hours ahead) and he called during lunch and was able to speak with his new Sailor.
I keep forgetting that we are a 2 blue star flag family (for now). Have to get a new flag!
I bought him Navy Dad stuff too. He loves hoodies!
I was sitting behind a gentlman in a campaign hat. I believe it was law enforcement.
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Comment by janh on June 1, 2011 at 2:05pm
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Here was the response I got from RTC on the newspaper notice:
"The recruits are given the opportunity to complete a Fleet Hometown News agency form during boot camp. Those forms are sent to Fleet Hometown News agency who, in turn, sends the information to the newspaper(s) in the recruits' zip code(s).
We recommend you contact your local newspapers to find out what their turnaround time is for receiving and publishing military news items."Hope this helps!
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Julie-I loved your post.
janh-thank you it would be great to find out!
Love the pics that are coming up!
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Hi all. Well it looks like everyone had a fantastic time at PIR. I wish we would have had a little more time with our son (just Thursday until 6:00 pm), but he is loving Groton and had liberty for the weekend there so he was able to get settled and check things out.
I believe I read somewhere in these N4M or FB posts that the Navy sends the information to the sailor's local newspaper. I will post a question on the RTC main page and see if I can get some info and will get back to you all.
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