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Alumni of PIR 10/07/2011 TG 47 (Divisions 329-340 & 947)

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This group is for those who have loved ones who graduated from Boot Camp on 10/07/2011.

Tags: October 7, 2011; Oct. 7, 2011; 10/07/11; 10/7/11; 10/7/2011; 10/01/2011; 10-7-11; 10-07-11; 10-07-2011; 10-7-2011; Oct

Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 134
Latest Activity: Aug 17, 2019

Welcome to all Anticipating PIR 10/7/2011!!

This group is for those with loved ones who had PIR on 10/07/2011. (PIR is short for Pass-in-Review and just means graduate from Boot Camp.)

It was an amazing ceremony, an amazing opportunity to see our Sailors perform and participate as an entire group, amazing to hear that wonderful Liberty call and completely overwhelming to get those long awaited hugs.

It is our desire that this Group will provide the information, encouragement, and support you need while your loved one continues their Navy Journey. We are hoping you will continue to come back and update everyone on that journey and continue to seek support and encouragement from friends you have already made here.

Enjoy your time here and feel free to Comment and join in the Discussions. Be sure to check out the information in the "Pages" section to the right. This is information that will be of interest to all Members. (You will need to click on "View All" to see all of them.)

Please review the Community Guidelines and keep OPSEC in mind when you post. If you would not want an enemy to know something, then do not post it here because this is NOT a secure site and the enemy lurks. Please do not post your Sailor's last name and NEVER his/her full name. Also do not use your full name, especially if your last name is the same as your Sailor's. If your Sailor provides specific information about events that will occur, please keep that to yourself and do not post the day/time on here since this information may be sensitive and is not to be shared.

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Comment by Vuke's Mom on September 30, 2011 at 1:22pm: My son has played the trombone for years, but didn't tell anyone when he got to BC. I kinda wish he had......

Comment by darlene8993 on September 30, 2011 at 12:56pm: KathyMmom, I'm surprised by that too! I will be quiet.... I hope we can enjoy the Triple Threat 947 Division perform! :) My SR sings in the choir.

Comment by jbsgirl1417 on September 30, 2011 at 12:50pm: Dsmom, what an amazing son you have! I love, love, love hearing stories like this.
My daughter got a lot of negativity from her band director and she told him, "That's ok, thanks to me and others like me, you have the freedom to voice your opinion, no matter how uninformed it is." This is also the same band director who took over after hers retired and didn't like that the original one put her in as a drum major and so he never let her conduct the band really. And now she is the drum major for her division!!!!!! Gotta love the irony!

Comment by Dsmom (Ship 09, Div 332) on September 30, 2011 at 12:44pm: Vuke's Mom - my son had a similar experienc at school. A fellow student told him he was nuts for wanting to join the Navy and defend this "rotten" country. The kid went on and on on how horrible our country is. My son stayed calm and when the ranting was over, he simply stated "I am proud to join the Navy to defend your right to talk so stupid. I hope someday you grow up and appreciate what you have."

Thanks to all of you who have served our country, and thanks to our SR's!

Comment by jbsgirl1417 on September 30, 2011 at 12:42pm: Kathy, Yes I remember you writing about your Dad before and what you passed on to your son! Good for you and thank you for doing that and raising a Son who felt the call! Not many do....I truly believe it takes a special spirit to hear that call and I pray daily for our men and women in uniform! Your dad is with him and will always be with him! He will be watching next Friday!!!!! Your son has the watch now!!!! And I sure your dad feels it is in good hands!

Vuke's Mom- Good for you! I have had some make negative comments about "letting" my daughter join the Navy....like I really had a choice. Yes I signed the papers when she was 17 but if I hadn't she would have just done it on her own at 18. It was not an issue anyway. I was completely behind her decision!

I am so proud of all of our sons, daughters, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, moms and dads! They are such an amazing group of people! I have a hard time sometimes putting myself into that group even though I served.....it was just something I was compelled to do. I knew I needed to do it and I am glad I did but ....I dunno, it can be hard to explain sometimes. I didn't do it for the recognition or the thanks or any of that....I did it just to serve my country as so many before me did! I love my country and I wanted to protect her and keep her free! When I asked my daughter why she wanted to serve, her answer was very similar. She told me she has felt that pull for as long as she can remember. Part of me wanted to say that it was because she grew up in a military family but that's not really it. My sisters also grew up in the same environment I did, but they didn't feel it. I have six children and so far my daughter is the only one who has felt it. My son, who is also 18, was going to go in but not for the same reasons my daughter was. It was just a means to an end for him. He didn't have the same passion as she did. To him, it would have been a job. Which there is nothing wrong with that. Just that he didn't truly feel the call. One of my other daughters talks about possibly going into the military but not like my oldest did. I don't know. Some of us hear it, some of us don't.

Comment by Mary...Brittsmom on September 30, 2011 at 12:36pm: Good for you Vuke's mom.. I have not spoken to my parents since my daughter left...They do not support her decision and don't know why I "let" her go. As if I had a choice in the matter. This is my daughters life, and I am along for the ride. I am so very humbled by this generation of young people that are willing to defend our nation. I don't have room in my life for negativity. Thanks to all who are making this sacrifice!

Comment by Vuke's Mom on September 30, 2011 at 12:30pm: Thank you and your family for your service.

When my son was leaving for boot camp, I had a "friend" tell me I was nuts for letting my son join. She went on and on about how messed up our country is. I could only take so much and said, "you know, it's people like my Son, who are willing to risk their lives so you can have your opinion without the worry of being drug into the street and shot in the head"

I haven't spoken to her since.

Comment by KathyMmom on September 30, 2011 at 12:29pm: I loved your comment too jbsgirl. And first of all - thank you and your family for your service! I also have a long family history of military service. One of the letters I wrote to my son, I talked to him about how amazing it is that he is walking on the same ground as his grandfather did so many years ago. My father was a corpsman in WWII, Korea, and also served in a different capacity in Vietnam. 32 years of his life he gave. I wish with all my heart my dad could be with us next Friday. It will be the one thing that might make my heart break just a bit. My son never got to know his grandfather, but I see the same strength and integrity in my son as I did in my dad. They are both my heros and always will be.

Comment by jbsgirl1417 on September 30, 2011 at 12:17pm: Vuke's Mom, you sound a lot like me....Being in the military is almost a tradition in my family. Every male on my dad's side of the family has been in the military for as far back as we can track it which we know that ancestors of mine fought in the Revolutionary War. Both of my grandfather's were in the Army during WWII. My Dad (Air Force) and my uncles were in Vietnam. My oldest brother was in Desert Storm (Navy). I was in during 9/11 and Operation Iraqi Freedom as was my husband (both Navy). My second youngest brother is still active duty Navy and my youngest brother just got out of the Marines last December. I was the 1st female and my daughter is the 2nd. I am also a disabled vet (not severely....not 100% just 20%).

Comment by Vuke's Mom on September 30, 2011 at 12:12pm: mine too. As the daughter of a retired Army Major, sister to an Air Force Lt Col, Wife of a disabled Navy vet and mom of a SR, I'm right there too!