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Alumni PIR 10/14/2011 TG 48 - 11 DIVISIONS (341 - 348, 820 - 821 & 948)

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This group is for the families and loved ones of those who will graduate boot camp on 10/14/2011. We are here to support and comfort each other durring the weeks to come and to encourage all. Hopefully we can meet up at PIR

Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
Members: 99
Latest Activity: Sep 17, 2019

Welcome to PIR 10/14/2011

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You need to be a member of Alumni PIR 10/14/2011 TG 48 - 11 DIVISIONS (341 - 348, 820 - 821 & 948) to add comments!

Comment by Sandy's_sailor son on September 5, 2011 at 7:36pm: LaLa, what a beautiful wedding. Bride and Groom look so happy.

Comment by diannep on September 5, 2011 at 6:50pm: Wow, Lala. What a journey for your sailors! I sure hope that they can work something out. Nothing like life hitting you square in the face....right after your wedding! I'm so sorry....but hopeful that it will be a life lesson that they can share with others in the same position one day.

Yes, I knew that "Lee" was the deliverer of the rain. Sure hope it isn't as much as they think.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on September 5, 2011 at 5:23pm: They are on their way back now. The insurance co is giving them a hard time saying they didn't have rental insurance. It doesn't help that their office is not open today. It cost them almost $400.00 to rent a car for one day. Party because they had to rent from an Airport on a holiday, they are both under 25 and also because the rental is one way to be returned in VA. I hope the Ins co will help them out tomorrow. I am not sure how they are going to get to work considering they work the same shift on different bases, each in the opposite direction of the other. I will just be glad to hear from them and know they made it home safely. I felt really bad for his mom when she heard they had been in a car accident she was shaking uncontrollably and wouldn't believe they were okay until she saw them herself. Poor thing, you can imagine how hard that would be for her.

And oh, the rain.... we are getting this from the storm that hit Gulf of Mexico. We are supposed to have steady hard rain and flooding through Thursday. We always get quite a bit of rain. Enough that our county is one of only 2 places in the continental US that is considered a rain forest. So we almost always have plenty. But when I bought this house 2 yrs ago the driveway was not properly graded and it needs about 5 grand to fix it right. So we have to keep a trench dug to help drain the water or else we get about 10 inches at our front steps. And as they say, life goes on lol.

Comment by diannep on September 5, 2011 at 12:03pm: Lala: I sure hope you get just enough rain for the flowers/plants and not so much as to affect your driveway! Did your sailors get back ok?

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on September 5, 2011 at 10:32am: Happy Labor Day everyone, I hope you all have a wonderful day off and I hope you are not in the path of all this rain. We are supposed to get around 10 inches and we spent the day yesterday working on the driveway hoping it doesn't wash into the front yard :-(

Maybe you all will get a couple of really good letters this week since they had 2 days of holiday routine :-)

Comment by diannep on September 4, 2011 at 1:33pm: Diane: There used to be a place called LockNGo to rent lockers for GL A School, but they closed down, like Lala said. I believe there may be some lockers located on the base itself, but not sure. He may find this out when he moves over there. We have not been made aware that there is another locker location off base.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on September 4, 2011 at 12:46pm: Iam sure they will be just as beautiful :-) I told my daughter she should wear her dress white uniform and him the dress blues lol. She disagreed and I am glad she did.

The lockers that used to be there are no longer there. They closed down. Not sure exactly why but they are no longer in business. Sorry.

Comment by proud2baNavyMom on September 4, 2011 at 12:26pm: Lla your daughter and son-in-law are in my prayers. Thanks for the pics she is beautiful and he is a very handsom sailor. Hope my SR and future daughter-in-law look as great when they marry.

Comment by ProudSailorMom on September 4, 2011 at 11:31am: Our son is also going to A school at GL. Somewhere I saw a place within walking distance to GL that rents lockers. I am planning on putting the stuff that he wants in a locker.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on September 4, 2011 at 11:22am: I promised to post pics so here you are lol. My daughter's wedding was beautiful. I am waiting on the good pics from the photographer but I will add a couple that I took to this message. Right after the wedding she and her husband were in a car accident and totaled their vehicle. They are both fine, only a few bruises and the lady who hit them was taken to the hospital and released but she is going to be fine too. Please keep them all in your prayers. We are off now to try and help them get a rental car because they have to go back to VA tomorrow. Thanks everyone, all my friends on this site mean the world to me :-)