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Comment by Diana (Proud Navy Mom) on November 10, 2011 at 3:00pm

Miss everyone on here!  Hope your new sailors are doing well!!

Comment by diannep on October 31, 2011 at 3:08pm

Leaving this group now...congrats to all of your wonderful new sailors!  Blessings in their future Navy adventures!

Comment by Kimmy's Momma on October 31, 2011 at 12:24pm

Melissa, you are AWESOME! Thank you for everything you did for us! We were flying high when we got those videos! Josh looks FANTASTIC! I tried to comment on the album Michelle posted, but it wouldn't allow me. I'm sooooo sorry for all the mishaps. ;( 0n a positive note, you got to see your handsome young man graduate from bootcamp & sent him on his journey to began yet another new phase of his life! Much luck & love to you, Josh & your entire
family. <3

Comment by navmomtera on October 31, 2011 at 11:13am

The drive was long (20 hours each way, including stops) but was sooooo very worth it!  Wish I could have gotten the day off today but on the upside I am showing off my son's pics to anyone who will look! hahaha!!

Comment by MELISSA74(ship07/div357) on October 31, 2011 at 10:58am

He is in Pensacola. There was a good number of sailors that graduated this week with him. Yes you may have had the right idea with driving.

Comment by JamieKaye on October 31, 2011 at 10:39am

My goodness this weekend was amazing!

Comment by jacketfan24 (corpsman mom) on October 31, 2011 at 7:51am

Melissa74...so sorry you had such a bad trip.  The worst part of ours was driving rather than flying, but now maybe that was a good thing?  Just about anything was worth seeing our sailors, though.  I've missed mine so much.  But I'm so proud of the man he's become.  Still can't believe you paid that much for a rental car.  We only paid $229 and drove it over 2000 miles.  We rented from Hertz, though.  Will take your advice and stay away from Budget! 

Good luck on your son's next  adventure...where does he go for school? 

Comment by MELISSA74(ship07/div357) on October 30, 2011 at 10:31pm

Hi everyone! Just getting in from the airport. I am soooo glad to be home. My trip was not good! The only good part was seeing my sailor and all his new friends. We missed our flight to Chicago on Thursday so had to sit all day in the airport with the kids , hubby, mom in law and sons girlfriend all day on stand by. Finally made it to Chicago  about 8 Thursday night. Only to arrive and get charged $200 more for my rental car than what I was told. Yes i paid almost $500 for a rental car but I was so exhausted by that point ( and we still had an hours drive ahead)  that I didnt care. Dont EVER rent from Budget rental car. In my deleria on Thursday night I set my clock for 5:45 for Friday morning instead of 4:45. Since we had gotten in so late Thursday night I hadnt had time to unpack so besides running around like a mad woman I was now going through suitcases to find everything. BEST part of my trip PIR and seeing my handsome son!!! I couldn't be prouder. Thought I would get to look around and meet a few people but even getting there a little after 7 it was packed and I couldn't get up and manuever around. Anyways glad to be home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by KimberlyAnn on October 30, 2011 at 2:57pm

just wanted to thank you all for your support and kind words throughout our journey at bootcamp. I am grateful for the advice we received on PIR and look forward to sharing our experiences. My son paid for and we received the photo's the day before we left for PIR, we will get the DVD in the mail when it's edited. I definitely recommend paying for the photo's and having them sent home prior to PIR, it saved us from standing in line at the NEX at RTC, along with 500+ other Sailors and their families, we traveled to the other NEX on base at Great Lakes Naval Station to do some shopping for our propoganda, we had been there with our military ID's when we got there on Thursday, so we already got we wanted, but it gave the grandparents time to do some shopping. We would definitely park at the train station again, it was a short walk in, and when PIR was over we traveled by train into to city, he wanted a steak for lunch. When we got back we drove him around to the other gate to check in, parked in the NEX lot and said good bye. We knew he was leaving at 12:30am for MDW and we are so very glad we got there at 1:30am, we brought donuts for them and helped talk them through what to take on the plane with them, we saw so many parents who didn't make it on time, thinking they had more time then they did to see them off, some were running phones in and barely got a hug outside before their Sailor had to leave. There was no clear direction as to where to go when we got there to say good bye, but when we walked in it was a sea of black, so we couldnt miss them, got our gate pass and hugged our Sailor for the last time as he boarded his flight to San Antonio. He made it safely to San Antonio and we made it home on earlier flight due to snow in Pa. So so so nice to have a connection with him again. Thank you again for all your support and  the connection we shared throughout this journey, I look forward to continuing the relationships we've developed and supporting each other through the next step. I will check in here from time to time, but will focus on the 10.28 PIR graduates at A school in San Antonio and the Corpsman mom groups as well as FB. I can always be reached via PM. Warm wishes!

Comment by diannep on October 30, 2011 at 11:50am

Kimmy'sMomma:  Yes, be sure to call and order the PIR DVD.  It is $29, I think.  Well worth it to me.  That was the only way I saw my sailor during PIR...on the DVD...since I never could spot him during PIR! 

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