ALUMNI OF PIR 03/30/2012 TG 20 — 14 Divisions (097–108, 809 & 920)

Calls from 107/108 can come any time!  Being the day before PIR, they usually are allowed to call earlier, but not always.  Safe travel today, ladies!

Safe travels to all of you! Congratulations to the New Sailors!

Sorry been a litle MIA! Forming new PIR group! Woo-Hoo!

Have a blast at your Meet and Greets tonight.

I'll try to check in often. I am in SoCal so on a bit later... if anyone has any last minute questions.

Did I ever post the Maps for RTC? Do you need it? Y'all know it's Gate 8 off of Ohio right?

Hugs to you all!

Oh no! Wow...yikes! Thank you alismz. I will post the Flanagans info right on here:

We have set up a special evening for family members of graduating Navy sailors to spend with other's who are also in the area for the Navy Graduation. Please Join Us each Thursday from 5pm - 9pm, or the day before Graduation for an relaxing evening at Flanagan's where you can converse with others in the area for the same reason, their graduating sailor. Our past meet and greets have been great with 50-100 family members attending.

We have set up a room specificially for the meet and greet, that will have free appetizer buffet and music. You will also receive a $10 gift certifcate for your graduate to have a meal of their choice (steaks and seafood included) after graduation. You can receive the gift certificate at the restaurant at the Meet & Greet or ask your hotel receptionist for one (Red Carpet Inn, Day's Inn, Sleep Inn, Navy Lodge, Great Lakes Motel, and participating Holiday Inn, Mariott, Residence Inn in the Great Lakes, North Chicago and Waukegan area).

The Meet and Greet will includes:

- free appetizer buffet

- music

- Karaoke starting at 8:30pm

- $10 Gift Certificate for navy graduates meal (steak and seafood included)

- $1 Domestic Tap, $2 Import Tap, $2 Domestic Bottle

The Meet and Greet will begin at 5pm each Thusrday, or day before Graduation, and will end around 9pm.

We are located 2 minute drive from the Navy base and in walking distance of Red Carpet Inn, Day's Inn, Great Lakes Motel, and Sleep Inn and a quick 5 minute drive from Fountain Square (Waukegan) hotels.

Thank you for your support. God Bless our troops and much success to them, wherever their paths may lead.

Location: Flanagan's Sports Bar and Grill
Street: 3201 Buckley Rd.
City/Town: North Chicago, IL
Website or Map: http://www.flanagansbar.com/
Phone: 847.689.9062

Got the call! Hoorah!  Congrats, to all. :)

Glad some calls came in!  Have a wonderful time tonight and tomorrow!

Yikes on the fire at the place where Sarge has his MeetNGreet!

I was so busy...I forgot to post that today was the day my son arrived at RTC one year ago...wow.

well a wonderful night had by all despite all the venue changes... was just a small smoke fire, but ALL the sprinklers had kicked in!

hoping to remember lots of kleenex in the morn,  left the bag of our SAILOR's grad gifts at home in MN : (  i guess she will be enjoying our "presence" : )

Up can't sleep excited to see my Sailor in a few hours!

@Steph i know and i have my alarm set but hubby doesn't seem to have any problems snoring!

Hope shuttle riders are on their way now to RTC, and those driving are in the line by now.  Will take a while with so many divisions.  14 divisions is the largest PIR group I have seen since being on here for over 2 yrs!  It will be a PIR hall packed full of excited families and wonderful sailors! 

Enjoy!  And remember those sailors who have no one there for them...they could use a hug and a congrats!  :-)

HOOYAH for the PIR 03/30/2012 group!

Hope you all have a wonderful time at PIR.  

with your brand new sailors!  

virginiagirl:  Too funny!  Yep, every PIR has some dressed like that...my 25 yr old (at the time) son, who was with me, and who is not shocked by much...said, "OMG" as one strolled by (or should I say...strutted!) before PIR started.  I swear...I thought she would fall over and break her ankle...her heels were so tall.  The "people watching" part before PIR was one of our fav parts!  :-)  But happiness and joy was all around you, right?  We LOVED that...such a great time...can't wait to see the piks from this PIR group...know that you had a FULL HOUSE!

Enjoy the rest of the time with your sailors everyone!

And, would love to hear how you all felt about PIR?  Also, we N4Moms veterans (you are all part of this group now, by the way, so join us on the site to help the newbies in the PIR groups)...would love to know if we need to "correct" any of our info.  So please be sure to post on here if something has changed and we are giving out inappropriate info.  Most of our own sailors PIRed a long time ago...and we know there can be changes...so we depend on you all to let us know.  Any info you can post on here --when all settles down-- will be greatly appreciated!

Congrats t each and every one of you, enjoy your SAILORS ! Can not wait to experience it myself!

Happy PIR day! Can't wait to here about your reunion with your new Sailors!

Congrats to those who are now Sailors and their families.  Post pictures.  We want to see!

Today was an AMAZING day.

-Took the free shuttle at Great Lakes Motel at 6:15
-Got to RTC at 6:25 and waited in the cold windy rain... :)

-Seated by 7:20 in the second row! 

-Pass in Review was great! Made me feel so proud of all the sailors who worked so hard the past 8 weeks.
-My sailor and I were out of the gates and back in the shuttle within 20 minutes of liberty being called!!!

Can't wait to spend the rest of the day tomorrow with him :)
Hope everyone else had a great day!!!! 

Now I am just trying to plan how we are getting to downtown Chicago tomorrow... Anyone else planning on going? Wanna give us a ride?! *wink wink* :)

Great day even if we had to wait 4 hours to have liberty with my son, he was waiting on a medical test before he could get his orders.  Now to get some rest before we meet him at O'Hare at 01:00.  I could not of made it with out all the great info on here, Thanks

Anybody got pictures to share yet?  Specifically looking for one of the chorus...

We decided to drive to PIR today and the lines went quick.  We left our hotel at 6:30 am.  My husband dropped us off before entering the parking garage, we got into the walking line and it was a steady stream.  We were able to get great seats and my husband found us right away. Easy-peasy :)  PIR was amazing!

Yes I think I am going to take the train! And for anyone looking for pictures I posted a whole album on my facebook page!

Great piks, ladies!  Hope many of you are spending time with your sailors today---either at the airport or in GL! 

...have a miracle to share, a bad news, good news, great news sort.

... bad news: our SAILOR's flight got changed to Mon and hubby needed to be to be back to work & daughter back to school by then.

...good news:my brother who lives in Wisc is driving a spare car to us so mom & nana can send off our SAILOR to P-Cola.

...great news: since i can drive home a day later, we are able to send off our SAILOR and delivery some "goods" to several others!!! fUn!

1st picture is my son and his girlfriend, the 2nd is the best shot we could get of Div. 100

Great pictures Nuke Mom :) 

PIR was wonderful and i lost it soon as the barn doors opened. Can't sleep because i have to say goodbye again in a few hours but i enjoyed the wonderful weekend we got to share. And just fyi if your Sailor has A school at Great Lakes you can use the parking pass from PIR to get your car on base the whole weekend.  So we were able to drop him off at his ship instead of the gate.

dawny:  Thanks for the parking pass info for GL students!  I had thought that, but wasn't sure.  Now we can pass accurate info onto future groups!  Thanks!

Pictures are great, NukeMom.  Handsome couple!

CaptainFatso:  Too funny about the 2-fisted eating! 

Congrats to all of the new sailors!

alismz:  YAAAAAH!

All those sailors going to Pensacola got their picture taken with Joan Rivers. She went into the USO at Ohare and said she needed to take a picture with sailors.  here is the pic.  Too funny!  I hope I attached it right

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Joan Rivers Tweet about the pic.  Hilarious!

So cute!  One group of sailors in a previous PIR group had theirs taken with Jamie Lee Curtis at the airport...never knew Jamie Lee was so tiny...or our sailors were just BIG! 

@ TeacherMom...you are in luck.  Just uploaded our PIR pics and my hubby got one of the chorus.  Hope you can see your SR.

Oh My!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much Sams mom...................... I SEE my SON........ Brought tears to my eyes, I think the neighborhood heard me scream..................LOL can wait till 4/13/12......

SamsMom...THANK YOU so much.  We can see our son.  You have made my day.  I can hardly type for the tears.