Grad & Go Info
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Formal Navy Portraits - info, prices
Here are the packages, prices and important things to know as of 8/26/10: Your recruits picture will be taken in their Navy Blue uniform and these are very nice, professional portraits. No order form is sent to the families, it's up to the recruit to decide to order them or not, and how…
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USO locations at local airports
Only O'Hare (ORD) and Midway (MDW) have USO centers, the airport in Milwaukee (MKE) does not. The USO at O'Hare is located OUTSIDE of the secured area in Terminal 2 above the Delta Airlines Ticket counter - so anyone can access it. The USO at Midway Airport is located INSIDE of the secured area in…
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Phases of Liberty at A-School
Liberty is different than Leave. Leave is similiar to requesting time off for vacation at work, they must submit a chit and have it approved. Liberty basically means that they have "liberty" to leave the base but they are still "on duty" and cannot travel far and they are still accountable for…
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G&G questions to send your recruit!
This was put together by gigi65 (thanks!). These are the items you will want to mail to your recruit NOW so they can hand you the answers on PIR day. They will not know the exact answers until 1-3 days prior to graduation! Dear (son/daugher),Once you have your plane ticket, complete the answers…
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Grad and Go to A School at Great Lakes, Illinois right after P.I.R.
After PIR 1/21/11 my son moved over to his A school at Great Lakes. He was able to call me to pick him up after he was processed into his new quarters and I met him at the Visitors Center next to the main entrance to the base on Sheridan (St or Ave?) just after dark (1/21/11). Your sailor calls…
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PIR 09-02 - and GnG Lydias story...
Okay - My son is 818 Spec Ops was grad n go.... Here is how it went down... ****foot note on PIR**** - can you say TRAFFIC!!! geeze - I am sooo glad we took the rental car and not the shuttle... we left at 6:15 and still sat in 30/45 min of traffic... the shuttles left at 6:45..... I recommend you…
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Chartered Flight, what to expect....
I wanted to to try and help the families of those who are grad and go with a charted flight. This is a new area and I guess the Navy doesn't charter flights very often. In fact the nice man at the USO said that this is the first time that he knew about. All I can do is share our experience and…
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Grad and Go
Oh Lala, I feel your pain! I cried when I read your posting because we went through the same thing! My younger son and I walked all over that entire airport hoping to find my son. Finally at 0700 we decided it was futile and left. I wanted to cry because I had his things and couldn't give them…
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Ratings & Ranks Info
This was cut and pasted from the Navy's own site (see Hoppi's discussion on this groups page). The word "rate" is used in two ways within the structure. First, rate is a paygrade. Enlisted navy personnel do not have rank, only naval officers. Second, rate is an abbreviation that contains both the…
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CNN video on BS-21
Trying to paste the CNN video about BS-21, hope this works! <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="…
