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Cell phone carrying on PIR weekend?
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Permalink Reply by Arwen on
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My son will be returning to BC after PIR. Since they will be going to PIR on day 7-1, they may have to finish their training the next week, then ship out to their A-schools.
As I understand it, only Grad-and-Go sailors who have reported to a Great Lakes A school actually get to be free of the SDCs and boot camp rules.
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Okay, I knew all that. So the question is, how may he carry it? Just hold it in his hand all the time?
Oh, and "SDC" was a typo, I meant RDC, LOL. I deal with SDCs at work (system demand charge) and unconsciously switched the two.
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Permalink Reply by shell on
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I hadnt heard the one that they were not allowed to put things in their pockets. My sailor carried his all pir weekend, but tht was over a year ago, maybe things are different.
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My brother had his with him for the 5 days he was with us after PIR. He didn't bring it back to RTC with him, but I guess some guys did and he did end up telling me he could have. I wouldn't recommend it though. I honesly don't know how he carried it all weekend. He was wearing his dress blues. Do they even have pockets? I didn't know about the walk and talk thing before hand and it was hilarious when we got out of the car the first day. He was talking to my sister for the first time since he had left for Great Lakes and all of a sudden he throws the phone and me and says, "You talk to her." I thought she had said something to make him mad until he explained it to me.
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