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Division 86 - Share the news
This will be a great place to share the news for our SRs in Division 86. As we get letters or phone calls you can share the news with other moms/wives/gfs. Be careful what you post though....we don't want to cause any extra issues for our SRs...I am sure they will be causing enough on their own as they figure things out.
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Permalink Reply by deemac on
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I heard about the colors also. But I have no idea of how we find out what their color is.
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Is anyone planning on going to any of the Meet and Greets that they have the night before PIR for families.
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Permalink Reply by bahkmom09/86 on
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Good morning ladies....
We received a letter yesterday from our son. He said that they had lost 2 from the division....one for medical reasons and the second because basic became too much for him. That is sad. He said their division flag was going to be real "crazy"! Other than that it sounds like things are going well.
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Permalink Reply by MEJ on
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ok ladies, we need to start a discussion. Color choice for scarves for PIR... I am fine with any color.
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Permalink Reply by zStratMom on
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Hi, Div 86 - I'm loving your posts on calls and letters. Be sure to see if you can get a firm BS21 date from your SRs!
I'm a 2x Navy Mom and am helping one of the other moms in this PIR organize "Scarf colors" . . . do you want to do this? If so, I'll be maintaining a list for you in the larger group. Ping me when you choose! I see you have some veteran moms in your division who can explain this activity further.
Feel free to connect - I'll help if I can. : )
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MEJ - your division can either post their color discussion in the one you set up OR here in the regular discussion. NO RULES, just FUN ;-) What I'm doing is collecting the info for all divisions and posting in one place.
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OK, I guess I misunderstood. I thought the SR's chose the colors for their DIV. I thought we were trying to match them. So if that is not the case, it doesn't matter to me. I thought I read somewhere that the 900 Divs wear gold. If the family picks the colors how do we know that we don't pick the same color as another DIV.
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hi, deemac! check the ALL DIVISIONS discussion post on the PIR GROUP page. As divisions choose, I will update there. Also - the 900 divisions wear a goldenrod color scarf for performing. Your group can choose this or a similar color to match them. To see just what this looks like, go check out some of the photos posted in our recent 2/10 PIR group, or go to the RTC site on Facebook.
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Permalink Reply by 0309mom on
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I am in on the colors scarf with everyone but I think we need to decide so thatwe can get the word out. How do you all feel about red.
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Permalink Reply by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on
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Permalink Reply by crlmltn Delete
I have only received the one letter from my son. I am starting to worry that something is wrong and that is why he is not writing. I know that everyone says no news is good news, but that is a contridiction if you ask me because I hear that they also have to earn the phone call and letter time. Do you think that any of you could get a message to your SR and ask them to tell ********to write home and fill us in on what is going on. Mention I don't want him to get in trouble, just put a bug in his ear. I don't understand why he is not writing. I don't know if he is having problems and not wanting to tell us, if he is sick, etc. I would really appreciate some how getting a message to him/ i write him everyday and ask him to write me, but nothing. I have sent paper and self addressed and stamped envelope. I don't know what else to do. Please help.
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