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My boyfriend left for basic a few weeks ago but i don't know anything about the graduation and how long i will get to spend time with him. I heard for one person that they only have 8 hours to spend with family but he told me they would have three days. I really want to know how long I will have with him!!!!
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Permalink Reply by abuon18 on
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You're in the right place.
So PIR takes place on Friday morning. Then if he is staying in Great Lakes for his A school, he will have to go back to base and move his stuff to the other base. Takes a few hours but he will call you when he is done and you can pick him up. Curfew is around 10 but could have changed from a year ago. Anyway you have to have him back to his barracks by then. Sat & Sun, he will call you EARLY (like 6 or 7 am) to pick him up for the day, same thing, you have to have him back by curfew.
If he is going ANYWHERE else for A school you will be able to spend time with him all day Friday after PIR (still have to have him back by curfew). Then he'll fly out on Saturday most likely and he will leave for the airport around midnight. You can go to the airport and get a gate pass and spend time with him until his flight leaves!
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Permalink Reply by Jenn_NicksWifey on
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Do you know when his graduation is? There are PIR groups on here for each PIR date. It's really a great idea because you all are going through almost exactly the same things at the same times. Moms, wives, girlfriends, fiances all become really close. Everyone shares things in their letters and when phone calls start everyone gives a heads up.
I don't know what I would have done without my PIR group. Turned out one of the wives from my husband's brother division was at the recruiters' at the same time as we were, when they left. They live (lived, she just moved to SC with him for nuke school!) really close to us and we were able to stay in the same hotel at PIR and commiserate/jump for joy together after the boys had to be back for curfew.
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Permalink Reply by navygirl22 on
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i think it will be end of september or early october but i dont know yet. How do you find these groups, i just joined this website.
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Once you or his parents/family receive his form letter, it will have his address and his graduation date. Graduation = PIR. I hope you and his family are on good terms, it'll make life easier on everyone.
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When does that usually come in?
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I got my letter with his address and grad date about the 9th day after he left. Some others whose recruits shipped the same day as mine got their letters earlier and some later. If you have his ship address, it should have come on the same letter as grad date.
Check on Facebook, too, for a "Shippers" page (there are also PIR groups on there). The recruits shipping out with my hubby told me about it. His was May Shippers 2012. A bunch of people who shipped out in May had made a page to get to know one another. Once they all shipped out, the families/loved ones took over the page and gave it back once the new Sailors returned. I saw that there were other pages for different months. I followed in Facebook and Navy for Moms and found that they were both really helpful but were different, too. In NavyforMoms, there is a ton of information, veteran moms giving advice, lots of pages you can jump on for more info, say about your Sailor's rate or A School. Facebook is very social, less information though. Like I said, both were good for me, but if I wanted to know something, I went to N4Ms. I tried to post updates from my Sailor in both places because some aren't on both.
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