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August 11, 2015 Leaving for BC
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Permalink Reply by Nikmama on
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Oh good. Will you keep me posted when you get letters and calls please. Or anything that happens. See my most recent post for an explanation.
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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piglet's recruit could be in the same division as your recruit or in the brother division with your recruit or in an entirely different division. Those in the same division will train together and make most calls on the same day. Those in brother divisions will train together, but they may not always make calls on the same day. Those in other divisions in the same TG could be on a totally different schedule as far as training depending on when the division forms even when some of the recruits arrived on the same day as those in another division in the same TG. Some recruits who arrived on the 11th may even have PIR a week apart if some filled a division from last week's TG and some from this week's TG, which happens for those arriving at the beginning of the week.
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I'm new to these forums, groups,& blogs and don't understand how they work.....my daughter is the one that would help me but she's at boot camp :(. How do I reply to something someone specifically said?
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Click "Reply" under the reply you want to Reply to as you have been doing.
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Permalink Reply by piglet on
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Good night ladies - they start day 3 tomorrow! Sending positive thoughts their way.
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On Children by Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness. For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
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The reason I ask if all of you have recruits at Great Lakes & if they just left yesterday is because I want to have a few people that I can keep in contact with to keep me up on when you are receiving calls or letters or anything like that. If you remember, my daughter won't speak to us so she probably won't send anything to us. We didn't get the "I'm here" call but when I saw your kids had called you then I started calling all the people she was always with to see who got it! Just wanted to make sure she had gotten there! So if you all could tell me when you get letters and/or phone calls then I can contact everyone here and see who got it so I can keep updated. I'm sure they won't reach out to me to keep me informed but I'm surly going to call them & find out what's happening in my daughter's life!
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Hopefully someone will share her address and PIR date with you and you will be able to join the PIR group. After all of the divisions for the TG are known, there will be a discussion in the PIR group for the division and it's brother division unless your recruit is in a 900 division and then the discussion will just be for the 900 division.
If you do receive her address, be sure that you send encouragement to her and don't go on about the rift since she doesn't need extra stress. If she chooses to send The Form Letter, someone will receive it around the end of next week.
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What is TG? That's not on the list you sent me to go to. So if we aren't the 4 names she puts down to watch her graduate, are you saying there is a location where a whole group of people go and the recruits will come to us after the ceremony? basically if she doesn't invite us we were going to go anyway and support her, but we hoped we would at least get to SEE her if we travel that far.
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TG is Training Group and it is in What does ??? mean? (A Guide to Navy Abbreviations and Terminology).
TG: Training Group; the group of all the recruits in all of the Divisions that will have PIR together. TG 01 is the training group that begins training the first week of October when the Navy fiscal year begins. A TG can have as few as 4 to as many as 16 divisions. There could potentially be 52 TG's in a year since there are 52 weeks in a calendar year, but the RTC skips about 4 weeks each year. When a week is skipped, the next TG number is advanced to catch up with the week of the fiscal year either immediately or at some point soon after that so that there are times when consecutive TG's do not have consecutive numbers. See Ship/Division--How it Works for more information.)
If you are not on the Access List and you choose to go to GL in hopes of seeing her, you will need to stay in the hotel and watch the Livestream and try to meet up with her later. See the info on that in PIR Day and Liberty During PIR Weekend. No, if you were by some chance to be able to go to the Chapel, then you would not be escorted to a place where she would HAVE to go through and you could go there and NEVER see her other than in the Livestream. The Chapel is not always available.
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