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April 7 bootcamp

                   My son got into bootcamp on tuesday night april 7th. We were naturally happy to hear that he made it safely. However, we got the call at 9:19pm. Everything that we have read and heard gave us the impression that we would get the

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LIBERTY AFTER GRADUATION

MY SON CALLED SAID THEY MIGHT BE ABLE AFTER GRADUATION AND CK IN TO HIS A SCHOOL AT GREAT LAKES BE ABLE TO BE CHECKED OUT FOR LIBERTY ALL WEEKEND AND NOT HAVE TO GO BACK TIL SUNDAY NIGHT OR MONDAY BEFORE 600 IS THIS TRUE HAS ANYBODY ELSE HEARD ?

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Division graduation at PIR

My son is scheduled to graduate on February 27th, 2015.  He called the other day all stressed out that he may not graduate on that date due to 'too many goof-offs' in his division.  Will he be able to graduate if there are too many of them?  Or will

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Battle Stations 21

I was wondering if there is some sort of schedule they do Battle Stations?  Do they do it by division in sequential order, do they put all the division in all at once, or the divisions randomly?

This is my sons last week in Boot Camp, and his mom an

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The Journey Begins

Well the journey has begun for our son. He shipped yesterday to begin his adventure in the Navy. He is continuing the family tradition as I am a retired Navy with 21 years of service and my wife is prior Navy and is currently still Active Air Force R

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Ship 13 Div 057

Finally spoke to our son Robert today. We missed his 2nd call at week 4. His PIR date is 1/9/15.  He sounds really good and confident in his division for the confidence chamber and Battle Stations!  We are so proud of our SR and can't wait to fly out

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Lessons learned from boot camp

My son just graduated Friday December 12th. One of the proudest moments of my life. He's my only child, it was hard to see him off. Now that PIR is over and for those who are new, here are a few tips: 1) they are in the best of hands, millions have

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I NEED HELP...

My daughter made it almost all the way through bootcamp, the only things she didn't do were Battlestations and graduate. Her problem was that she couldn't pass the run for the PFA test and while in the FIT program she got bronchitis. She was given ti

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Missed a phone call today!!

Man!! Missed a call today from my son! Who calls on a weekday at 2:20pm when their Dad is running a Bobcat and cant here his phone ring!! Lol! Got a nice message from him. It seems his Division has made a big turn around and are excelling as a Team!

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Got a phone call YEA!!!!!!

My daughter left oct 6th and PIR is Dec 5th.  She called me yesterday while i was at work for some information.. I was so pumped to get to talk to her. She is doing great and loving it.  That really put this father at ease.. I can now sleep better at

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Bring On The Next Adventure

I just wanted to write a quick note to say a huge THANK YOU to those running this site. We attended my daughter's graduation this past weekend...HOOYAH Div 949!! The advice and tips that we received here were worth a million bucks. Everything from wh

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SR Not Passing PFA

HI. My daughter did not pass her las PFA prior to PIR.  She called home an told us she would be moved to another ship.  I wanted to know what happens next. Does she move directly to her "A" School or does she graduate with another class. Any infomrat

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Under the radar...

My son is in Ship 11, DIV 355. PIR Date of 11/07/2014. This is a particularly quiet group. Haven't read much, if anything about their progress on here... Does anyone else on here have a son/daughter or husband/wife in this group?

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