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At 7:16am on November 4, 2008, Kathy Baker-Robs Mom said…
PIR was AWESOME!!! We parked on base with everyone else. Got there about 730. WEwere directed to go straight to the drill hall. YOUmight have to check in at the visitors center check point. Make sure you bring comfortable walking shoes!! And ID for everyone over 18. No smoking on base of course. There are DIV# signs to sit in the vicinity of that! You wait and wait for the DIV to march in. ITS AWESOME WHEN THEY OPEN THE BIG DOORS!!!!After the divisions march in there is alot of blah blah blah THEN LIBERTY is called. You have 10 minutes to find your Sailor and get outside. Your Sailor will then give you the low down on whats in store for the weekend. There is this thing called Military Bearing. Your sailor has strict rules that he must abide by while in uniform and he promptly told us about it. We went to the Gurnee mall( ITS HUGE!!), to a beatuiful beach in Waukegan/ Beach Park. Its off SHERIDAN and WADSWORTH, on Sherdain BEFORE Wadsworth there is a very nice park little kidos will love. THERE IS OVERNIGHT LIBERTY. IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOUR SAILOR IS DOING!!
At 12:34pm on November 2, 2008, Fred said…
Hello Paul, I got an e-mail from her earlier in the week. She did say she is doing well and hope Eric is to. She is on 5&10's now while she works on some more quals. 5&10's are 5 hours on 10 off so, she is going tpo get pretty tired real quick. As for packages to her, she did tell my wife that she got her package we sent a while ago. My wife also sent her another one with a whole bunch of stuff including homemade chocolate cookies this week so, I guess that will take 3 to 4 weeks to get to her again.

I can certainly say that my son-in-law Rob is missing her greatly and is being kept very busy with his quals and duty rotations on his sub.

Hey, I see that Rams and Cardinals are playing today. I am at home with the animals and my wife is there with her friend that has season tickets. The Rams seem like a different team since they changed coaches. Here's to a good game.

I probably will not be online for awhile in the coming days as we are in the process of moving our company and will be very busy with all the facilities and IT stuff. In fact next Friday night I have to pull an all-nighter so we can move all our servers and have them back online Saturday morning. Oh the fun!!

Well take care and I also hope Eric did well on the exam. Fred
At 4:15pm on October 31, 2008, Brad said…
Paul, I have set up that group for the rescue swimmer dads. If you hear of any looking for a group like that let them know or send out an announcement if you can.

I just heard from him today, his chosen orders to Japan will be for HS-14. He expects to be sent out after the first of the year. He will graduate his final AW school and get his "wings" in Mid Nov. I hope to fly out to San Deigo as he said he would like me to Pin those wings on at graduation. I can't think of a higher honor! Proud? You bet!
Brad
At 1:29pm on October 31, 2008, E.G. - ND's Creator/Admin said…
Paul I'm doing good. I've been really busy the last couple of weeks so I appreciate all you've been doing. We are growing nicely. I like the t shirt idea. I had been working with a graphic designer but he was lazy so I gave up. I wanted to offer shirts like n4m's but it hasn't worked out yet. It would be great advertising for the site. I'll try to do it again later. Thanks again for all you've done.
At 11:33pm on October 30, 2008, Cindy said…
Hi Paul! It has been awhile and having to work for a living does need to change! I'd love to find a job where I can work from home and keep my own hours. I'll be missing a lot of Kelson's tennis tournaments this spring because I'm working. I would love to send cooler weather that way, if I could figure out how to send warmer weather this way at the same time! I just watched the weather...high's in the 40's next week, yuck. I had a member tell me this afternoon that Nov., Dec., Jan., and Feb. are the longest months out of the year. I agree with her. You could head this way for some cooler weather! I keep telling Martin he needs to get a job in the private sector, but he won't listen to me...maybe it has something to do with selective hearing? His job is secure though. Once you get hired on with the state, it's totally impossible to get fired. If he'd go into the private sector, we might be able to retire in Orlando for the winter months! That....would be awesome! Morgan is doing well. He takes test #10 tomorrow morning and told me tonight it's going to be a really hard one. He's been attending the mando studies, on his own, but I'm sure they've helped. He helped 4 or 5 guys pass test 9 on Tuesday, so he was asked to go to mando tonight and help them study. I'm very proud of him. He was never one to study in high school. Well, he'd do the homework but wouldn't turn it in. We haven't figured that one out yet! How's Kathleen doing?
At 3:53pm on October 30, 2008, Craig said…
forgot to tell you she missed live fire last week due to cold..(does everyone get sick up there or what?) but got the make up and scored with marksman status.She can't wait to tell her brother!!
At 3:50pm on October 30, 2008, Craig said…
Paul, we're leaving that up to her...whatever she wants at this point. Her letters are full of pride, some discontent about certain personel (we Meredith's have a high expectation of ourselves!) but all is good and she's prepping for BS next week. I know she'll wants Starbucks immediately though. She's quite the coffee snob...
At 11:37am on October 30, 2008, navydad said…
thank you paul i'm so excited this is my first time for this computer lingo, so bear with me. i want to learn everything i can about the navy. can you tell me anything about what an airman is and what a aviation machinist mate is. i haven't been able to get any details from my sailor yet. sounds exciting though.
At 10:13am on October 30, 2008, Brad said…
Paul, Thank you for the welcome. We all have a story I'm sure, and all proud of our sailor's. Garrett is in the final part of his AW/RSS program in San Diego HS-10. Recently picked his orders and selected Japan. He knew most of his classmates didn't want that so he took it off the table so others could get what they wanted. Two of his buddies followed him for Japan leaving the rest to for sure get what they wanted. He has worked hard to get through RSS in the second hardest program next to the SEALS, and I am proud to help train him, as well as proud of his reslove as one of the smallest (5' 7" 130 lbs) for that job to pass at the top of his class. As he continues, he is passionate of his choice and so looking forward to what adventures are before him to help save our men who are brought down or in need.

I look forward to maybe starting a group for Rescue Swimmers dads.

Brad
At 7:31pm on October 29, 2008, Dave said…
Paul
Just wanted to share that We have finally recieved our first letter from Andrew. He tells us that he is the Starboard Section Leader? Sounds impressive, but keeping in mind that people are selected because they have blue eyes or because they don't have blue eyes, or because they are tall, or short, or because their name is Andrew, or because their name is not Andrew. Anyway, feels great to actually hear from him. Nice to read that he misses us and loves us. Just wanted to share. Thanks Dave
At 9:25pm on October 28, 2008, Dave said…
Paul, THANK YOU! Greg writes like Mickey Spilane. I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to comment me as you have over the last week, and think of me and share the link to Gregs discussion. I am going over to comment to Greg on his discussion. Still waiting to hear from Andrew, Dec. 5th can't get here soon enough. Don't worry about the Army comment. My wife has me wearing a Navy hat to work every day and drinking my coffee out of a Navy travel mug, and opening my office with key on a Navy lanyard. So from an old ground pounders family I am proud to say GO NAVY! Thanks again. Dave
At 3:07pm on October 27, 2008, Sindy said…
Hi Paul ~ Thank you for checking in with me. It's been a while since I've been on. I am without a computer at home for the time being and try to get on at work when I can. Trey is doing well. He graduated from Aircrew School last Thursday and is back waiting to class up to his next phase. How are Eric and Kathleen doing?
At 9:18pm on October 26, 2008, Dave said…
Thanks Paul for the words of encouragement. I know that Andrew can do great things in the Navy, I also know that he is a little older than when some of the self sabatoge that plagued him before. I hope he pushes through and accomplishes all of his goals. It is an adjustment after all of these years the McKee boys have a tendancy to go to the Army back to the Civil War. I did not, I am surprised how supportive my Dad has been of Andrew in the Navy. I will admit that I also encouraged him toward the Navy due to all of the maintenance managers that I know got their start in the Navy. I know that this is the single greatest thing that Andrew has done, his uncle (Army) talked to him about he was starting into something that is bigger than he is. I know that Andrew is learning exactly what his Uncle Jeff was talking about.
At 10:20am on October 26, 2008, Dave said…
Paul yes, not sure how I will handle the PIR, I have a sixteen year old daughter which I have called Princess since she was a few minutes old. I know that I would not handle it near as well. She has done some amazing things, she is a great soccer player and aspires to play soccer at the college level, We have been a Notre Dame family, they have won several lady soccer National Champion Ships. We are about an hour away from ND. My son on the other hand has always done just enough to get by. We would always argue about doing more. He would say why? I was so excited when he joined the Navy because it was the first time in his life that he was talking about the future and not just planning on the next meal. He said he wanted to work and come out of BC as a E2. I have struggled with this for years because I have made a career out of making people do what they don't want to do but was not so successful with my own son. Why is it that I can motivate, through what ever means to get people to work, and yet could not apply those same skills to motivate my own son. Since I have not heard from him I don't know if he is flying under the radar or really doing the things he talked about before he left. I could really care less if he PIR as an E2 as long as he PIR. Anyway, I have rambled on enough, great job as a father on the success of your daughter. I will keep her in my prays. Sincerely Dave
At 9:23am on October 26, 2008, Michele said…
Paul - Yes we are looking forward to the extended holiday, I have officially made the extention to include my grandchild :). How exciting it must be to travel the world in the safety of a Navy ship! Wes says he isn't interested in going on cruises now because of the baby, so he is opting for orders on land hopefully in the US only. He said he already filled out his "dream sheet" and commented 'that is exactly what it is too a dream' hehehe, he doesn't expect to get what he wants fully. He put in for the P-3 Orion aircraft for S. Carolina or Virginia and if he can't get them then his next choice was Washington/Hawai'i. I told him if he doesn't get close to home at least Hawai'i would be like a once in a lifetime vacation :). I told him I won't ever get to see him since I can't drive my car there but I would except lots of pictures!

I am so glad your sailors are doing so well . . .you need to post some pictures of their trips! God Bless, Michele :)
At 3:17pm on October 25, 2008, Dave said…
Thank you for the info. My wife actually got the correct address from the Navymoms site, the form letter we recieved had the wrong (old) address. I understand GL has had a fair amount of expansion and renovation. I think I have sent a letter every day since he has been gone incuding Sat. and Sun. except last week I did mis four days due to working 16 hours a day and adding my one hour commute one way. Can't wait to hear from Andrew and get a clue as to how he is doing. You know he left home talking about doing twenty years, curious to know if he still is fired up for the Navy.
At 8:32am on October 25, 2008, Michele said…
Hey Paul - Wes is doing very good, probably because A-school graduation is right around the corner on Halloween. I spoke with him yesterday and apparently he isn't going to take leave when he gets his orders for his command for C-school. He said he is going to save his time for when his daughter is born sometime in Jan or possibly as early as Christmas :). I would say he is very excited since he is passing up seeing his ole mom for his daughter hehehe. He is almost 21 and I am proud of his decisions, he is thinking everything through so he makes an informed choice. At least I can see him at Christmas if I want to take the trip to cold weather land, Indiana hehe. . .this is where his girl lives. I am so excited too about my first grandbaby so I may skip Christmas to save my money for when the baby arrives and I can see Wes and my grandchild at the same time :).

How are your sailors getting along? How are you doing with the empty nest? God Bless, Michele :)
At 7:00pm on October 24, 2008, Tom McGlew said…
Hi Paul,

Thank for the great welcome message to NavyDads.com. I am looking forward to chatting with you and others in the future as my daughter Kelly begins her new life adventure in the Navy. This is an awesome site and I glad Kelly recommended it me. It will keep us close while she is away serving our country.

You mentioned that you ;ived in College Park Maryland while you were going through school. I lived in Adephi MD. off of Cool Springs Road and University blvd. I used to play on the U. of Maryland's golf course as a kid went to many of their football games with my dad who helped the radio announcers track the ball players. My dad worked for the US Government Printing Office when it was across the street from US Post Office in D.C.

Lets keep chatting if you like and thank your children for their service to this great country of ours.

Kind regards,

Tom McGlew
At 4:21pm on October 23, 2008, Kevin said…
Hey Paul, thanks for the kind words. I love that saying from your son, "warheads on foreheads"! Makes all the aviation mechs and techs proud of doing their part. May the Lord bless Eric on "the big stick", and Kathleen wherever she serves. Thanks for raising two great patriots! Kevin
At 3:46pm on October 23, 2008, Craig said…
no worries mate, this comes out of my mad money...thanks for all that you do!

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