Ship 14 Division 218 - PIR 11 July 2014

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Permalink Reply by Lee Aldriedge on June 1, 2014 at 11:50am

My sons PIR date is July 11th but he is in Division 815. Got the surprising phone call as well. Good to hear his voice and we can't wait to see him graduate. Good luck to your daughter.

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Permalink Reply by David M. on June 5, 2014 at 12:51pm

My son also has same graduation date, but division 816.  No phone call yet, but hoping for this weekend. Not sure what a push division is.  

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Permalink Reply by Richard on June 5, 2014 at 2:49pm

My son is in Division 816 as well.  Haven't received a phone call or a letter from him personally as of yet.  We did get the form letter indicating his address.  My wife and I have written about ten letters between the two of us.  As Eric stated, a push division has to be "hurried" to get caught up.  Doesn't sound like the best position to be in to me.  Good luck to all of you.

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Permalink Reply by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on June 5, 2014 at 2:53pm

when you are puzzled by a term, try the Google-based search in the lower right of each page...I just did a "push division" search and found 723 posts in NavyDads about that term.....

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Permalink Reply by Richard on June 6, 2014 at 12:10pm

We got two letters from our recruit yesterday.  They were both positive and informative.  He indicated that something was wrong with their mail box so only he and one other recruit had received mail.

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Permalink Reply by David M. on June 7, 2014 at 11:43pm

Richard, my son's letter came in Thursday as well (Div 816).  Was thrilled to see it.  He said the first time he had to write was the previous Sunday.   My son talked about the mail we sent, so he must be the other one.  Hope they get that fixed for everyone else.  Fingers crossed we get first call tomorrow. 

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Permalink Reply by David M. on June 10, 2014 at 6:12am

....and last night, the first call!! Very nice!  Got to talk for about 40 minutes then "I gotta go, they're yelling at us."

Also found out the mail incident, I guess someone put the incoming mail in the outgoing mail box which was locked so they couldn't get it. They had to drill through the lock, then on the next inspection the inspector wasn't too happy about the missing lock on the mail box. 

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Permalink Reply by Richard on June 10, 2014 at 7:05am

My son called us yesterday. First my wife and then me.  He said he had ten minutes.  It was great to hear from him.  He didn't come right out and say it but I can tell he's a little homesick.  Of course we miss him too.  In my letters I have been telling him about various runs I've been going on and he said he really misses going with me.  We're looking forward to doing more of that in the future.

 I hope everyone else received calls as well.

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