My son leaves tomorrow (5-6) to spend the night in Atlanta, then board a plain headed to Chicago to the RTC. He has wished for this day for several years, but it got here too fast for me! I'm not worried about the training he will go thru. He has bee
Read more…My wife and I just finished a very nice 10-15 minute call with our SR (Ship 12 Div 228) which was surprising since we were not expecting the first call till next week. The official letter we received earlier in the week stated Ship 09 Div 228 but on
Read more…My wife is very worried. As a Navy veteran I understand what he is going to be doing but she is concerned and I don't know what to tell her other than he will be fine. We are very proud of our son but we miss him greatly already.
Read more…He shipped out on May 14th and the letter is dated May 31st. So he's through processing and was about finished with his second week of boot camp when he wrote the letter. For what it's worth, here's the highlights:
He stated that his first two let
Read more…My son just called me after being in boot camp since 5-16-13 and sounded completely defeated, telling me how much he missed all of us and how his training was harder than anything he had ever experienced before. He said the mental aspect of the train
Read more…We got a phone call yesterday around 2:00 PM He said all is well he sounded tired, he said the shots were no fun also said the food was good we did'nt talk to long he only had 15 min and wanted to call some friends which we understand he said they ha
Read more…Our son is assigned to ship 3 division 153. He is scheduled for Nuke "A" school. Received first phone call last Sunday and received the first letter from him on Wednesday. He sounded very good when we talked to him a week ago. He said that boot camp
Read more…My son arrived in Great Lakes on Monday May 6th. Graduation is June 28th. Just got the official letter for grad. Missed FedEx for his box.. Anyway the journey has begun.
Read more…Who all will be in Waukegan for the April 25th meet & greet and the April 26th PIR? Would like to put some names and faces together and shake some hands to say thank you! If you will be there during this time frame, send a reply, send a friend requ
Read more…Received our form letter informing us our son is on Ship 03 Div 163. That's really all we know for now. I've done a lot of reading and the only thing that I don't think we prepared for was getting him some phone cards. After reading several advice a
Read more…This was much harder than I thought it was going to be. We went up to Jacksonville to witness his swearing in. There were about 7 other kids also swearing into the Navy with him.
While waiting with him in the waiting for the announcement to go to t
Read more…Hola mi nombre es Hector padre de un recien integrado al Navy en mi ultima comunicacion con el me dijo que lo enviaron a una escuela para aprendermas ingles , mi pregunta es la escuela es en la misma base en Chicago
Read more…Just received the letter saying my son is on Ship 03 Div 222, anyone else?
Read more…During the short phone call with our son the other morning he said he was the recruit athletic petty officer for his division. I have found a little info on it but that's it. Can anyone go into a little greater detail, what he does,how was he selecte
Read more…This is for any father, family member or friend who has or knows someone in bootcamp. Write letters....plenty of them! While in boot camp they are pretty much separated from the outside world.
Receiving letters from home is like opening a xmas prese
Read more…Anyone else have a son or daughter with PIR on 4/19/13? I would like to meet others and see where everyone is from.
Read more…Received a letter from my son today, he is in Ship 12 Div 348, PIR Oct 26th. In his letter he stated that he was assigned to "Ship Staff" saying that there are about 25 SR's from different Divisions assigned to "Ship Staff". This is all the info he p
Read more…Finally got the form letter! My son went in on Jan 14th and the letter says his PIR is 3/8. Now I'm no math whiz, but that's not 8 weeks by any means. Anybody else get anything like this?
Read more…Does anyone know where the DEP office is in Portland Maine> My son is supposed to report their Thursday but we are not sure who takes him up there or at what time he needs to be there. Does anyone know? Thanks
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