bad phone connection from Great lakes

Hi All - my #1 son Chris has been in basic training (pre-PIR I guess is how the Navy terms it??) for 3 weeks now, and I have had 2 calls from him.  first one he missed me and left a message that i could barely make out due to a really bad connection, and today I heard from him again, but the connection was worse than before.  The 1969 moon landing transmissions were more clear.  I could not hear him.  His transmission was broken and totally unintelligible due to a bad connection.  Is this normal?  If so, why?

You need to be a member of Navy Dads to add comments!

Join Navy Dads

Email me when people reply –

Replies

  • One of the phone calls from my son this summer (he's is A-School now) was really horrible.  I believe that there is a bad phone, and no-one has fixed it.  In your next snail-mail letter, I'd advise him to try a different phone. 

  • Thanks Jim!  I was hoping to see if anyone has had this experience, or if the string is just too long from Illinois to NW Montana!

     

This reply was deleted.