Son Leaves for Basic on Monday

Karl Gosswiller February 9, 2011 at 9:58pm

Glad to hear you got a call...my 6'4" son said the same thing about height. Unfortunately he remained sick the whole time...'The Ricky Crud' as they called it never lets up for some of them. I hope he has as good an experience as my son - he loved it...Navy Mom's has a Meet N Greet at the Ramada Inn at Waukegan every Thursday before graduation. It is about 10 minutes from base north on Green Bay Road...you can't miss it. Great opportunity to meet people from your division and PIR group. About a 100 or more showed up for ours. Drinks are probably a buck more than they should be...but that is minor. The Ramada does a nice thing here. Great opportunity to meet people...we remain in contact with many parents from that night. Enjoy your PIR...we certainly did.

Joseph Gendreau said:

Well on Sunday he earned a special Call time for having the shiniest boots. It was a suprise!! All was well and it was a short call, he said that there was a mandatory call for ever on the following day. That call lasted 20 minutes and he was very excited to finally talk to us, ( well me, Mom hadn't made it home from work yet) He said he passed his first tests with flying colors and a bunch of them had colds but he was tuffing through it. He said that it's really cold and they march everywhere. Being that he's a southern mississippi boy I bet Chicago Winter is killing him ROFLMAO!!! He says there was 4 ft of snow everywhere, LOL. He has never spent too much time in the snow except the ocaisional visits to Upstate NY or Utah. He say's that he always get's looked at by the instructors because he's the 2nd tallest in his group, so if someone snickers or laugh's they think it's him!!! Funny he should be use to being blame all the time being the youngest of two. LOL All sounds good and looking forward to flying up for Grad in a month.

Any of you out there have kids grading on the 11 mar 11 group? Maybe we'll do a meet and greet on the evening ov the 10th if all goes well.

Joseph Gendreau February 9, 2011 at 4:11pm

Well on Sunday he earned a special Call time for having the shiniest boots. It was a suprise!! All was well and it was a short call, he said that there was a mandatory call for ever on the following day. That call lasted 20 minutes and he was very excited to finally talk to us, ( well me, Mom hadn't made it home from work yet) He said he passed his first tests with flying colors and a bunch of them had colds but he was tuffing through it. He said that it's really cold and they march everywhere. Being that he's a southern mississippi boy I bet Chicago Winter is killing him ROFLMAO!!! He says there was 4 ft of snow everywhere, LOL. He has never spent too much time in the snow except the ocaisional visits to Upstate NY or Utah. He say's that he always get's looked at by the instructors because he's the 2nd tallest in his group, so if someone snickers or laugh's they think it's him!!! Funny he should be use to being blame all the time being the youngest of two. LOL All sounds good and looking forward to flying up for Grad in a month.

Any of you out there have kids grading on the 11 mar 11 group? Maybe we'll do a meet and greet on the evening ov the 10th if all goes well.

Christopher Wood February 7, 2011 at 8:43pm

JG,

Congratulations to your son and your family.

The most difficult transition for you folks will be the 'silence.'

You should start to write immediately...space out the letters. But realize that your son won't receive the correspondence for 3 weeks and you will not receive anything until after the USPS delivers mail after the 3rd week.

My daughter went in on 1/4/11 and we didn't get a phone call until 1/23. Only a month to go before graduation.

FYI- in her letters it has gone from extremely horrible...to horrible...to her discussing the parts she likes. Having only experienced fraternity pledging and sports Hell weeks...I don't seem to remember anything I 'liked.'

Best wishes for you all.

Joseph Gendreau February 3, 2011 at 6:47pm

Thanks for the heads up

Karl Gosswiller January 31, 2011 at 8:25pm

Good Luck, my son's PIR was this weekend and it was amazing. Met lots of the parents at Navy for Moms meet 'n' greet the night prior. We got our first call week 3, others said week 4, one division went to 5. It depends on the RDC's and the division's performance...not necessarily your son's performance in particular. I was very fortunate, we got 9 calls total...though two were actually bad news (injuries & delays). Three others were awards for personal or the division's great performance on an individual task. Others I met got only 3 calls total. I guess you just have to hope and always keep that phone next to you. We got all our calls in the afternoon or evening GL time except one that came at 9 pm GL time. Calls came both weekdays and weekends. They were all over the map...just keep your phone with you all the time and if you get multiple calls ask your sailor how many minutes are left on their card. You don't want to not get a call over that. Hope you get many calls...but all are good.

Joseph Gendreau said:

Starting week 2 and no phone call yet, I guess that's a good thing. Means all's going good. The credit Union is the same one that I had while I was in the AirForce they offer the same types of perks. so he can allways change if he wants later. Wife has been sending letters to him almost every day. They sent back his folder that had all his writing supplies Not sure if he has had a chance to get some new ones yet to send us a letter. He still has his phone card and I was told some time between week 2 and 3 he may be able to call home for a short bit. we'll see

Joseph Gendreau January 31, 2011 at 7:52pm

Starting week 2 and no phone call yet, I guess that's a good thing. Means all's going good. The credit Union is the same one that I had while I was in the AirForce they offer the same types of perks. so he can allways change if he wants later. Wife has been sending letters to him almost every day. They sent back his folder that had all his writing supplies Not sure if he has had a chance to get some new ones yet to send us a letter. He still has his phone card and I was told some time between week 2 and 3 he may be able to call home for a short bit. we'll see

Joel January 24, 2011 at 9:53pm

We have not received a letter from Tom yet, so we are not sure what his grad date is. We had done a rough estimate and thought it was going to be the 18th of Mar, but your son left the same time as Tom so we are not so sure. But as soon as we hear from him we will let you know. Good to hear your son is enjoying bootcamp, I hope Tom is enjoying it as well. Talk to you soon

Joseph Gendreau said:

Well It's been a week almost, Got our generic Letter in the mail today. Son is in Ship 12 Div 101. Is that the same as your son Joel? Grad date set for 11 mar 11. He did say BootCamp Was AWESOME!! I think he has been looking forward to this for some time. Glad he's enjoying it at least for the time being LOL

Joseph Gendreau January 24, 2011 at 8:17pm

Well It's been a week almost, Got our generic Letter in the mail today. Son is in Ship 12 Div 101. Is that the same as your son Joel? Grad date set for 11 mar 11. He did say BootCamp Was AWESOME!! I think he has been looking forward to this for some time. Glad he's enjoying it at least for the time being LOL

Joel January 21, 2011 at 9:45am

Good morning. My son, Thomas, went to MEPS on the 18th as well in Fort Lee, VA and we received a call that evening saying he was there. It was very scripted and lasted about 45 seconds. So maybe our sons are in the same company. It was also his 21st birthday, what a birthday present.

Karl Gosswiller January 17, 2011 at 3:28pm

Get copies of the phone card just in case you need to add time to it...I bought a 500 min and had to add some time. We got more calls than most; but he also got disconnected by the bad payphones and had to call back. They take a bunch of time time off the card each time a call is initiated.

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