letter letter and letter.....

so just a question, I know recruits can only send letters on Sundays and its my girlfriends 4 week at RTC, i got a lot of letters last week and i kept doing what she asked big and was to send letters and cards and pictures which i did. I mail a letter everyday so she can get mail almost everyday and try and keep her spirits. come home from work to nothing in my mail box from her and i did the math if im not wrong i should of gotten a letter from her or letter she may have written during the week when i talked to her on the phone she was given time to write besides Sunday but could only mail on Sundays.... i haven't asked her parents if they received anything i rather not. Is it possible that she may have gotten in trouble or her unit and they couldn't mail on Sundays or is that next to impossible? i made the mistake of sending her a very important letter in the wrong envelope. Ive also sent her extra stamps and an extra phone card for just in case. i just fell kinda lost and confused.

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  • The forum letter gets sent the last day of p days.
  • Larry when you get the forum letter It will have the address, start writing and send them when you get the address. you may get a phone call before letter. My girlfriend was in a extra week of p days and she called home June 13th which was a Saturday and she mailed letters the next day. But I mailed her the letter the day after we got the forum letter, it came on a Monday I mailed on a Tuesday she got it the day before she was able to call home. I've learned that she now able to call home on Saturdays I guess they earn it if they work very hard. Send an extra phone card, I sent her one and she was just beyond excited so now she can call both me and her parents if she wants. They can only mail on Sunday's
  • Yeah my son left last Thursday the 25th and I got the call when he got there and we got his package, I'm just curious when may we get his first letter? Thanks
  • Yes sir the thought been in my head but it won't be for another 6 months from now. I have a strong felling we will still be together I know we can get through anything. This is a big test and when I talked to her she said if it wasn't for me she would for me standing by her and writing non stop and being supportive and doing what Im doing she wouldn't have made it this far. I could hear it in her voice and she couldn't stop giggling the whole time. I heard them say times up and she wanted to cry cause she didn't wanna go. We could of talked for hours really. Ask much as I didn't wanna her to go I said its ok and told her to go and we said our good byes and I loves you's and she was gone. I now know that I need to keep doing what I'm doing because I'm the only one she really cares about besides her parents of course
  • Jim my throughs were right I mailed her a letter Monday morning and one Tuesday morning and she got Monday's Thursday and Tuesday's yesterday. I don't understand how I havnt gotten my letters. I don't really care at this point all I know is she's getting the letters and she's working her hardest to get phone calls home and I couldn't be any more prouder than that. Getting to hear her voice again and knowing that I made her day as much as her making my mine in my books that's all I could ask for. She goes to A school after boot camp unfortunately which is fine because when she comes home for Christmas she's going to try and take some time off. I plan to propose to her
  • Today around 2:30 my time I got a phone call form her from RTC, got to talk to her for almost 20 minutes before she had to go, they had a time to stop at and they allowed them to have 10 extra minutes. It made my day and it tops letters by far. She is getting all of my letters. What doesn't make sense is that she told me she mailed a second batch on Sunday with 3 letters for me and I still havnt recivered them and it's been a week I know it takes over 2 days to get them but still. Now I know it's the post office I'm going to have he change how he writes my address cause something is really wrong with that unfortually I havnt gotten the second batch I was going to tell her to change to our original address cause the area I live in they incorporate into a new city in 2011 the switch still hasn't happened but I told her to out the new name cause that's the name of the city. But my Mom said they been waiting on something form my dad that still hasn't come yet so I think our post office is all kinds of jacked up
  • I don't see her just quiting. She's smarter than that and she's halfway through training. She didn't have a reason to join she was stuck going to school to do something she didn't wanna do, and life around her was caving in she dated some jerks and I feel it kinda ran her out of her home. She's an only child and to me having 2 older brothers I wouldn't know what to. She was stuck and wanted out and she walked into the miltary, not going to lie I've seen about 5 of my firends from high school do or and others planned to do it since day one where she didn't plan, she walked into the navy office they said you could be a nuke and she laughed it off and went took the test DEP in and took the nuclear test and got a really high scores and got accepted. For me it just sucks that I met her 2 months before she left and she said that all the time. She was regeting it at the last minute and in her letters but it changed and I hope she is still in a better part of her mind but I'm not going to stop what I'm doing I'm still sending her letters till I can't which is a week prior to PIR because of the day gap between mailing here in California to Great Lakes plus my surgey is 2 days prior to her PIR and I will be on my computer watching it at home and waiting for the phone call. For now I stay postive. I'm also have the right to be sad from time to time because I'm always thinking about her and never will stop thinking about her
  • your such a sweet person keep her spirits up she obviously joined for a reason she knew what she was doing so keep lifting her in your prayers and dont let her quit no matter what because after its said and done we dont want her to blame anyone tell her the first coupke of weeks is the sucking part til they form up in divs and make friends it will sure get sooooo much easier also it takes a longer time to process out in ship 5 if anyone quits for example her div will graduate before she will even step foot out of bc I heard this alot of times from past folks just fyi
  • I try not to be selfish in my letters i always try to stay postive. In every letter i always remind her how much im proud of her, im here to support her and how much I love her, shes my world. i understand that ever second of everyday is stressful and shes going threw hell, ive gotten over not being able to see her, and trust me she is very very home sick shes just doing a good job and pushing throught it. When she sent me the first set of letters she dated them she wrote one every night to me from the day they got there bunks. I could see she was ready to quit and never go back and i told her before she left if she decides to quit no matter what happens i will always be in support of her no matter what happens. I even texted her that when she got off the plane for RTC and we had a short phone call before she walked into the USO and she was gone. 2 weeks ago before i got letters her DIV earned the phone call home and she was very sad that no one answered but was over joyed when i answered my phone the second time around she called and left a voice mail and i hated my self for that and i still do. I held my phone in my hand and waited and waited than she called again. I understand it boot camp and they break you down but when she told me she was forgetting who she really was i wanted to cry, it took 1 letter from me and only me to keep her going, she was crying because they were hiding all the mail from them and she was first on the second pile they pulled out. Now I write a letter everyday and send one everyday i go to the post office on my lunch walk in and drop it in there box or at the desk if there is no line. I sometimes think maybe they are not giving them to her but than i think if thats the fact once they do she will have a stack all from me. I send 7 a week, and i send 2 on mondays and sometimes a card in the middle of the week that usally counts as letter because i write in them a short note. One thing I put in my letters I tell her everything I do during the day, what i did at work what i saw if anything happened. Than i say if i tell her if i go out with friends. I also remind her of her gift that i bought her for her graduation i wish i could make it but i unfortunately can not due to having throat surgery 2 days prior to her graduation, if she would of started her Pdays and training days a week earlier i would of been on a plane to go watch it with her parents. Im send her gift with her mom.  at the end of every letter i tell her goodnight and remind her of how proud i am and i tell her i love her again.

  • ....and don't forget...."Hurry up and wait"!!!!....also a big part of Military life...LOL!

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