In about two hours, I'll be waking up my son, Cole, and driving him over to the recruiting office. He's swearing in this morning and then off to GL.
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In about two hours, I'll be waking up my son, Cole, and driving him over to the recruiting office. He's swearing in this morning and then off to GL.
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Well, that roller coaster ride is close to its end. I've never been on a coaster where there's that 'clankety-clanking' part that pulls the train to the top somewhere near the end, but that's where we are today. We expect the 'I'm a sailor' call later today and PIR is on Friday.
We're looking forward to the short time we'll spend with him on Friday before he ships out very early Saturday morning for a flight to Charleston. Thanks to everyone here for their support and kind words. I'll pop in and let you know how things go at his PIR.
Here's the latest, in my hope that it will help others.
My son arrived at GL late on 11/9. His division took a long time to finally form up. There were only about 35 of them for about a week before their numbers grew to almost 100. His first phone call wasn't until 12/7. Some of the other SR's in his division didn't get to call out that day because of other admistrative activities, especially dental work. They all did eventually get to make calls before the end of that week, though. Still, it was four weeks after they arrived.
As I mention in my previous post, we received his form letter, and hence his address, on 11/22. We immediately began writing letters which he didn't begin receiving until over a week later. The flow of mail has been a bit more regular after that first week of mail.
Because of their PIR date, his division is able to be "adopted" for Christmas day liberty. There are a handful of families heading to Chicago to do that; ours isn't one of them. We'll settle for PIR on 1/13.
My son did tell me that his division will be in tremendous physical shape because they don't know how to keep their mouths shut.
To help others with the timing of things, the form letter arrived on 11/22, almost a full two weeks from his departure date. We received the first real letter on 11/28. He was able to write that letter on Thanksgiving day. Otherwise, it might have been three days later, assuming a normal Sunday routine.
Oh my goodness, well we're out on the west coast. My guess is that it's a timed delivery type of thing. You should definitely get that form letter in like real soon!...
Thanks Gary, I live about 40 mins from RTC. This has been the longest week of my life, lol. Now know what my parents went through when I was at bootcamp.
From my experience for us it took about a week apart from when we received my son's "Civilian Box" and the "Form Letter". I gather USPS delivery time also played a factor depending on how far you are from RTC.
I received the sailor in a box last week, have not yet received the form letter.... hopefully today.
Address should be on the form letter you'll get about the time you get the box......you can try your recruiter as well, though sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't
I'm a bit curious as to how we'll get my son's mailing address. People have posted about starting to write letters daily, beginning now. However, I don't know his address.
There are some posts on this site about possibly getting the addy from the recruiter. Is that how it works, or will his address be included in his 'sailor in a box' in the mail in a few days?
Thanks for the videos, Paul.
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