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How do the weeks run?
This is the page I was looking at.
http://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/navy-boot-camp-schedule.html
PS. I really miss my grumpy teenager. :(
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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It would depend on when the division filled. Each division has at least 4 P-days plus HOLD days for the weekend. Some have more P-days if the division did not fill until later. He may have 1-1 DOT on Tuesday or it could be another day later in the week. Use 5 days for P-days and use this Wednesday for 1-1 DOT until you get The Form Letter and can write and ask him to date a letter with the calendar date and DOT. There is more on that in Arrival and What Happens at the RTC within Boot Camp Moms (and loved ones).
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P-days are Processing days. DOT is Day of Training. HOLD days are days like the weekend when little or no training occurs and the recruits do not advance in the training schedule. See Arrival and What Happens at the RTC.
The Page, What does ??? mean? (A Guide to Navy Abbreviations and Terminology), will help you with many of the new terms you will come across.
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Permalink Reply by Joy on
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Jen my daughter left the same day, Sep. 5th and I was wondering the same! P-days use to be their initial processing days (medical, dental, completing all their paperwork, etc). I'm not sure about the DOT. LemonElephant thank you for the information! I did get her box today, just waiting on the letter now and that should be here in the next day or so.
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Permalink Reply by Chipmunk on
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Jen, my husband gave me the same link as well, to help me get an idea of what my recruit was doing at boot camp. In later conversations we realized that what I thought was happening a certain week, wasn't the same as what this stated, mostly some things seemed to be switched around. But it was enough for me to have an idea of what was happening and to know that my recruit was very busy and just needed all of the encouragement I could provide. I didn't have this site at the time to access the other links which lemonelephant gave you. But when I did have a short letter or a phone call, I sort of had an idea of what was happening. It didn't really matter to me which week, once I realized they weren't necessarily in sync.
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