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New Navy Mom-Son left for quarantine 7/14
Hi, I’m new to this group. Any suggestions on how to adjust to being a military parent are welcome. Our son left in July 14, 2020 for quarantine. Does the two week quarantine still count toward boot camp? Does it push back his boot camp graduation? We only heard that he arrived at the hotel and they were taking his phone. We have not received any other communication yet. So how does this work? How do I connect with other moms in my son’s group?
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Good Morning NavyMom1013 and welcome to our group. Come and post on the main page as there is a lot of information for you to read and get to know the other moms. We all volunteer our time on here so no question is ever dumb. Someone will answer you.
Yes the two week quarantine does count toward boot camp unless someone gets the virus then they will go back into quarantine again. Yes, they did allow them to have their phones but someone was messing around with their phone so that privilege got taken away. The first couple of weeks of silence are the hardest. Stay busy and write, write write your SR will love getting letters and as soon as you get the form letter you can mail your letters off.
ellen0502 posts the groups on the main boot camp page after you have figured out about when your SR graduates from bootcamp it's usually then you can see if that group is up yet. Sometimes they have to wait until a division forms before they can make a division.
Hopefully this answers some of your questions. :) When you come and post on the main page there is answers to common questions on there for you to read and get to know the process. The ladies on here are great and knowledgeable. Have a great day.
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Permalink Reply by Chipmunk on
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NavyMom1013 - I noticed that you joined the BC Mom group - That is good!. As Partyofseven stated, we have a lot of information there and if you post the dates when your son left for BC there may be some other members in that same time frame which will help. The main comment section is the best place to connect at first.
From what we are hearing it is taking about 4 weeks out before the form letter is arriving which will have your son's mailing address and the projected PIR date (graduation).
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Hi Navymom1013,
my son left on July 14 as well and haven’t heard from him. Last call I received from him was they arrived in the hotel and that the phone will be taken away. I’m glad I found this forum and joined. I’m hoping and praying that we’ll get any communications from him anytime soon. I miss him so much. My son flew with couple of recruits and he said couple more from California during stop over before catching connecting to Chicago. Hoping to connect with you since our kids are both in same group I think?
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Navymom1013 and Allenea - be sure to send friend requests to each other, that is a good way to keep in touch. Most of the form letters are not arriving until after about 3 weeks. Since yours left on a Tuesday, it is a little hard to tell with how they are doing everyone in ROM, but I generally go by Fridays when I am calculating weeks, even with an earlier leave day of the week.
So, I would estimate that your PIR will likely be Sept 11th, Sept 4th at the earliest. Ellen0502 does not have a PIR group set up for Sept yet, but once she does, be sure to join that group and then you also have another way of staying connected.
Be watching for a form letter to arrive later this week, probably next - and if not, "No News is Good News" even if it means they may have been detained in ROM.
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