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Questions about my son's recruiter
My son left for boot camp 32 days ago, his PIR is April 24th (getting close!!) but I see all these posts and hear all the stories of how their SR's recruiter told them this or told them that, or how wonderful the recruiter is....I do not even know my son's recruiter's name!!! Never been contacted, never got one piece of information from him. Is that normal???? Could it be my son just wanted to be independent and not get his parents involved? My ex husband got more info than I did because my son lived with him but it was from my son. I had to pry information out of my son. I would have been totally in the blind without this site and I know there has to other mothers and or fathers in the blind that do not know about these sites. Is it part of the recruiter's job to inform loved one's?
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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If your son was over the age of 18 when he signed, then yes, it is very normal not to have had any contact with the recruiter. Also, since your son lived with his father, then the recruiter may have contacted him. No, the recruiters have no obligation to the families of future Sailors or Recruits.
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The only time a recruiter is required to have contact with parents, and that is only if the future Sailor is under 18 years of age, is at the 72 hour Indoctrination after the future Sailor signed a contract at MEPS and has a ship date. Any contact with a recruiter other than that would normally have to be initiated by the parent and if the future Sailor is over 18, the future Sailor would have to have given the recruiter consent to share information--most recruiters just check to see if the person asking is listed on the future Sailor's or Recruit's page 2.
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Permalink Reply by Nick's Mom on
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My son graduated last Friday. He wanted to do everything on his own. He said he was 19 and felt like he was old enough to do it on his own. Believe me, I was not comfortable with it, but I supported him. I was scared he wouldn't asked the right questions or realize what he was deciding to do with his life. It's scary, but I'm super proud of him. Now, he's a Sailor for The U.S. Navy. This group helped me so much. Join all of them that concerns your son. Good luck to you and your son.
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Permalink Reply by Mom2SL on
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My son turned 19 in January and arrived at boot camp Monday. The only time I spoke to his recruiter was by phone when my son was feeling pressured to sign up for a rate he knew nothing about after failing the color vision test for the nuke program, which is what he had thought he'd be signing up for. He was at MEPS and needed our support in making the decision to walk away to "sleep on it" despite intense pressure from his recruiter and, I think, other personnel at MEPS. My son wanted to serve but did want to have some choice in his career path. Other than that incident, my son did everything on his own. It was important to him to feel like he was doing this on his own, so we respected that and just relied on him telling us what he believed we needed to know.
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