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My son left for boot camp 9/13. I got his box in the mail yesterday 9/19 and an email from his Recruiter with his mailing address. I thought that was pretty fast. Anyone else have SR in Ship 012 Div 372?

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from what I keep reading on here, the correct address comes from your son.........I would be leary about sending mail until you get the form letter from your recruit.

My son also left 9-13. I got his box Tuesday but no letter just yet!! 

Where did your son leave from?

He left from Maryland but had a stop in Ga. When he called when he got there he said he couldn't write for a few weeks and call in 3 weeks. One week down and counting! Where did your son leave from?

Double-check the address the recruiter gave you against those at http://bootcamp.navy.mil/contact_recruit.asp. Recruiters sometimes give a generic address for the RTC and if the street address is not correct, then mail can be delayed for up to 3 weeks.  Know that letters mailed before you get the form letter do not get to your recruit much quicker, if at all, than letters mailed after receiving the form letter because the recruits cannot receive mail until they are in their ship and a Recruit Mail Petty Officer has been trained in how to handle mail, which means it is usually sometime in the third week or later when they start receiving mail depending on when P-days ended and the division formed.  Recruits can write only on Sundays at first and cannot write until the first Sunday after they are in their ship, which is usually the second Sunday they are there, but could be the third Sunday, depending on how quickly the division forms.  They later MAY be able to write, and maybe even mail letters, on other days as well.  Once your recruit can receive mail, Mail Call is every weekday evening (M-F).

Your SR may have PIR 11/09/2012 or the week after, it all depends on how many divisions are in the 11/09/2012 TG (so far up to division 370 has been confirmed).  Know that Divisions 371 and 372 are brother divisions and train together and will have Battle Stations-21 together, so look for others with loved ones in either division.  Once you or someone else with a recruit in either division has received the form letter and cofirmed the PIR date, watch in Boot Camp Mom's and/or at http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/groups-listed-by-pir-date and join the group for that.

You may want to join, or at least check out, Boot Camp Mom's, PIR Reference Information, and New Members Stop Here.

(Group names within this reply are clickable links.  To join a group, click on the group name and after the group page opens, click on “+ Join...” in the upper right.)

Got my form letter today! My son has the same ship and division #'s! Is there a group already started for them?

Join the group, PIR 11/09/2012 TG 52 (clickable link).  There will soon be a discussion within that group for the two divisions.

My son is in this division!!!  Please keep me informed if a group is developed...I would love to be a part of it!

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