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Ship 02 (USS Reuben James) Division 943
Welcome to the Division Discussion for Division 943
Your SRs, soon to be SAILORS, are becoming friends, and some of them may be heading to A School together.
Get to know each other, your SRs are!
Please still use the Main Wall of the PIR Group to post questions and concerns, we “veteran” moms don’t always get to into the discussion area as often as we would like.
Every single question that is asked is important
Every single concern is genuine
Every single member is important to us
We don't want to accidentally overlook any of them or you.
Hang in there!!!
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Permalink Reply by fremont123 on
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Hopefully we get calls today . Have my phone next to me
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Permalink Reply by Becky on
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Just got a phone call - sadly was only 5 mins. But none the less, it was a call!! :)
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Got a call from our daughter. She sounds great and positive.
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My daughter sounded the same way - although to conversation was way too short! :)
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Short calls today. Apparently their division got in alittle trouble so calls a short but at least we get one. She said not to expect a call for two weeks because starting tomorrow is hell week she said
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Yeah - we were talking and then the call just ended. She mentioned in a letter there was a bit of drama...smh. We didn't get to that far in conversation, but thanks for the heads up!
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Love being in this group . It really helps reading everybody's post.
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AOMomma is right. Everyone HAS to accept that there are HUNDREDS of kids going in and out of that place every single week and if you look at the Facebook page- there is a story about the mailworkers on base who have to hand-sort that stuff. I concur with the block, all caps printing on the envelope. Any cursive or chicken scratch is going to get set aside until they can get to it. So take HUNDREDS of recruits, and thousands of letters every single day arriving? You have to accept how that is and work with it. Our recruit has received all the letters and cards to date and it's all CAPS and also put a return address!!!! Reason is they get suspicious of no return address because they assume contraband (i.e. the sender doesn't want it to get back to them). Just use good sense.
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Also- please use good common sense here- not just for OPSEC issues- but trust that the RDCs know the NavyMoms site and that it has these very specific division groups.
It's okay to vent but PLEASE for the sake of your recruit (and their shipmates) don't post things here about personnel issues, rumors, "people being kicked out" etc.
Keep that between you and your sailor's phone calls and mail.
Odds are slim that something you post here will get back to the RDC..... but do YOU want to be the one who did and your recruit got some heck for it or worse?
As many of the moderators and senior NavyMom's have posted, if it gets specific- maybe email or friend one of the Moms- but please don't post anything about sensitive stuff- the kids have it rough enough.
If you are super concerned about something, try keeping it really generic, or post it out on one of the more general Great Lakes groups but not on this Division 943-specific one.
Alternatively, directly and privately email one of the more senior posters. Hang in there- we are over halfway there! God Bless!
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AOMomma is spot-on too about just being encouraging during the calls. They will need that more than ever these next few days leading up to Battle Stations. Well done AOMomma!
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I wrote another letter today to our daughter. She said letters help her so much . Im already packed for graduation lol
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