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Comment by AlishaNicole SHP11DIV54 on December 11, 2010 at 1:17pm

p.s. Kac- Thank you so much for spending the little time you had with your SR to try and help us ladies out here! xoxo!

Comment by AlishaNicole SHP11DIV54 on December 11, 2010 at 1:16pm

KAC!!! Congrats!! Are you on cloud 9 or what!!?! This gives me hope to know I can get something, anything at anytime!! Hooyah!

Comment by JDMK-NavyMom on December 11, 2010 at 1:04pm

Lynne, Thank you! You are a special lady. I copied your last comment and pasted it to my documents title "Encouragement from Lynne." Now I can read this any time I need to. Thank you.

Comment by Denise on December 11, 2010 at 12:40pm

Great news Kac!  I'm encouraged now and extremely happy for you!

Comment by Deana (Ship 11, Div 053) on December 11, 2010 at 12:34pm

Congratulations, Kac!  I am so happy for you!  Wow, it puts my mind at ease just to know that someone is getting connected with their recruit (even if it's not my SR's division!)  I told my daughter to call my cell phone (whenever she has a chance to call).  I find myself holding on to it...just in case.  You never know when that call might come, right Kac?  Again, Congrats!! :-)

Comment by Kac46047 on December 11, 2010 at 12:25pm

i got the most wonderful surprise today. at about 10:30am i got a PHONE CALL!!!!! it was a long one too a half hour. he said he wasn't suppose to call till wed but they let him today. he sounded so good. their first tests are coming up so start writing and encouraging them!. i didn't get much boot camp info outta him cause he wanted to know everything that was happening on the outside. he said they are recieving mail now and that he got 10 of mine at once lol. they are also sending mail twice a week now i think or maybe that starts next week. He really likes his RDCs, says they are doing their job well. They love letters!!!! send them, he's running out of room already from me so he's sending them back because he wants to keep them all. So far their division is strong only one person broke down but he said that guy is doing fine now..i hope you guys get calls. he said he knew nothing about other divisions cause i was trying to find info out for you guys. im crossing my fingers that you guys get mail he said he sent out 3 this week, i just havn't gotten them yet. if they are writing im sure its only a short time till you guys get yours i'm praying for you guys cause it is true getting that letter and call put me at ease and i know a lot of us in this group need it.

Comment by Denise on December 11, 2010 at 10:53am

Thanks for the info about the calls.  And Nicole, that's a great idea about puttling the letter back in the mail box...too bad I don't have a husband to do that!  LOL

Comment by Lynne on December 11, 2010 at 10:37am

My experiences have been different than that of nicoles...  They have had a whole new crop of RDCs going through and there doesn't seem to be any order nor rhyme nor reason as to when divisions are getting calls.  Some get several during their boot camp time, others not so much.    My first call came 4 weeks, 2 days..etc...our 900 division got a call within 10 days... afew calls filtered in here and there for things like doing well on a test, perfect stenciling etc.  Some divisions get exactly 3 total calls....some get many calls...some get long calls up to an hour in duration...others 10 to 15 minutes...some see to have lots of prior notice and you might get a letter that says expect a call on this date....others seem to be a total surprise...so I have taken notes in various groups...tried to track it...and man I can't at all...

 

Nicole is right that they are calling off of payphones and it is difficult to hear at times...make sure you have questions written down about what you want to ask because you will be a little flustered when that first call comes...but really you still have folks waiting on the first letters so you have time to prepare for the first call...

Comment by nicole~a sailors girl(: on December 11, 2010 at 9:59am

Denise - Here's the thing about calls..it's hard to tell when you'll get them..because there are MANY divisions needing those phones. So generally 3rd week in is when the divisions are usually allowed to use the phones, but not always. Most of the time they go in division order, lowest DIV to HIGHEST DIV in your PIR. So you will kind of have to track them. Eventually someone in your PIR on here will have gotten a phone call, then track it. Usually 1/2 Divisions are allowed at the phones in a day. So count it as 2 divisions in a day and that will give you a guesstamate of the day you might get a call. Calls are screwey, and hard to hear alot of the time. They're muffled, and sometimes dropped. You just have to be patient. If you don't answer the first time 9 times out of 10 your recruit will call back, so don't panic, because when they do you'll be crying then YOU'LL be hard to hear too(; Keep your chin up and live every day like it's letter day. Even if it's not, tell your husband to go put your letter you already have and put it in a new envalope and put it back in the mailbox so you can have a letter:)

Comment by joansj proudGSM mom on December 11, 2010 at 9:58am

Thank you KLP.

 

Denise I am not getting my hopes up high it seems nothing is going as scheduled. I haven't even gotten the first letter yet, so I doubt the phone calls will start as scheduled. It appears from the other comments that their Pdays were extended so nothing is going according to schedule.

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