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Accelerated boot camp because of the holidays
My son left for boot camp on November 7th. His PIR would be in early January. His recruiter told his dad and I that our son might get put in an accelerated group at boot camp who would graduate before Christmas and that he may be able to come home before or after he checks into Goose Creek South Carolina where he will be going to Nuke A school. Does anyone know about this? I can't imagne squishing everything they normally learn in 8 weeks into 5 or 6 weeks. His PIR date will be reflected whne we get the letter in a few weeks. I am not planning on him graduating before Jan, but we were told that due to the holidays sometimes they push everyone through. Any help/comments are appreciated.
Josh's mom
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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tiggertime, How sad that I posted that and now you have a form letter that has some wrong info. I wish the RDC's (or whoever it is who instructs the recruits in what to write on the form letter) would double-check the info before writing it down for the recruits to copy or saying it for them to write down. I really do believe that your SR is in either Division 047 or 048.
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Permalink Reply by tiggertime on
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Well I finally accepted that my son's PIR date would be 1/4/2013 and now it will be later. He is in the hospital. He was in Ship 12 Division 048 and now he will be moved to a new division. He has Rhabdomyolysis. It is easier to google it than for me to explain what it is. They don't expect to release him until this coming Monday or Tuesday when his blood CK levels are back to normal. My son said that in his division about 2/3rds of the recruits are causing the whole group to do more physical excercises etc...which is likely what landed my son in the ER and then admitted to the hospital. He said they are goof offs. I guess the good thing is that the new division probably can't be any worse. I hope anyone else who has a recruit in division 048 hars that things are going ok for their recruit. My son sounded shell shocked when he called us to tell us he was in the hospital. The only good thing about his ordeal is that we can talk to him as much as we want until he is discharged. From the sounds of it I doubt the recruits in 048 will earn any calling home privileges because of the goof offs. The entire division suffers.
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Permalink Reply by Paula's/son/corpsman/ on
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I am so sorry for your son! That all sounds horrible! I hope he has a speedy recovery. My son is in 041
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Permalink Reply by Zman'smom on
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I take what the recruiter says with a grain of salt. My sons recruiter told him he was going earlier than originally planned so that he would graduate before Christmas. Well, that was not the case. He arrived at Boot Camp on Oct 25th and is not graduating till Dec 28th. Like lemonelephant said, wait till you get your form letter which can take a week or two to receive by snail mail (USPS). I didn't get mine for two weeks, when most got there's a week after their SR's left.
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Permalink Reply by MichPad(STA21 Officer Mom) on
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Welcome Josh's Mom! I have heard of them trying to shorten it to 7 weeks, but not 5-6 weeks. I am glad to see you on here so early in the game, my son's recruiter didn't say anything about N4M's or the RTC Facebook page (have you been there yet? You MUST, if you haven't). I found the RTC facebook page by accident one day while trolling the RTC's web page, about half way through bootcamp. It was a godsend! Between that site, this one, and now the Nuke Mom's page, it makes it all bare able. https://www.facebook.com/NavyRecruitTrainingCommand?fref=ts
BTW, check out "Nuke Moms" on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/groups/nukemoms/ This is a great site and full of Moms with lots of experience. My son is also a Nuke, been in almost 2 years and is still in GC, as a Staff Instructor. He will be there till Feb, then will leave for RI for two months of Officer's "bootcamp".
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tiggertime, Yes, sometime between now and the end of BC, you will want to join, or at least check out, the groups, Nuke School Charleston, NUKE moms, and Loved Ones in the Nuke Program!.
(Group names within this reply are clickable links.)
MichPad(NukeEM-GC,SC), thanks for also pointing her to the fB page.
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There's so much information on these pages/sites. I tend to stick with the Facebook pages as to me they are easier to maneuver.
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I find info on here easier to find than on fB partly because of the search feature, but I do like fB.
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Permalink Reply by Colleenie Roo's Momma on
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They told my son at MEPS the same thing, he may be home for Christmas. He left on the 6th. I wish they would not have said anything and put that hope in both our hearts!
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I agree. It would be easier not knowing instead of hoping the whole time.
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Permalink Reply by vzz ship 12 div 48 on
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my son left on the 6th too . they told me the 3rd of jan. But i haven't gotten his letter yet
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The 3rd is a Thursday and an unlikely PIR date given that the 4th is not a holiday. Wait for the form letter.
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