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Boot Camp Birthday

My son will be celebrating his 19th Birthday while in Boot Camp. I know we can't send anything to help him celebrate but was hoping to get some ideas from all of you wonderful moms on how you have helped your SR still have a special Birthday while in BC away from his loved ones. I am obviously going to send a card but am not even sure it will arrive the right day. Any suggestions would be really welcome and appreciated. Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by ssbeach on June 6, 2014 at 3:15pm

My son turned 19 in boot camp as well. We were under strict instructions not to do anything for his birthday. He last thing he wanted to do is draw attention to himself. We wrote to him every day when he was gone and used photos of his pets printed on regular white copy paper as stationary. When he graduated we had a big birthday party for him at a restaurant with some of his friends from boot camp.

Permalink Reply by 2navykids on June 6, 2014 at 4:09pm

Mine will also turn 19 while in BC but I doubt I will even be able to send card since his bday is a week and half after he leaves, I don't know if we will have a address for him yet

Permalink Reply by Alice-m2S on June 6, 2014 at 9:07pm

My son left for BC on 5/28/14 and turns 20 on 7/2/14. I have already been having a hard time just thinking about his first birthday away from home. Is even more upsetting that I can't call him even. Thank you for sharing the 5 birthday cards idea. I think that is what I will do.

Permalink Reply by Kristin ⚓️ (EM Nuke mom) on June 6, 2014 at 10:03pm

Thanks for the ideas. Yeah, I know not to make a big deal but still am fighting my urge to make it special. Birthdays are big stuff in my family and I hate how I feel knowing he will not just be away but that we can't even talk. I thought about sending some extra money and having him get something frivolous even to share with the others in his division but I do not even know what types of things they can buy other than deodorant. lol Thanks again :)

Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on June 7, 2014 at 5:38pm

It's best to not broadcast a birthday at the RTC.

There is info in Letter Writing & Fun Stuff/Questionnaires to send to your Recruit on how to handle a birthday while at the RTC.

Permalink Reply by OKst8Mom on June 21, 2014 at 10:57am

I read this thread because my son will turn 18 on 7/3 while he is at RTC. I got a mental picture of him racing to buy a couple of extra rolls of deodorant, passing it around and calling it a birthday party. Ew.... haha...

Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on June 21, 2014 at 8:31pm

LOL

Permalink Reply by Angela on June 14, 2014 at 12:08pm

Hello my son will be celebrating his 20 th birthday there I got his a dress now and me and sister has send him several cards miss him so much

Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on June 14, 2014 at 12:27pm

Since he turns 20 and will have different requirements for passing the PFA (easier) than when he is 19, his birthday may be obvious to others.

Permalink Reply by Alice-m2S on June 14, 2014 at 1:01pm

That is interesting. My son also turns 20 while there. I didn't think how that would effect anything.

Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on June 14, 2014 at 1:07pm

Yes, check out the standards for the Males at http://www.navy-prt.com/malestandard/. You will see that the ages 20, 25, and 30 have different requirements for the PFA than the age before and they have to meet the standard of the one for their age at the time of the PFA, so some will have a different pass requirement depending on when their birthday is. One young woman kept missing the run time by about 10 seconds, but she had her birthday and had no problem passing since that gave her 30 additional seconds.