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Comment by IDCmom#1 on January 2, 2012 at 11:07pm

Gloria forgot to mention the electricity being turned off in her son's apartment while she was showering in the a.m. before graduation.  Think she did her hair and makeup in the complex laundry room.  She really is a great story teller.

Comment by jesspoo05 on December 26, 2011 at 3:01pm

gloria- sounds like you had your hands full and over flowing!! glad you got to have your son home for Chirstmas!!! sorry you missed the plane and had to throw away the mattress. but i bet that woman was sooo thankful for all the things you gave her! that was really nice! sounds like in the end you pulled on your super mom outfit and pulled everything off! great job! now take a rest! you more then deserve it!

Comment by IDCmom#1 on December 23, 2011 at 11:19pm

Cute story.  While my son was the resident "yeller" at this past FMTB, I have a very attractive daughter.  Several of the FMTB classmates have "friended" my son on Facebook and, I am assuming, they are checking out all  his pictures because two have already sent friend requests to my daughter!.   

Comment by jesspoo05 on December 23, 2011 at 8:58pm

lida-glad to hear your son got there alright! and i am sorry that you are without your son during the holidays! i know how hard it is to be away from the ones you love, especially around this time of year. at least you can take heart that he is around people he knows!! glad to hear he has friends there with him to help take care of him!

so glad to hear about the last graduation!!! but hearing about the mishaps with the programs is not good! i am sorry for those of you that did not get to see your loved ones name in print on it! i know that it is not the end of the world, however it is a little frustrating for the family! i know i personally take a pic of the front of the program and then one of the list where his name is, so i know how nice it is to see his name!! but congrats to them!!!

 

Comment by Lida on December 23, 2011 at 9:23am

My son and buddies arrived in Okinawa last night. I have not heard from son but his buddy posted on FB that they arrived. So glad that these corpsman who first met in BC and did A school and FMTB are still together. A high school friend of my son's is a corpsman at the same base. This is our first Christmas without him.

Comment by Cali-Mom (Beagles) on December 22, 2011 at 3:24pm

I will have to see when I go home and report back my findings.  We have both colored and black and white programs.  That's a shame but nothing can take away their accomplishment. I was very proud of all of them, they will go off and do a great job wherever they are assigned.

Comment by IDCmom#1 on December 22, 2011 at 3:17pm

The colored one ends with "S" and starts again with "Y" so "T" through X" are missing.  Did you get a black and white one?  Were all pages included?

Company First Sergeant should be HM1 J. Palomares and Company Gunnery Sergeant should be HM1 Harmon. Don't know who Company Guide was.  .

Comment by Cali-Mom (Beagles) on December 22, 2011 at 2:58pm

My son's name was mispelled on his travel docs and on one of his certificate. He is "Damain" instead of Damian. He was letting everyone know how he was "the main" (insert our last name).  He too was ok with it and found it funny and wanted all of us to refer to him like that the rest of the day. LOL.

As for the programs leaving a whole page of names out that's awful....was it the colored program or the black and white one?

Comment by IDCmom#1 on December 22, 2011 at 2:49pm

Cali-Mom, Sorry we didn't make a connection at graduation.  It was a nice ceremony.  Wish they had done a better job on the program they handed out.  The HQ company listed was for last class and I know at least one sailor who was "demoted" on the program and a whole page of names was missing another family pointed out to me.  I think I will scan the program, correct the part that listed my son and promote the other sailor back to his rank.  I am sure FMTB doesn't realize these little boo boos bother family members.  My son says he doesn't care; he has the pictures to prove he was there.  

My granddaughter was born at Naval Hospital Portsmouth three and half years ago.  I was impressed with them when I got there a day earlier and spent a couple of nights sleeping there with my d-i-l and our new baby.  One of the best times of my life. 

Comment by Cali-Mom (Beagles) on December 22, 2011 at 2:15pm

Congrats on to all Devil Docs who graduated last week.  I was able to attend with my husband, daughter, our aunt & uncle.

DSmom, I took pictures and will be posting them this weekend. I also took video of the ceremony, hopefully I can successfully upload them all. We bought the DVD and watched it on Tuesday.  It was great to see all of them endure and succefully complete this trainings.

DSmom I do know someone going to 29 Palms and I'm good friends with his mom. She is also part of N4Ms and she goes by stingyb21 Ship 12 Div 158.  I took pics of her son and sent them to her. It's great when this site can create these types of friendships.

We took his liberty buddy that Thursday to the airport and My son left on Sunday night to Portsmount VA. It was very sad but he looked so good in his dress blues. Delta gave us (me and his dad) passes to be with him until his plane departed, which was real nice. He's working in L&Delivery. I kind of take pleasure in that. LOL. It will be our first xmas without him....secretly I've looked at the price of airline tickets but they are too expensive ...wishful thinking only. His A school at San Antonio roomate and another buddy is at the same location so he is not completely alone. Makes me more at ease and he is already posted on FB tagging his friends with him. You know they are ok when you see them posting on FB.

I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays. Thank you for the support.  Look for the pictures coming soon. Good luck to the newbies wishing you a successful training beginnning in January.

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