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Comment by Tamme on March 7, 2011 at 2:44pm

Wonderful welcome home video of an injured Corpsman's return.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=7997069&rss=rss-kgo-video-7...

Comment by TexasDocMom on March 3, 2011 at 10:40am

chief88, I hope you think about joining us on our board for moms with deployed kids, it's not everyone's favorite group to need, but we would welcome you with open arms. We have amazing women posting there, like here! and your voice would be a wonderful addition. After you weather your first deployment, you would be one to stick around and share your experience with new moms, I'm sure.  You will be on a real roller coaster of emotions the next year, and you are welcome to share your fear, your joy, and we love to hear when those phone calls come in....crying and screaming allowed and normal....please know you are not alone, we know your fear. It's normal. Melting down in Walmarts, yep! that's normal too..hope to see you there when you need us.

My son said the other day that the information about challanging some college courses, etc is not necessarily true, at least where he's checked. IDC, to my knowledge, is the group from which PA candidates are chosen, and I would have to assume that there would be some way to be certified as they left the military. I know I have a good friend posting in our deployed kids group whose one son is having a hard time adjusting to civilian life, he's in school, and I was wondering if that was one of his frustrations. I know my son was talking about becoming a cop when he left the military, he didn't see much problem with the transition to that (gee, thanks, son, I get to continue to wait for the knock on the door...grrr).So, I'm very happy to hear the words about PA and IDC...no more cops in our family, please! My brother was senior DEA agent at the Murray building when it was bombed. Thank God he was playing golf for the Special Olympics that day. Cops of all sorts are such a dangerours field.

Spring is on the way. The big Monterrey Oak that dumped over 40 bags of leaves on me two weeks ago, now is budding out with tiny leaves, as are the crepe myrtles, and most importantly, the pecan tree! Budding Texas Pecans mean I can clean out the flower beds, clean out the iris trash and wait for blooms. I have one geranium that spent the cold in the house out on the patio now with budding flowers!

Group for moms with kids in Afghan/Iraq link

Comment by Billie on March 1, 2011 at 3:04pm

Jacqueline:  Hi!  No, I haven't joined the Camp Pendleton group YET but will do so. Thank you for the suggestion!

Comment by Tamme on March 1, 2011 at 2:55pm

MissingSailorD, I'll let you know what the outcome is.  The Navy denied it when he pursued it after boot camp, even with it in his contract.  So the mother has gone to their Congressman for assistance. 

Comment by Billie on March 1, 2011 at 2:19pm

Hi friends!  Hope everyone is enjoying an early spring thaw.  Temps in the midwest are above freezing and the sun is shining, so I am a happy camper.  :)

 

Firemansmom:  Sounds like both of our boys may be going to FMTB together.  My son will graduate from A School on April 12 but he said he won't start FMTB (San Diego) until mid-May.  Where will your son be going after FMTB?

Comment by TexasDocMom on March 1, 2011 at 10:40am

By the time this enlistment is up, he'd have all of those, the only thing is the 2 years of E5, he got that rank a few months ago.

I read someplace that the Navy pulls candidates for PA  from the IDC list, but when I was talking with the CO here in Austin, she suggested having him sit in on PA classes to see if he was interested in that field. So, I am assuming there are classes in San Antonio as he is in her command there. His chief now is really pushing him to choose a C school or move on this. My son says "I'm a Corpsman, that's my job."  So I think IDC is interesting to him, more of what he thinks a corpsman job should be but intensified.

 

The most exciting thing I heard was Veterinarian school. I could foster all the dogs I want!!!!

Comment by TexasDocMom on March 1, 2011 at 1:46am

Thanks, Ruthella, I'm not sure what he is thinking about it. Like I said, this enlistment is up in a year, and the impression I got from him is that if he decides to stay in he'd be looking at IDC. I think in the long run he's looking at Phys Asst. He likes being hands on, he doesn't want to end up in administration. He's my mother's grandson, she said she became a nurse to nurse, not fill out forms on other people. So she went to work graveyards to avoid being head nurse.

I actually thing another woman has more votes than me when it comes to his decision....but she's a smart girl, so she'll give him good advice. She gave me a book for Christmas, 42 stories of moms with deployed kids....told me she had read part of it...and then hugged me. She'll be a good military mate if it comes to that.

Comment by MissingSailorD (Ship 07 Div 109) on February 28, 2011 at 10:23pm

Tamme-Did they tell him why it was denied? I mailed my husband another copy of his contract and I also spoke to his recruiter again. He said that the Navy has to approve it if it's listed in his contract. I've also managed to email a LRP manager to ask about my husband's enrollment. I hope it'll all work out somehow.

Comment by mikes mom on February 28, 2011 at 4:27pm

Ahhhhhhh sweetie it isn't easy just know we are all here... M will be deployed again in a few months.. I hate that we have to SHARE!!!! Yes, I was yelling : ) LOL

Comment by vettespace on February 28, 2011 at 4:24pm

Hi Princess, It went by way too fast!  Two days is not enough time when you factor in girlfriends, mom, relatives, friends, etc.  Dropped him off at the airport last night, and when you see my profile picture change this week, you'll know he's gone for the next several months.

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