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Comment by Oldest of 4 on February 11, 2011 at 12:12pm

My starts the class all over today. I sent Vit.C immune booster and regular vitamins. Pray that all goes well. He has been hanging out with the group since he got recycled, so he knows what to expect. Someone stole his phone so I sent a to go phone for now. Ver proud CONGRADS!!!!!!!

Comment by richsmom (Div 818 PIR 9/2/10) on February 10, 2011 at 9:31pm

Very proud  HoooYaaaa!!!   Congratulations to your son.  He will love it. 

Comment by Ozzy on February 10, 2011 at 12:14pm

Congrat's!  Let us know his ship date after you know.

Comment by richsmom (Div 818 PIR 9/2/10) on February 5, 2011 at 1:34pm

kschott  Welcome to Moms of Navy Divers 

My son is currently in PC in Dive school and did the same thing.  He would only enlist as a Diver.   That is what he wanted and wouldn't go for anything else.  But I must say that he loves the Navy and would be disappointed if he doesn't graduate as a diver but has said he would definetly find something else to do and be happy at that if need be.

 

Good luck and God bless you and your future Sailor.

Comment by exxie on February 5, 2011 at 9:45am

Hi ksc!  And welcome to the pre-boot-camp roller coaster!  LOL!  Has your son signed a contract for a different job?  If so, when's his ship date?  With all those great PST scores, I'm sure he'll be sought-after when it comes time to fill some diver jobs.  Patience is the magic word!

P.S.:  Once he gets the diver slot, there's a whole NEW roller coaster to ride!!  :D

Comment by lnaipaul on February 3, 2011 at 10:28pm

Hi everyone its finally nice to see some activity on this site. Ladyhawk has your son gone throught bootcamp yet. Exxie tell your son to get sleep n rest. Lots of vitamin n@muscle building vitamin. Dive prep is tough. Only the best. I cried alotbwhen my son was in bc n dive prep. I will keep them in my prayerrs. Remeber tell them its 80 percent, mental. They will have to be breaken down mentally but you will be surprise at how they grow mentally in a positive way. I pray every night for my son hoping he can make it through dive school. Its test after test every week until they graduate dive school. I am going through nursing orientation right now. I call it orientation bootcamp lol. Anyway good luck.

Comment by exxie on February 2, 2011 at 8:10pm

Ohhh Rickiemae!!  Congraulations!!  Over on the PIR 2-18-11 group we've been doing a LOT of praying for your group--for all the loved ones who are traveling this weekend to spend time with their NEW SAILORS!!  Are you going?  If you are, I wish you a very safe journey.  The weather is completely craptacular, but you know they say it's good luck if it rains on your wedding day, so maybe this is the translation for your sailor!  ;D  "If there's a blizzard on your graduation day, you're in for one heck of a ride!"  Hehehehe

Seriously, congratulations, and we'll have to pal up to share what comes with Diver Prep.  Mine will be heading their right behind yours!

Comment by rickiemae ship4 div 803 on February 2, 2011 at 7:23pm

Hello Everyone, my son PIR is This Friday and has his orders for Feb 12 for Dive prep.. So excited for his future, I know it is a long hard road so I will be doing lots of praying. Look forward to getting to know all of you on our new journey.

Comment by exxie on February 2, 2011 at 6:53pm

I do lots praying, believe me!!  

We did a whole lot of research, just like you, before he signed on originally.  Also, he had to get a medical waiver because he had his ACL "reconstructed" about a year and a half before he signed.  So, between all the PT, DEP meetings, screenings, tests, etc., you'd have thought they were sending him into space next week!  LOL!  AND THEN there were no diver slots available when it was time for him to sign.  So, he signed a contract for something else (I can't remember the name of the job, but it was essentially the on-ship fireman) that he figured would be acceptable if he couldn't get the Diver contract before getting shipped out.  And of course, he signed with the furthest date out they would let him (June of 2011).  And then we waited.

He kept having to go back in and sign stuff or present new copies of stuff they'd ask for or whatever.  Plus he was at the recruiter's office several times a week anyway for various PT an DEPper stuff.  So, the day they called him up and asked him to come in and fill out some form, we were not at all expecting the *surprise* his recruiter had planned:  His big, fat Diver Contract with a ship date of December 15th!!  So, no boy for Christmas or New Year's or his 19th Birthday.  It was a tough pill!  But we made it through somehow.  ;)

Now he's in an 800 division at Great Lakes; He arrived for boot camp on 12/15, but that was the last day they brought any recruits in until after the first of the year, so there were A LOT of them and he had to wait his turn to get started on training.  His first "real" training day was not until 12/29!  Crazy, right?  

There is only one 800 division in any training group, and they're all SpecOps guys:  Seals, NDs, EODs, SWCCs, and Air/Rescue (I think that's right).  So, it's a tough-guy group and they are definitely working their patooties off. We have gotten exactly two phone calls--the "I'm here" 30-second call, and the "Week 3" call, which they all get and it starts at an allotted time of 60 minutes, but divisions can lose minutes if their RDC sees fit.  In our case, my son's division had lost minutes all the way down to where they were only going to get SIX MINUTES!!  But they did something reaaaaaaallly well on phone call day and got it back up to 30 minutes.  It's a real carrot for them, that phone call.  :D  But we know going in that the SpecOps division was going to be tougher and meaner than the other groups, so his mind was right with it.  That's the biggest challenge in my opinion, the mental/emotional stamina it takes to keep your chin up during boot camp.  Particularly the first few weeks.  I do not envy our recruits!  I'm proud, proud, proud, but would NOT want to walk in their footsteps!  :D

Comment by exxie on February 2, 2011 at 6:18pm

Ohhh, okay, LadyHawk.  I guess I have my blinders on today and think everyone is at the same stage I am!  Hehehe . . . and I've seen your screen name before so I was thinking I must recognize you from our PIR group or DEP group or something.  So, is your son still home?  

Mine has a Navy Diver contract, and is currently in Week 5 of his training at boot camp.  But of course there is no guarantee.  He knows he has to qualify and qualify and qualify at various stages.  I just was a little surprised at the idea that maybe there was luck involved, too!

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