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Son in DEPS not leaving until Sept. 2014
Hi. I am quite new and have learned a lot from this wonderful site! My son has been excepted into the NUKE program. He does not leave until September. We are very proud and excited for him, but this is a really long wait. Thank you to everyone for all of their educational posts!
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Permalink Reply by MDESFRED on
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My daughter is in the DEP program here in Iowa. She also will not be going to BC until September. I have been reading all the material that is on N4M and driving her crazy with all of my tidbits. :-) I am glad I have so long to prepare and learn. Her recruiter is great and always answering my silly questions.
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Permalink Reply by MattsMom on
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I am glad your daughter's recruiter is helpful. My son's recruiter said I could call anytime. I have his number so I told him I will!
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Permalink Reply by tina41 on
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hello all!!
I have a picture of my son at meps. he is all smiles! I remember trying to tell him of things I found on the navy website that he might like to know before he left and he said he didn't want to hear all the little details. he didn't want to know. I guess for him it wasn't easier not knowing. I didn't know about N4M until the day after he left. it is probably a good thing for him. with all the info on here I would have really been a pest!! it sure is an adventure!!
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My daughter is a Depper from Missouri and will not leave for BC until September. It seems so long and far away! She is very anxious to begin. She had a ship date of March 18 until she was switched to the Nuke rating. She's lucky she got September, they told her she was going to have to wait until the new fiscal year in October.
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I know she goes to Des Moines on the 2nd, we are planning on catching up with my sister's family that lives there that night. Then on the 3rd she will swear in and leave. Maybe they will get to know each other. They will be in A school at the same time for sure. It does seem like a long wait. She says her fellow seniors keep saying that she is leaving so soon, but she reminds them that they will probably start college fore she even leaves. Doesn't it feel weird that it is Labor Day and they leave right after that.
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Permalink Reply by LeAnn5(Ship 14 Div 002) on
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We just found out today that my son leaves the 16th of Sept. I agree hat it seems like a long wait for them but I know it will come all to quickly for me.
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Congrats, Matt's Mom! My daughter enlisted in March 2013, started RTC in November (a month after her 18th birthday), graduated mid-January, hung around in Ship 5 for a month while the Navy made sure that her new-found allergy to horses wouldn't get in the way of working in the engine room of an aircraft carrier (the Pacific Cavalry, maybe? Love the military mind -- I get it, but still), and finally arrived in Goose Creek last week.
I didn't get misty about her "leaving me" until a few days before she left when it really hit me that she was leaving. For good. I realized that she would be completely independent of me and, even if she doesn't reenlist, why on earth would she move back home at 24 when she's spent 6 years seeing the world? When kids go to college, you know they will call you the second they miss home or need your help or need your money. They can email, text, etc. and you are still supporting them financially. Heck -- if they choose college the soonest you will not declare them as a dependent on your tax return is 4 years away, and then they move back home anyway.
But my little girl is now a woman and I'm very happy and comfortable with it. I saw her mature quite a bit in the months leading up to RTC, but the level of self-reliance and maturity she developed since RTC is wonderful. Bonus: since she arrived in SC we Skype all the time. I have spoken with her more in the last week than I think we spoke in the year before she left (when she was still a kid in high school).
I'm telling you all this because you will have your ups and downs over the next year. Just remember that YOU raised your son to be the man you will meet after his RTC graduation. YOU raised the child willing to take this leap forward into adulthood and willing to protect our Nation. The Navy only does the heavy lifting at the very end of the process.
And while your friends will be writing tuition checks and wondering how on earth their kids will ever support themselves with a history degree and student loans, you can smile knowing that you did your job of raising your child to be a responsible adult, whose degree will be paid for by the Navy, and who will have marketable skills upon completion of his tour of duty. (Not knocking history majors: I was one. But there isn't much of a career path in it.)
Be proud of him and be proud of yourself!
And welcome to the elite 1% (Not sure if this is a real statistic, but a father of 2 Annapolis grads told me that only 1% of parents have children who served in the military.)
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Thank you, lambikins, for the post. I truly appreciate your words of wisdom! My eldest is a girl and attends college. She will be attending law school after and will be marketable BUT will have a ton of student loans. We can not claim her as a dependent on our taxes as she lives on her own, works full time and supports herself, but w have to claim her as a dependent as far as financial aid goes. I worry about her debt. So yes, it is nice to know my son won't have that problem. I also know he will mature into a wonderful man in the Navy (although he will always be my little boy).
I am sure you are really proud of your daughter. She must be really mature to make such a big decision before she was 18! My son is 20 so he has had time to come to that decision.
Thank you for your support!
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Permalink Reply by WearsLargeHats on
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For all you almost-in-year-in-DEP parents, there was an article in Navy Times today about a correlation between length of time in DEP and subsequent success in training and the fleet. Unfortunately I couldn't find a link-able version of the article. It didn't say whether they had controlled for any tendency of recruits into nuke and other highly technical ratings to be spending more time in DEP.
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I would really be interested in reading that article. I could not locate it. It must be available for paid subscribers only.
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