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SHIP 2 DIV 910 PIR 01/27/12-
Hello everyone!
My husband is in this div :) he left from Florida Nov.21st, it has been very difficult without him home, especially with our 2 kids :( but i know why he is doing this and i am so proud! This WHOLE experience is bittersweet! I am so lucky to have found this website along with the others to help me through, i love meeting new people, and it helps so much when the people you are meeting have so much in common and know what exactly we are going through :) im excited to get to know ALL of you and keep each other updated and spirits high :) i havent received any letter or phone call yet, but i still have faith! GO 02/910 :) 49 DAYS LEFT!
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Permalink Reply by AutumnSunset on
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LOL! My husband is so excited that you started the thread. He wanted me to do it so bad. I refused, just because he is obsessed!!!! LOL Anyways.
It is a little odd, my son left a week ahead of your husband but is graduating the same time. My hubby says it is probably because they have to have enough people in this "division" to form the group.
Anyways. My husband is retired military and my father was the same. It is strange being in this new roll as military mom. I think that military wife was more difficult though. But God bless ALL the family members. I agree that the whole experience is bittersweet. Speaking of bitter, it is going to be bitterly cold going to Great Lakes in the middle of January!!!! I think I am going to invest in a new winter coat!
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Permalink Reply by navywife11 on
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lol yes you are right about the cold, i am a true floridian and not a fan of the cold lol but excited that i have a excuse to go shopping for new winter clothes lol we too come from military in our family, my dad is coast guard vet and my brother is currently active in the CG, troys family comes from the Navy and marines, his great grandfather was a CW05 :) hes very proud to continue the trend :) i also made a forum on the RTC facebook page too if your on that :) and i even made my own on facebook, do you have facebook? so i can add you if you would like :) we have alot of people on there too :) im so excited to meet all of you and have the extra support it really helps me, me and troy have been together for almost 9 years, married 4 and have 2 small children, we started young but we have no regrets, this is the first time being away for so long and without any communication, but i know in the end it will be worth it :) keep in touch :)
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48 days!!!
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Permalink Reply by kathyb ship 02 div 910 on
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Hello... our son is in this division. He left Dallas, Texas on November 21st. He is our oldest son and it has been very difficult to say the least. We had an early Thanksgiving dinner with him the Saturday before he left. It will be hard not to have him here at Christmas. He wrote a short note on the back of the form letter and he sounded upbeat; which really helped. Thanks for starting this. I had just dropped a note on the main discussion looking for someone else from this division..and then I found this! My dad was in the Navy many years ago and it is exciting to think that he went through the same training facility that our son is now attending!
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Permalink Reply by Luckylydia on
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I heard that the 900 divisions do the flags and music at graduation? Not sure if that is true. My boyfriend is in this division and also left Nov. 21st. We are from PA. We have been together almost two years and after boot camp he is going to school to be a nuclear engineer and I am already in school to be a secondary english teacher! Still no letter or contact at all :( Hopefully it comes today if not then it should for sure come next week!! :)
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Hi Kathyb and LuckyLydia. It is nice to meet people from the same division. Yes, Lucky, apparently they perform at the graduations and other events. Was your boyfriend in high school band or something? My son was in high school band and marching band. I guess being in this division adds additional work to them but it is something else they can be proud of.
So navywife11, does this make 47 days? ;-)
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Hi AutumnSunset.... our son was in the band that included the marching band. How exciting to know that the 900 divisions perform. I guess those years of marching band and parades came in handy. We are still waiting for another phone call (other than the original call that said he was there). It is exciting to meet other families from the same division and can keep each other informed when we hear something.
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Hello everyone! No John wasn't in band or anything so I guess he will be doing the marching part and carrying the flags lol. And I am very glad to meet people from the same division! Still haven't gotten a letter or call :( Maybe it is all the extra work! I guess I got to be patient! Monday will be week 4 for our recruits! Only six more to go after that so we are making progress!
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Good Afternoon to ALL :) i am so excited to know MORE people in this division :) i am still waiting on contact letter or phone call, its been really tough and i could really use a pick me up :( @ Kathyb, we also had a early thanksgiving for my husband, and YES! 47 DAYS :) i wish time will just fly by already :) BUT my brother who just graduated Coast Guard BC, told me..."Days feel like months, and Weeks feel like days" which i NOW understand what he means lol and it does! days go by so slow but when you look at it on the "week" point of view its going by a little quicker then i thought, i didnt receive any mail today :( so fingers crossed for Monday, and YES, they are in the 900 div so each of them will have a specific job, can be from choir, playing a instrument, to holding flags, my husband has no previous experience with any of those lol so im excited to hear how he was picked :) i am a very proud wife :) i miss him more then anything, so does our 2 girls, FYI to all my daughters 1st grade class, along with ALL 1st graders of the school will be making christmas cards to div 910 :) we will be working on them this week and i will send them out by friday or monday :)
47 DAYS LADIES AND GENTS :) CURRENT TEMP 26(BUT FEELS LIKE 18) LOL LETS KEEP FINGERS CROSSED FOR A LETTER OR CALL :)
GO 2/910!!!!
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Good Morning everyone! I get more excited every time I log on to read another post to find out more information. How wonderful for your daughters school to make Christmas cards for the division; we know they will all appreciate it. We did not receive a letter yesterday either; I am secretly hoping for a call today...well maybe not so secretly. I have been talking about it all week. I will let everyone know when we hear from our recruit.
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Good morning! 45 days left! yes i think we are ALL waiting on something lol i hope the mail man is good to us today! My daughter caught the stomach flu :( poor thing! but shes a trooper! i hope this week, well MONTH flies by! i HOPE ALL HAS A GOOD DAY, AND KEEP YOUR HEAD UP! MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WILL ALL!
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Hello all. Well, I didn't receive a letter today BUT my SR's friend did! She called and told me she had something to show me and I went right over. I assume that he told her a story that he did not write to me so he noted for her to show me. I also assume that my letter is at the post office somewhere caught in traffic!!! Hopefully all my assumptions are correct and it will be in the mailbox tomorrow.
He said he is ok. BC is hard. Physical training is intense but he passed his pt test and his swim test and is waiting to hear about his written exam. He said the yelling is annoying and he only has time to write at night.
Well, may God bless the rest of you with lots of letters today.
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