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Ship 03 Division 071
Any one with loved ones in this division yet? My daughter left Dec 12th. I haven't received a letter yet from her, but I was able to get the Information from the recruiter.
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Permalink Reply by mrsreynoldsx3 on
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YAY! I had a feeling it would be tomorrow, I just wasn't sure with the holidays, and plus i'm awful at math so I can't really fully depend on it. I cannot wait! Probably won't sleep lol. I wonder how many divisions will graduate their day?? JUST encase that is a question for trivia Tuesday, Where do we find this kind of information out? I need to study so we can win a picture next Tuesday =)
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Permalink Reply by momofSR03/071 on
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Wooooohoooooo. Maybe tomorrow or the next day we will get ours. Don't you live pretty close to great lakes?
Well.....we are all a bunch of starving animals and u r the only one that has gotten anything. Tell us More!!!! -
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Permalink Reply by Tish Navymom/wife on
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Yes, I live a little over an hours drive from there. Lets see, she said she is "sick with a sore throat, runny nose and cough but its the third week and everyone is right now" The food is good, kinda like what they served in school. She felt like she was gaining weight since they have not been doing alot of PT until this week, they had a practice one and ran 4 laps of the 12 for the test, she did fine on the sit ups and push ups. They were to have taken their official PT test yesterday, if they passed this one along with the written test, they should make E-2. If they dont pass it, they have two more chances before graduation. They took them the the NEX store to buy any necessities, some of which were items that she had taken with her & they made her mail back. ????
The girls share barraks with div 072 (their brother division) and they are a bit more rowdy in attitude and drama. but its all good. Bed making and stenciling is tough, and she gets up in the middle of the night to iron when they put her down for it, and sometimes for watch. oh, and everyone has tattoos! lol (she wanted to get one before going in and we talked her out of it)
Well, I hope that gives you something to hold you until you get your letter. Hope its tomorrow!!!
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Graduation info. http://www.bootcamp.navy.mil/
With the # in their division it is probably one of the largest.
Ill b at work when the mail comes tomorrow ugh. My husband will be home he works 3rd shift ” our mail comes between 1030-11am. Ill bve hounding him until he's standing out there waiting for the mail lady. -
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Haha she sounds like she's doing great. My son has a tattoo. Wow I wonder why they haven't been doing a lot of pt. They better get their butts moving.
I wonder what the guys r gonna write.
Thanks for sharing. It makes me feel good. Its like when I saw the photo. I feel comforted that things r going ok & they r doing alright. -
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Good to know the details, Thank you. My husband is a big baby when he is sick, I hope he is doing okay. Can't wait for tomorrow =)
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Another thing, I wonder if they get paid for the extra 2 weekday they had to be there?
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Permalink Reply by tucker2 on
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As soon as they swore in they where on payroll so yes they are getting payed. As soon as my daughter found about about that she started planing on which computer she was going to buy, lol.
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Hmmm never thought about the pay. I thought they got paid for the month but I don't know anything about it. I just have it marked in my calendar to log into my sons account and pay the bills he's had set up.
I never asked the details of his pay. He had a job here making about $1000 a week he gave up to join the navy. Actually his work got irked when they found out he would be leaving that they terminated his position. 2 months before he was leaving. Jerks. A couple of people knew but when they were sending him for a training class to give him a promotion his managers found out he had joined the navy. Delayed entry. They found out he was leaving & cut his job position. Jerks.
He said he could see their point....why train him& have someone do his job while he was in training & then him leave in 2 months.
He doesn't have any debt from schooling. We paid as he went thru the fire academy and emt. He just had a year of paramedic left when he decided to join. -
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Oops meant to type weeks* wow, 1000 dollars a week would go far where I come from. My husband had been working as a fabricator since we graduated high school, its been 4 years he grossed about 720 a week and we had decent insurance, but he always wanted to be in the military.. I was just scared and never wanted to leave home or go without seeing him. He brought it up last spring and i said... You know what just do it! I'll support you :) we can do this. Hes always wanted more out of life and give us a better life so we took all his money out of his 401 k and paid our bills with it until paychecks start coming in. He left work a month before leaving for boot camp to spend extra time with us, it was nice. One benefit of him staying longer would be extra pay, I hope, we sold most of our belongings and plan to buy new so it'll help. So proud of him <3 and miss him dearly.
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I agree with momofSR-3/-71 you've got a great man there. Once the pay gets going they will get paid on the 15th and 30th of each month. It used to be 1st & 15th but they just changed it in December. Base Pay is determinied by rank, and will adjust depending on their duty station or location. For example, when they go on a deployment (which is normally called a 6 month cruise) after the first 30 days they get more money. If they are married they get more (separation pay) there's danger pay when they are in a "danger zone" and usually when that happens they get that month tax free. My son is stationed in Sicily Italy and he is getting a really good paycheck compared to what he got when he was in Washington State, but still less than he got when he was in Afghanistan (3 times!!)
Anyway, being a NavyWife is the toughest job in the Navy but the most rewarding! The separations suck, but the homecomings are awesome!!!! With email today, the deployments are much more bareable than when my husband did his first one and I would have to wait several weeks to get a letter or phone call.
The support groups are fantastic and really help you get thru those times. I recommend volunteering to be Ombudsman, in that position, you will get all the information first, and you get to know all the other spouses better. I was Ombudsman for my husbands command when we were stationed in Naples Italy, best three years of my life!!! They even sent me to Spain for a week for Ombudsman training!
I'm sooooo excited for you, because I know what a wonderful experience you are about to embark on, embrace it fully, there are some wives who refuse to and they are miserable.
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