Ship 14 (USS Arizona) Divisions 351 and 352 (Brother Divisions)

[ellen0502]

Welcome to the Division Discussion for Divisions 351 and 352

These two divisions are brother divisions and will be training together from the beginning through BS21 their final test. Your SRs, soon to be SAILORS, are becoming friends, and some of them may be heading to A School together.

Get to know each other, your SRs are!

Please still use the Main Wall of the PIR Group to post questions, and concerns, we “veteran” moms don’t always get to into the discussion area as often as we would like.

Every single question that is asked is important Every single concern is genuine Every single member is important to us We don't want to accidentally overlook any of them or you.

Hang in there!!!

[Knicky (Ship14Div351)]

You can only hope! But I wouldn't be surprised if his fad continued. There are stores on post were you can have the soles of your boots custom made, my favorites were the "sand strider" style (that's what we called them anyway) it looked like you had rubber "ripples" to walk on (similar to those new adidas spring shoes), very comfy though. They were meant for your desert boots but we had them put on EVERYTHING. There were a few other styles you could get too...so I'm sure he can obsess over those!

[DeAnn]

I am wondering if everyone received their phone calls already. I wasn't accepted on this site until this morning and all weekend I was reading everyone's posts about their phone call but I couldn't comment or ask questions. I started wondering on Saturday why I didn't get a call from my son. So I called my cell phone company to make sure there wasn't a problem receiving collect calls from him. (didn't know until yesterday that I should have sent him with a calling card) anyways they informed me that 8 years ago we put a purchase block on our cell phones so the kids couldn't buy tons of downloads and charge it to the cell phone. Well because of that they told us that if our son had tried to call collect that it would have automatically been rejected. Suffice it to say that I was devastated. I am almost positive he tried to call. It's that mother son connection thing. Something just told me to check this site and low and behold this discussion prompted me to call AT&T. Now I am a disappointed mom just hoping by some miracle he didn't try to call yet. I have no way other that letter to let him know the problem is fixed. So back to my original question before I rambled on..... has everyone received their phone calls? My son is Ship14 Div352

[PrayingNavyMomsHusband]

So sorry to hear you might have missed the call, we'll be praying that he gets another opportunity.  Just let him know what happened in a letter.  One additional step we have taken is forwarding our house number/landline to "PrayingNavyMoms" cell phone in case he dials that instead of her cell and she is away from the house.  For what it's worth, the division appears to be working together or they wouldn't have likely had a chance to call at all.  The Navy is a team and everyone benefits if they work well together.  Let's pray they keep it up.

[DeAnn]

This is good to know... I would much rather him have a good group of guys working together so that they all make it through than to get a phone call. It's just tough...Hopefully we will have a letter on Thursday. If the Navy mailed them out today in California we are 3 day delivery so with a day for processing...I'm probably looking at Thursday unless my fellow postal employees work really hard over there and get it out early. Unfortunately we don't have a land line. We never used it so we cancelled it a few years ago.

[PrayingNavyMom]

DeAnn, looks like our sons are together. He did call this past Saturday, he called his girlfriend. Not sure if it was collect, he didn't have a phone card. We just sent one to him last week. So much we didn't know or what to expect from this experience. His girlfriend said that they had a good group of guys and he was having fun, go figure. The not knowing is so hard, harder for the ones here at home.
You will be in my prayers and hoping that you hear something soon!!!!:)

[DeAnn]

I called my sons girlfriend too. I thought maybe if he was unable to get through to me maybe he would try her but she said she didn't receive a phone call either. Just hoping for a letter this week. I'm sending out a calling card in his letter today. I just hope he is doing ok. I'm sure he is... he is living his dream. Being in the Military is all he has ever wanted to do since he was 5. Where is your son going to A school and what is his field. My son is going to CT and is submariner computer electronics or something like that..

[PrayingNavyMomsHusband]

DeAnn, he is in the nuke program and will be headed to Charleston for A school.  I don't think he will know his rating (ET,MM,EM) until then, and he hasn't decided on subs or surface yet.  So I guess they could still end up on the same submarine.

[DeAnn]

That's true. My son was going to do nuke but after talking to his cousin who went through it he changed his mind. 

[ellen0502]

[pandabugz SD Essex]

Does anyone have an idea on when the next phone call could be? I have some great news for my husband and I don't want to tell him in a letter.

[DeAnn]

i was told the only one they are guaranteed is after battlestations

[MarGlenn(shp 14 div 352)]

DeAnn, was it you who said her SR was going to be SECF?