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Comment by texasmom Prototype on January 26, 2011 at 7:08pm
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I just a call from my boy too. Yeah! He is doing great and said that the division has earned a lot of flags. He earned marksman in shooting and really liked both the shooting and marlinspike. He said that he had gotten in mild trouble when during his watch he kneeled down and adjusted his boot, so he has the midnight watch for the rest of boot camp. He now has a cold or something (didn't sound too bad), but he said that they got their pb shot today which ought to kill everything off. LOL.
He also is very excited about the PIR and wants to take a long hot shower and he definitely wants me to bring some boxers for him to wear while in the hotel. I'm not sure what they wear there, but they are not comfortable.
He also mentioned that they started with 14 nukes with contracts and now they are down to 10. He thinks the first 3 were medical, not sure on the latest, the last one just lost his contract.
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Comment by crazee_kat (Ship 09, Div 071) on January 26, 2011 at 7:08pm
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Just got a call too, almost 1/2 hour long!!!! Said they flagged in several things and was doing great!!!!
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Comment by MaGil / USS Wayne Meyer on January 26, 2011 at 7:07pm
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OMG I can not beileve that I found this group about 1/2 hour ago and as soon as I started to read the comments my phone rings and it's my son. How cool is that!!!
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Comment by emlovee on January 26, 2011 at 7:05pm
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just got a call, he called his family first and foundout his grandma might not live much longer so he was sad. not the call i like to recieve i dont like to hear him sad :/ someone make these last 2 weeks go faster!!!!
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Comment by Lynne W on January 26, 2011 at 6:57pm
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just recieved a call from my son he is a qualified sharp shooter he is doing fine and is looking forward to PIR . He did not sound tired just happy he was able to call
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Comment by William in Nashua on January 26, 2011 at 6:14pm
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Wow thanks Josh'smom that is excellent news, our ragtag division really pulled things together at the end.
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Wow that is great news. I will keep my phone with me at all times just in case he calls. Nothing so far. I'm glad the division has earned some flags, I was worried when they were having such a hard time coming together.
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Good afternoon Division 071 Moms & Dads, thanks for the updates emlovee. They call hanging threads on a Navy uniform an Irish Pennant haha, I can laugh at that one because I am part Irish myself. It is just ridiculous some immature kids are still acting up like they are in junior high school. People like that will "get theirs" in the fleet though, so they are not doing themselves any favors now. I wrote my son and said don't bother writing LOL he made it this far without letters no need to write now. But, please write to Grandma. They are so close to graduation now it will be over in a matter of days. By the time the letter got to him even if he wrote back it would already be PIR by the time I got his letter haha.
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2 letters today, i didnt get much info for the whole div except he said that battlestations is the week of pir, he said they had the gas chamber on the 28th, they had test 2 on the 24th,
otherwise he is in good spirits, the div is pretty much pulled together except for those few guys who act out on purpose, but he said all the guys are just taking the punishment now and not letting it discourage them since this will be over soon. he got his dress whites and blues, he said he likes the whites best and he has to "cut clippings of thread" off of them so he told me to tell his grandma because she would be proud haha.
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Hope the mailman brings some letters today to us all. I would love to hear how hell week went and their battlestations date. Got to go shopping this week for some cold weather clothes for my boys and I. Here in Austin, Texas we don't have anything but light weight jackets. Some years we may not even get below freezing. I'm hoping Chicago will have a warm spell.
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