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SHIP 12 DIVISION 224 PIR 7/8/11
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This group is for anyone who has a SR in Ship 12 Division 224 PIR 7/8/11. Welcome!
Website: http://ship12div224pir7-8-11
Location: Great Lakes
Members: 13
Latest Activity: Jul 12, 2013
Discussion Forum
Snippets from Letters 5/29 & 5/30
Started by TickledTink. Last reply by linda23 Jul 5, 2011. 2 Replies 0 Likes
I got two letters, mailed Tues 5/31, received in San Diego Thurs 6/2 written with RTC paper and envelopes. Letter 1, 5/29: - "Things are hard here, I'm not gonna lie. Every day is a 16 hr day and…Continue
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Comment by TickledTink on June 5, 2011 at 6:28pm
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NYRican- I call my hubby J for short, too. There aren't really any other nicknames for Justin LOL.
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Comment by joel's_rackie on June 5, 2011 at 1:17pm
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"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
-Sydney Smith (English clergyman,1771-1845)
*Happy Sunday everyone!!
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Comment by Willsmom on June 5, 2011 at 8:06am
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Isn't it just amazing the amount of comfort that is obtained from this site??? Ever since that phone call yesterday, I have tortured myself with all of the horrible possiblilities that my son could possibly be going through...(kind of ridiculous, if you consider that my latest advice to him was Philippians 4:8!!! be an optimist!!!)
lol!
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Comment by NYRican924 on June 5, 2011 at 3:32am
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Ooops, silly me, I just realized that maybe I didn't get a call because he used this turn to call his father! Oh, if this is the case then I defintely feel better :)
Hopefully this is the case. I will definitely be praying for our SR's, I can't believe that 10 have already dropped out and they still have 30+ days to go. Oh, and Willsmom, they don't get a dishoorable discharge because technically they are not full sailor/active duty personnel yet. Plus dishonorable is given to those servicemembers cahrged with a serious infraction. Below that is "Other then Honorable" and I don't think they would get that either. The only discharge for SR's would be some kind of administrative discharge usually categorized as "For the Good of the Service", meaning they were not cut out or met the standards etc..., nothing that I think would harm their record.
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Hi. Well no calls this week and no letters at all. I'm kind of concerned at this point. I'm figuring he didn't earn a call, ad if writing and sending letters is based on handwriting as I've read on this thread, then I'm never getting one with his horrid hand writing! Unfortunately he gets that from his father :(
@ Willsmom: I've called my son Jay since he was in my tummy. I told his dad that the baby, be it boy or girl was going to have a name beginning with the letter J, and I refused to have my baby referred to as "it". So my baby was referred to as "J" through my entire pregnancy and once he was born was giving the beautiful name of Julian but I have always called him "Jay" (J) :)
It's interesting that I guess he is telling his sailor mates to call him Jay, that makes me smile :) Thanks Willsmom for making me smile :)
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Comment by Lisa on June 5, 2011 at 3:13am
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Thanks Willsmom, I spent my day in a funk, but tomorrows a new day. I guess what bothered me most was that I know he (my son Chris) really needs to hear our voice and wasn't able to. Does anyone remember... was the last call on Saturday or Sunday last week? I'm wondering if they're calling on a certain day???
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I don't know, but I sure hope those boys (or girls) realize that 'quitting' has a lot of major repercussions!
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Willsmom- I can't remember if it was his recruiter or one of his friends who told him that you can actually still drop out of the Navy during boot camp without having to go to jail or anything, but I'd imagine that they would give you a re-enlistment code that would prevent you from enlisting in any other branch. But that's why they send their clothes back home in The Box, to try to deter them from quitting.
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Got my call, too! He called while I had our dog at puppy class. Since
I'm using his phone since mine got stolen, I don't have the same ringtone and
didn't realize it was my phone that was ringing. He left a voicemail sounding
good this time saying he got a 5 min call and got 2 of my letters but hadn't gotten a chance to read them yet and that he was going to try the house phone. So he tried the house phone, then tried the cell again, that time I heard it and answered.He was crying by that point and only had 30 seconds left, I couldn't really understand most of what he said. But he said again he got my letters and will have time to reply tomorrow and he loves me. I wish I had answered the first time so I wouldve had a little time to talk! Since he hasn't read my letters yet, he still doesn't know I'm coming to PIR!
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Working last night for 16 hours got me pretty exhausted, the phone woke me up! Got a call from my Joel!!
Do you think we should write words of encouragement to each of our SR? So, they could lift each other in time of need. My husband is extremely shy and keeps to himself.. I told him that I have a lot of friends here, and to introduce himself with TickledTink's husband and Navymommo's son. Maybe we could do that..
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