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Comment by smokie (ship12 Div 203) on June 1, 2012 at 11:22pm

Mareluc, We are here thru bad and good for all our SRs. Hang in there. Mine sounded down when I talked to him on the phone also. It is a hard road with ups and downs. Stay strong

Comment by mareluc(Ship11/Div196/PIR 6/29) on June 1, 2012 at 10:52pm

Ok ladies...since I promised I would sign in every night...here I am.  I received a letter today, but not at all what I expected.  It started off telling me he had bad news but the bright side was they all have some kind of sickness due to the water and makes them real sick and he also has a fever.  Then he proceeds to tell me that he thought he may have shin splints (which he has had in the past) but when he went to medical they told him they may have been stress fractures.  So he was having a test done and to find out.  He told me that he was getting the results on Tues (3 days ago so he has them) and if they told him they were stress fractures he was gong to ask to be discharged because he doesn't want to spend 4 weeks in RCU.  Well the bright side is Tues has come and gone and I didn't hear from him but I just want to scream! I wish I could talk to him and talk some sense into what he is thinking.  He was in p-days for almost 2 weeks and it took its toll on him and he said he can't spend another 4 weeks like that!  Now everytime the phone rinks my heart sinks.  If I see the 847 area code I may have a heart attack!  I am just so upset and sad I can't even talk to him and encourage him.  I immediately sent him a 3 page letter tonight but it will be days before he gets it :(  On the bright side at least his letters to his gf are positive.......so I am hanging on to that is a good sign.  Sorry to be a bummer when everyone is getting great reports from their SR's but just very down right now! 

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 1, 2012 at 10:49pm

lol Renee at least you have a way to get it done :-) What rate (job) will your son be doing? Someone on here can probably tell you about how long A-school will be.

Comment by ReneeBC on June 1, 2012 at 1:55pm

marcyl, I don't have a clue as to how long my son's schooling is going to be.  I only know he had to sign on for an extra 2 yrs active duty because his schooling would be so long.  He'll tell me, I suppose, when he has something etched in stone.  Clearly, I am not the go-to gal for info on this.  I stalk the Aircrew group and P'cola groups, though!  If I find something out, I'll let you know.

Juliebelle, We'll have jobs for our "boys" to do around the house when they come home for a visit!  Anything to help mom out, right?  :-D

Lala, I plan to take my son's ipod somewhere (I think best Buy does it) to get it loaded with all of those songs.  We live in the Twilight Zone and won't have high speed internet for another 50 years.  uhg.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 1, 2012 at 12:58pm

Renee- It might be a really cool idea to make a CD with all those songs on it or put them on an MP3 player for him. Then if you meet him at the airport you can give it to him as a surprise and he can listen to it on the flight to Pensacola :-)

Comment by marcyl(Ship11Div197) on June 1, 2012 at 11:41am

ReneeBC, I forgot that your son is AirCrew. So is my daughter. I'm glad to hear the physical wasnt so bad.. Thats awesome about the 3x5 cards. Luckily my daughter has some weapons experience..My daughter is a swimmer, so I would assuem she breezed through that. Do you have any idea how long they're going to be in Pensacola??

Comment by ReneeBC on June 1, 2012 at 11:36am

All,

I recvd two envelopes from my son yestrday.  One was a newsy note about his bonding experience with his RDCs.  He thinks they like him, now, in some weird kind of way.  He said a "Carry on, shi#head." (read "atta boy.") can really go a long way in making your day better.  LOL   He says his div is coming together, but there were 15-20 kids that were still struggling.  He said he felt sorry for kids who had never handled a weapon before bc, as he thought the training was rushed.  (I drilled gun safety into my children!  I made them take hunter education and safety classes as pre-teens.  There are guns everywhere in rural communities!)  He said he didn't think the special physical for Aircrew was so special! LOL  As far as inspection goes, he is getting better at making his rack and says he rocks ironing and folding!  (Good thing I was sitting down when I read that! I've seen his idea of folding!!!)  PT and swimming have been a breeze and he says it may become easier for everyone now that the chest colds are waning.

The second envelope contained two 3x5 cards listing all of the songs he missed hearing.  I typed the lyrics to his #1 on the list and sent it off with a letter this morning. :)

I hope you all are starting to get letters and calls!  It makes this journey a little easier.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on June 1, 2012 at 8:23am

Comment by diannep on June 1, 2012 at 8:12am

Good morning all!

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on June 1, 2012 at 7:31am

Good morning everyone. When my daughter was at boot camp I made a questionnaire to send to her. I added in all the questions that I had been asking her in my letters but had not received answers to. I made it a little funny to make her smile and I added a paragraph of encouragement to help her get through battle stations. I added it to the discussions above so you can share it with your recruit as well. You can copy and paste it and print it out to send with your next letter. You may have to tweak it a little bit since my Sailor is a girl :-) Feel free to make it your own. I hope it will brighten your Soon to be Sailors day as much as it did mine. Be sure to include a self-addressed envelope so they are more likely to send it back. And you could make an extra copy or two for them to share with a friend. I would make a whole bunch of copies to send though because the RDC's may frown upon that. I hope you enjoy it :-)

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