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-Colleen

Hi and Welcome. 

We are happy to have you on the Navy for Moms site.  You are invited to join either the Illinois or Missouri family page as listed below.  It is a great way to find families in your area and even help plan meet and greets. We also have some packing parties for our troops overseas getting together.

Looking forward to hearing from you in one of our groups!

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PS.  Feel free to cruise my page and see if there are any other groups that interest you. One of my passions is supporting our deployed troops.  Check out http://www.navyformoms.com/group/mollysadoptasailorproject and see if it is a group you may like to join.

Carol

Thank you for adding me as a Friend. I hope that we can support each other.  If there is ever anything I can help with, just ask.  Blessings to you and yours.

Joyb- It looks like Mari is right behind your sailor by a week.  She leaves Dec 14th.  We are in Oklahoma.  She is going in as a CTI (interpreter).  She is nervous, excited, etc.  How about your daughter? 

This is a hoot.  Mari also went to the recruiter hoping for Mass Comm, but when we found out about the linguistics stuff she went straight for that. 

The MEPs station is really close to our house, and so is the hotel where she will stay the night before.  We will be staying at home after we drop her off and then going to see her swear in the next morning.  Her recruiter told me last week that they are done by about 9:30 in the morning and then we have to tell her goodbye.  He was not encouraging about going to the airport to see her off.  I will probably drive over there anyway and try it.  My husband can get us to the gate because of his job, so hopefully we can hang around with her.  We will see- I don't want it to be awkward for her b/c she is the only one with parents around. 

It is funny- we have a lot in common. My husband was Air Force too, but we really encouraged her to go Navy b/c they had what she wanted for a job, plus she really just wanted to be able to travel a lot.  I think she will get more of an opportunity to do that with the Navy. 

The waiting is hard, but it is coming up pretty quickly. 

We are in WA.  He got Corpsman which is what he really wanted, he loves that medical stuff.  How about your daughter?

I'm anxious for graduation too, I just want to get the plane tickets and hotel taken care of now.  I'm not a person who likes to wait.  I'm get it done as soon as you can kinda person. :)

Hello, My son is going as a ACEF and we are from California. He leaves two weeks from today. Yikes time is flying by. I am not sure about how this works. I haven't left a comment on someones page before.

I do have the facebook page and I had a typo in my last comment. My son is going as a AECF he won't know if he is ET or FC until sometime during bootcamp. None of us will know the PIR until they class up. It will be an anxious time for us waiting for the mail to come. I will keep in touch I think this will be our safety net. Take care.

We are going through the same thing now... such a hard time, but proud time too.  My daughter is going to be in the CTI program. 

CTI is Cryptologic Technician -Interperative.

Yes, it seems very cool, but a bit over my head. lol... Aschool is in Monteray, where is your child's Aschool?

No, how do I get on the facebook page?

Hi there, I just saw on the chat page that you got a call today from your daughter.  I got a call today too, maybe our girls are together.  What division is she in?

Joyb - you asked a question in chat before I joined re:900; that's the division that has special drill during PIR. They usually ask for people who have had either band or sports in the past.