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Can I send a package to my son?
My son's been in bootcamp 2 weeks now...I was wondering if I can send him a care package and what can I put in it. I know no candy allowed, but what else?
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Comment by lemonelephant on August 30, 2013 at 6:18pm
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No, save the Care Packages for "A" School and after. See Letter Writing & Fun Stuff/Questionnaires to send to your Recruit for info on what you can and cannot send.
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Comment by Hello2u on August 31, 2013 at 1:06am
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yikes! he will never see or taste it!
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Actually, he would see it since he would have to open it in front of the RDC. He most likely would not enjoy receiving it though since he most likely would not get to keep very many, if any, of the items enclosed and very well could receive IT while someone else enjoys the contents or the contents are trashed in front of him as he is completing the IT.
IT: Intensive Training or Instructional Training; extra PT given to a recruit or a division as a corrective action (punishment). IT occurs when a Recruit, Recruits, or a Division need/s an extra reminder of what is the Navy way to do things. In this case, the reminder is to let loved ones know to read the Family Guide and not to send care packages.
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and to think I was trying to be nice, and not say what really happens there! lololol LE!
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:o) I side-stepped it in my first post, but I couldn't resist when you posted.
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Comment by josephine on August 31, 2013 at 6:28am
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Gosh! I didn't know he would get punished for something I did! Thank you for letting me know.
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Comment by abbyblue on August 31, 2013 at 8:50am
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they don't have time to stand there and open packages they just get send return to sender.
NO one opens recruits mail besides the recruit him or her self.
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There is always be miss information given out no one really knows what happens at boot camp your recruit get three meals a day and is not in prison ! too remember there are well over 10,000 recruits at any one time on boot camp base that is tons of mail to hand out every day.
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funny thing is, this rumor comes from the recruits themselves!
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AbbyBlue, The only packages that get returned to the sender are those that arrive after the recruit has left the RTC since mail is not usually forwarded once a recruit or Sailor leaves the RTC. Recruits do receive packages at the RTC. They receive packages that contain things that they are permitted to have such as make up and/or contacts and solution for photos and PIR, or a Bible, or writing materials, or any number of other things that recruits are permitted to have at the RTC. The recruit's RDC makes the decision as to what will happen to the contents of a package if those contents are not permitted onboard the RTC and the RDC also determines what will happen to the recruit who received the package and even having to open a package in front of the RDC can make a recruit uncomfortable.
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