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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
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Moving On
It's been awhile since I've posted to my blog. I think it's because my baby boy has graduated from boot camp. He's moved onto his new school in Charleston. He is no longer a recruit. He's actually a sailor.
We are facing him graduating from his A-school and moving onto power school in the next few days. I am truly excited about this next milestone in his life, but I can't lie and say that it doesn't scare me. Every milestone that he makes with his schooling just brings us another step closer to the possibility to him being deployed. With the state of todays world, being deployed could mean so many different things. It could mean that he goes into a war zone. It could mean that he might be safe and stay closer to stateside.
I have never known life as a military woman. But with each and every milestone that my son achieves, I find that I have to dig for an inner strength. If he can be a Navy Sailor, I have to make him proud by being a Navy Momma!
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Comment by BunkerQB on March 12, 2012 at 4:25pm
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Hope you mean your sailor is moving on. YOU, we expect to stick around to pass on what you have learned to newer members. Thanks in advance. BQB
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Comment by MM3 Proud Momma on March 13, 2012 at 4:16pm
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Thanks, BQB!!! I intend to stick around for awhile. I hope that what I write is a bit of help to momma's of new sailors. I simply express myself in the best way I know how.......by writing!!!
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