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All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.
Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
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My son leaves on the 23rd of August, too! It does seem that after so many months of waiting, it's coming very soon. I hope he's ready, and we are, too!
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Comment by BunkerQB on June 25, 2011 at 12:54am
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Join this group New Moms Stop Here. Just underneath the members icons, you'll find a little section with "pages" - click on the Survival Guide. Here you will find links to all the other groups for you the join, videos, powerpoint presentations, tips on navigating this site.
Good luck.
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Comment by Kathleen10 on June 27, 2011 at 10:17am
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Hi,
My son left May 24, he has 24 days 21 hours left of bootcamp. I wanted to write you so you can "learn"from things I wish I had done. Please explain to your son that he will not receive a letter from you for about two weeks, my son wrote that he thought I had forgotten him. But I had to wait to get the formal letter with his address on it.
2nd make sure he has pictures of his loved ones in his wallet. Again I did not do this:(
I wrote my son a letter to take with him, describing how I believe in him and how proud I am of him. He thought he wouldn't need it after he boarded the airplane to Great Lakes so he threw it away, he soon found out he was wrong. He wrote me that he wished he would have kept it to re-read.
Go ahead and buy that phone card to put in your first letter once you get his address. Start writing as soon as he goes so you can send them as soon as you get his address.
If your son wants addresses of his friends, family etc. write them out now together, phone numbers to, then send that with 1st letter.
Do not send him care packages, or try to slip gum into his letter, it causes him to do more exercises.
I never thought my son would be homesick, I never dreamed of it. I was wrong.
One more thing, hug him then hug him again.
There are no words that will fill or ease the pain you will feel after he goes, but please know you are not alone, this group is so supportive!
Good Luck!
Kathleen
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Comment by datmax1 on July 2, 2011 at 9:25pm
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Wow Kathleen...thank you so much for the post. My son left June 28th and I'm so glad to have your advise. We did not send pictures (sad about that) Can I send pictures with the letters that I send him?
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Comment by SheilaD on July 12, 2011 at 3:53pm
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I will definitely send him with photos and remind him that we will be thinking and praying for him every day! I hope that he does well!
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