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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)
Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC
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She left today!
My daughter left today! I will be trying to wait patiently for my 30sec scripted phone call! I never imagined it to be this hard to let her go! I feel I am be selfish by all these tears but I am just being a mom! I have my 1st letter already written, just waiting for address.
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Comment by lemonelephant on April 2, 2015 at 1:13am
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Welcome to this part of the journey.
Be sure to join the groups that I left on your My Page a while back.
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Comment by Loving Mom on April 2, 2015 at 8:52am
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Our son left two weeks ago today......the hurting gets better and the crying slows down....but I come to realize it is kind of like a grieving of change. Looking forward to getting our "form letter" which we still have not received. Anxiously awaiting PIR date so we can make plans.
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Comment by Leach73 on April 2, 2015 at 3:06pm
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rygirlsmom - I felt just the way you are feeling a little over a year ago when my daughter left for boot camp! I thought I'd never stop crying. If it wasn't for this website, I would have gone crazy! Every day since then I log on and read up all that I can to learn about this new Navy life. I suggest you do the same and believe me, as it has been said a lot around here "it never gets easier, you just get stronger". Write, type, draw, get greeting cards, print out pictures, motivational quotes, bible verses, jokes, everything you can just to talk to her in your letters...except for letting her know how sad you are. I wrote up to 3 letters a day and sent them everyday as soon as I got her address. It was therapeutic for me too! I would enjoy my stroll over to the mail room here at work and kissed the envelope each time I sent it! I started to get letters back from her after the 3rd week and my letter arrival day was Tuesday. We live in Illinois so I received my letters within in day. She'd write on Sundays, mail them on MOnday and I would rush home to attack the mail box!! I'd do the happy dance and cry happy tears and would read and reread the letters and then i'd carry them around with me in my purse!! It is amazing how you start to countdown the Fridays and next thing you know you are at Sarge's meet and greet the day before PIR and finally the best Friday of all arrives. You can do this my friend!! Hang in there!! I am sure your daughter misses you more so, make sure to send lots of love, hugs, and kisses! Like lemonelephant says, join the corresponding groups and it will make this journey so much better. You are not alone!!! it is a roller coaster ride!
Welcome to the Navy family! The best to your SR!
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Comment by mrboysmom on April 3, 2015 at 2:25pm
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Hi rygirlsmom, My SR left also on Wednesday. I can only image the craziness our kids are going through to get on the new Navy schedule. I also have been thinking if my SR had enough money to even send "the box" home with cellphone in it, with it being shipped by FedEx it could be expensive and my SR didn't have a lot of cash on hand. So I will see if "the box" even comes, lol. I told my SR that on the "form letter," to write me a note on anything about what's happening. So I'm curious if that is remembered when I get the "form letter." Maybe our kids will be in the same division when that gets all decided. May your weekend be tear free, as I know it's Easter, so the 1st holiday our kids miss out on with their families. I will myself try to be tear free without my SR this Sunday! Take care.
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Comment by KristyBSJ's Mom on April 5, 2015 at 10:12pm
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Prayers for you and your daughter!
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Comment by Cupikake on April 6, 2015 at 10:41pm
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I dropped my son off yesterday and just got his first call saying he was there and that I'd get a box in the mail and a letter soon. He also said he'd call again in about two weeks. Then he said, "tell Stef I love her".
I was lucky to have Easter with him-even for half the day.
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Cupikake, Welcome to the next part of the journey.
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Comment by LooveMySailor on April 8, 2015 at 12:57pm
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My husband also left the same day! I got his address from his recruiter! Check and see if they are in the same division 191 ship 11.
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Today I got the box. My daughter's recruiter gave me her address Ship 11 div 192. Still waiting for form letter.
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Welcome cupikake!
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