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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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How did you know he was in THU?
Hi Debbie,
So your son graduated and then they decided they may send him home??? That is crazy. My son is being SEP'd and I believe is on Ship 5 where they house THU as well. He is hoping that he will be able to re-enlist but he will probbaly need a waiver as well.
I am assuming your son had a heart defect and that was the need for surgury? My daughter (12yrs old) was born with Tretolgy of Fallot. Glad to hear that his heart didn't hold him back from pursueing what he wanted to do. That's great he was able to switch to something else and not have to leave the Navy.
My son was on ADD meds while in high school and had been off since May. He wasn't hyper just needed help concentrating on things he was bored with like math and science. His recruiter said don't disclose you were on the meds unless you are currently taking them and he wasn't at the time. So then they found out and said he wasn't off them long enough. He went round and round with them. they said it was an issue so they gave him an evalutaion in there and he did fine on it. Even though they put him back into a division. (He had been in RCU for an injury.) So they requested his medical records from his dr back home and then they pulled him back out of his division he just got back into and then said he was being sent home.
It is so hard on these kids.this is all he has ever wanted to do was be in the military. Didn't even care what branch. Jobs are so scarece around here especially with just a high school diploma. I hope that he can get back in and they don't code his paperwork with something that will prevent that.
Hi Debbie TGA is complicated We have formed a group here in our community of families with children who have a CHD and we raise money for the Childrens Heart Foundation. One or two of our members also has TGA. what my daughter is actually several different defects and thats why they call it TOF. Her TOF is pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect. . Yes we are so lucky with the advances they have made in the medical field with heart conditions. She had a valve replacement done earlier this year in the cath lab! We were so relived they could do it there instead of having to open her up again. She is an athlete and that would have put her out of commission for several months. Instead she was down just a couple of days. she is doing great thanks for asking!
My fear is that they won't grant him a waiver if they say he tried to enter fraudulently.That I believe is and RE-4 with no possibility of re-enlistment. I don't know when he goes to see legal but I just hope that they grant him a waiver and he can get back in.
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