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In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).  

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Mail Call Question

I know they get to write on Sundays and mail is delivered to them every night Mon-Friday but do they get to read letters each night or do they have to wait until Sunday? Common sense tells me they get to read each night for daily (hopefully) motivation but at this point...I'm not sure about much in way of their timelines LOL

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Permalink Reply by SaltyMom17 on July 1, 2017 at 11:08am
Thank you, hooyahsuzy! That's what I was hoping to read! P.S. love the username!
Permalink Reply by yg09674 on July 1, 2017 at 4:05pm
Hi my name is Yanet. Just joined the navy moms. This coming Thursday, July 6 it's going to be three weeks that my son is in boot camp. I haven't heard from him yet. I'm waiting to receive a letter from him so I can start writing to him. Not knowing anything about my son is driving me crazy.
Permalink Reply by Rebecca on July 2, 2017 at 11:31am
It was about 3 and half weeks before I got the letter with my daughters address. Then I got a 3 min call a week or so after that. All together I have only got 2 letters. I just write letters and mail.them daily so she knows I am thinking of her. Be strong.
Permalink Reply by andybug on July 2, 2017 at 1:37pm

Received our first letter the other day. My son is not one to write, so for him to write meant a lot. I encourage you to send their info to close friends and family. My son is extremely homesick and said that bootcamp isn't easy. He said the letters help a lot, I get everyone I can to write him :).

Permalink Reply by Counting Fridays on July 2, 2017 at 1:57pm

My son arrived June 28 so I don't have the Form Letter info yet. Still, I've been writing every day and putting little numbers in the envelope corner to mail once I have direction. I find it really amusing to make up questionnaires as suggested - it helps me focus on asking what I really want to know and hopefully makes it easier for him to provide an answer.  It's also a way to inject some humor which is good for everybody, right? Including a stamp can't hurt either!

Permalink Reply by Tamala on July 25, 2017 at 2:55pm
My boyfriend arrive on June 28th. We got a call from him that day that was very short and about 3 days later we got his graduation date letter. About 2 weeks later I received my first relay letter from him and a few days after that I got about a 30 minute call from him
Permalink Reply by NukeMomInTexas on August 2, 2017 at 10:44pm
Someone told me not to write my son a bunch of letters because they make fun of them or he will have to do extra push-ups to get them. Is that true?
Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on August 4, 2017 at 12:33am

NukeMomInTexas, WRITE to your recruit! My son had told me before he shipped to write only once a week and I did as he asked although I did give his address and even gave preaddressed and stamped cards out to his friends any time anyone asked about him. After BC, he said that he wished he'd never told me not to write more than one letter a week because mail was like gold.

See Letter Writing & Fun Stuff/Questionnaires to send to your Recruit.

Permalink Reply by NukeMomInTexas on August 4, 2017 at 11:08am

that was the response I was hoping for! thank you!!!

Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on August 4, 2017 at 8:00pm

You are very welcome.

Permalink Reply by andybug on August 6, 2017 at 2:08pm

It all depends on the Commander in charge of their division . My son just graduated and I asked a lot of questions. My son lucked out and his Commander never gave his division a hard time about mail. They look forward to mail call,so if he does have to do a few extra pushups it's worth it to them. 

Permalink Reply by Leahsmommy on August 8, 2017 at 9:44pm
My daughter is at boot camp right now. Beginning week 4 and she asked for postage stamps. lol I just sent her 2 books of stamps.

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