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My Recruit has a birthday while at RTC
Can anyone tell me what to expect for my son on his birthday, It falls on a Saturday around the 6 week mark .
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Permalink Reply by AKMammabear on
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My boy turns 18 here in a few days... This will be the first ever birthday that we do not celebrate together and I hope he is handeling it better than his brother and I am...
Happy birthday to all the other kiddos out there who are celebrating during bootcamp!
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Permalink Reply by NNLori on
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Awww! I hear ya! Today is my sons 19th birthday. I'm really missing him today! He left on 8/23. I can't even send a card until I get his address. Kind of stinks. We did celebrate before he left but its hard to not even get to talk to him on his special day. I guess a lot of them do it and they manage. I'm sure ours will too!
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Permalink Reply by Jo 4 Bama on
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My son will be celebrating his 21st bday at boot camp/ first one without family. Makes me sad
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Its hard I know. I just keep thinking they don't really have the time to be sad about it so that is a good thing.
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That would be awesome!! I've heard such a large variety of time frames for receiving the letter so I expect the worst and hope for the best!
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Permalink Reply by NavyMamaB on
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Same here my son has a birthday in September as well. It's true it's probably another day in BC but to me it's the first birthday I do not get to celebrate with my son. Some might consider it a "special" birthday since he is officially out of his "teens". Will probably send a generic I miss you card and write happy birthday on it so that I don't draw any attention to him. Do any of you know if they (RC's)read their mail?
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Permalink Reply by CryptoDad on
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Nobody reads your Recruit's mail without permission.
And fwiw, we inundated our Recruit with birthday mail for the 2 weeks leading up to the actual day. No repercussions.
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I got my box!!! It's the first step ladies!! No letter but I really wasn't expecting one. I wrote this somewhere else so I apologize if you read this already but I wanted to make sure you ladies (JamieA and Timsmom97) knew I got it since we had been talking about it for about a WEEK!!! LOL! I'm sure I'll calm down eventually. Now I'm on the look out for the letter!! Have a good day everyone!
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Permalink Reply by JamieA on
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Hi NNLori! I saw that you posted it on the bootcamp group Lol. I'm so happy you got yours already. And also Happy 1week to us! lol
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Oh and btw if you want to follow the PIR October 20, 2017, im already in it. I just want to let you know that they have one already :)
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I've been looking at it. I haven't joined yet, I'm waiting for the letter to confirm his PIR date. As soon as I know for sure I will join!!
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NNLori, Do you have a FB account? I'm already on the RTC group they are active and very helpful too!
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