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RCU SHIP 04 DIV 741
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Seamen Recruits are here getting medical treatment for minor injuries. FIT DIV is also in this area.
Location: RTC Chicago, IL
Members: 204
Latest Activity: 6 hours ago
It's hard not knowing! That is the purpose for this group. Most likely if you are here your SR has had trouble keeping up or not passed a PFA due to some sort of minor medical issue. Often it stress fractures bringing SR's here. Know this when you don’t get a call that is a very good thing. Calling them is not a good thing and it can negatively impact your SR to have his or her “Mommy“ calling! They are harder on them in this DIV than any other. They want them up and out. The best thing you can do is sends tons of mail. Send scripture and motivational mail. I know my SR said reading the Bible was considered a sign of weakness here. When you get a tearful call motivate. Stay positive and encourage you SR. This is a small detour to greatness and getting the I'm a Sailor call! Recruit family and friends…“Navy mom friends are the best“…to send your SR mail as well. NMH for you all!!
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NOT KNOWING
Started by Navyvet. Last reply by Navyvet Jul 13, 2021. 2 Replies 0 Likes
My daughter left June 30, 21 ended up being sent to the ER before going to RTC to have her gall bladder removed. She left the hospital on July 5th and is now in RCU. I have not heard from her to see…Continue
Looking for an explanation of the RCU process- please share your insight!
Started by KarinD Mar 18, 2021. 0 Replies 0 Likes
My son was sent to the RCU unit on 3.8.21 for having an inhalant in his medical record for treatment of bronchitis/pleurisy when he was 15 yrs old.Would someone be kind enough to explain the process…Continue
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Comment by Staci 6 hours ago
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TravelinMom, those are great stories! My son said they had a shoe shine competition coming up, I’ll ask him about the parade gloss. I’ll have to tell him about D&D too, I could see him doing something like that.
Luckily he can get books, though he’s running out of space for them. He was told he needed 39 stamps to mail a book home - of course since he’s on crutches he can’t go to the NEX and buy any. We told him it’s cheaper to donate it to the library and buy a new one if he ever wanted to read it again.
He only got a 5min call last week though because several recruits were acting out. They’ve had people from a couple of other divisions (swimmers and FIT I think) temporarily moved to their spaces because they were causing trouble and had to have their compartments inspected by NCIS (I think that was the acronym). There were 3 separate incidents (one involved ~30 people out of a group of 40). It was almost as though the whole place went crazy for a week. Things seemed to be back to normal on his last call though. He does regularly tell us he likes receiving letters so I’m trying to get everyone he knows to write.
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Comment by TravelinMom 7 hours ago
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When he graduated, they had him in Holding for a bit on RTC until they got his orders cut for his A school. Once he got to Pensacola, one of his duties while awaiting his classes to begin (called Classing Up) was being a spotter in the van that picks up the recruits from the airport. So he'd go collect the new sailors fresh from RTC. I asked him why he didn't want to be a driver. He said he didn't want to take that many lives into his hands - good call! He was a new driver when he went in the Navy at 17! But he apparently loved regaling riders of the van with his RCU stories.
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Yes, it's a serious challenge for them and a lot of them separate. When my son first got to RCU, 4 recruits had messed up ("hooked up in the laundry room as he reported it) and caused everyone to get punished - they secured all movies, books, games everything for many, many weeks -nearly the whole time he was there in fact. They overcame that eventually by playing D&D when they could - with a piece of wadded up paper! LOL - nothing like innovation and imagination! For a while we couldn't send him books either, but apparently my boy got so good at polishing shoes, they did allow us to send him that crazy parade gloss shoe polish and he relayed the story about how upon inspection, the RDC or whomever's eyes bugged out and he used some creative swearing and said his boots were ACTUAL mirrors - hehe. Cracked me up, the way he told it though.
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Thanks B’sNuke & Travelin Moms! After talking to him I’m almost more impressed that he’s making it through this than I was the core bootcamp training. Lol
They say he has a good 6-7+ weeks to go.
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Staci - so happy for y'all! I know it's a big deal for you, too!
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Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on Monday
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Staci - that is fantastic news!
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After ~six weeks in RCU my recruit was just liberated from his crutches and is on to Phase 2 of his recovery!!
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Thank you such much for the response TravelinMom. I was hoping he’d get to go through the ceremony. Seems like it would be another big milestone in the transition from recruit to sailor. I know the biggest deal is probably when they get their swap out recruit caps for navy after Battlestations. But the “pubolic” PIR ceremony is where they get to share their accomplishment w/loved ones. Would be a bummer if they missed out after all the hard work!
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class up, meaning for a class to form for the schooling he needed. They are in their barracks in the meantime so that isn't an issue. They basically spend the time working on quals for various watches, and performing said watches. Will likely be assigned a work group for various tasks around base - at A school.
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Yes. My kid went through PIR but was in holding for about a month after that at RTC because they had to cut new orders. After exiting RCU he had 2 weeks of BC to complete and it wasn't enough time for his updated orders. Anyway, he was sent to A school and it took a few months to class up but all went smoothly after that. Battlestations won't be a problem at all, even with the new ship your sailor will be in. Also, if you had tickets to PIR, just make sure he double checks with his new Div about the tickets, but that wasn't a problem in the end, either.
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