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Leaving for Boot Camp the Week of October 25th 2010
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Permalink Reply by Nancy on
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I will poke around, but Kathy knows how to start a discussion for sure. However, if we start a GROUP we can CHAT!!! YAY!!
Also, I get what you meant about changing our status. I just went and looked on my page and there IS nothing between waiting for BC and enlisted...so I don't know what we put, we are obviously not still waiting for BC (OK...some of us are...but not by the end of the week).
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Permalink Reply by NC_Susan on
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That is exactly what I do! I go to my email and click on all the responses in the order they are put up. Its a pain, but the only way I can keep up with everything. Susan
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me too...so frustrating. Chat would be nicer. Kathy, even if we set up an interim group that we could access...we might need it after we find out PIR dates. there is no guarantee that we will be together, and really i NEED you guys!! LOL
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Permalink Reply by KLMkathy on
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Wendi, Enlisted was the only choice that looked right. When they swore in today it was for real and they really are enlisted now. Of course they still have to get through boot camp. It sounds nice, enlisted. I am so glad you don't feel like crying. I hope it lasts for all of us. Hugs. Kathy
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Elizabeth, You will feel this way, I promise!! I feel so much better tonight than earlier today. I am pretty surprised by it :) Susan
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Permalink Reply by jordansmom on
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Watched Jordan board the bus to the airport at 1:15. He called from the airport just to check in and we just got a call from him from the Chicago airport. The military personnel there told them to eat now because they won't get to eat until 6:30 tomorrow morning and they won't be getting any sleep tonight. And so it begins.
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Permalink Reply by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on
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YAY for Jordan! Sounds like a busy, busy night for all of them.
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Oh boy...I hate that this night is going to be so miserable for them! Susan
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Congratulations. He got there. I have been reading the HCC book and that is what it said. No sleep or food tonight. They will be busy. Yes, and so it begins. Kathy
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I need to get that book. Can I get it at Barnes & Noble?? Don't want to wait for Amazon and can't get it on the Kindle...already tried twice!!
OK...I gotta go, my poor husband is cooking dinner all by himself! Don't feel sorry for him though, he is a better cook than I. Sad, but true!!
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Oh!!!! I forgot to tell you that at MEPS there was a family there and the Dad's brother is in the Navy and works at GL. He said that his brother told him graduation would be Dec 22! I thought, What the Heck!, that is a Wednesday and nothing has been said about Dec 22. I mentioned to him that I thought there was stand-down after Dec 17, but he didn't know what I was talking about. I don't know, I wasn't going to argue with a guy who has a family member that works there! I really hope he was wrong, but I wanted to let everyone know. Susan
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