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When does your DEPPER leave?
Post the day and year that you or your DEPPER is shipping out.
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Permalink Reply by Janice - Ike Sailor Mom on
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Hello all! My son, Steven, leaves 11/18/09. His schooling will also be in GL. Will be very hard this holiday season without him. I hope they at least get to call home on Christmas. We will be having an early Thanksgiving dinner the weekend before he leaves. Please pray for me that I will keep it all together until after he is gone. He will have a hard enough time with his girlfriend...so mom needs to be strong! :-)
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Permalink Reply by Grasshopper on
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Hi Janice...My son leaves on 11/18/09 also. He will then go to MA (Master at Arms) training. We are having an early Thanksgiving party for Philip. My Mom has lived with us the last three years and has end stage COPD. She's really been going down hill these last few months so I just pray nothing happens to her while he's in BC. It would be really hard on him if it did. Other than that I am so proud of him but so dreading since he is the youngest of my three Boys. Glad to have Navy4Moms here to see that so many other Moms are going through the same thing! I will be praying for you and maybe our sons will meet up in GL.
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Permalink Reply by Margaret_ProudTexasMomof2Sailors on
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Grasshopper, I am so sorry to hear about your Mom. I would talk to your son before he leaves and ask him how he would want to hear if anything should happen to her. In my other son's PIR group, one of the recruits father died. His wife contacted the American Red Cross. They were able to get in contact with him. He was granted a three day leave for the funeral. He was able to return and graduated on time.
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Thanks for this advice. I did talk to Philip about this to make sure what he would want me to do. He does want me to call the Red Cross but it was good to have this conversation before he left to know that I was following his wishes.
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grasshopper,
Just wondering if you have received a letter yet? My daughter left the same day as your son. I received the box in the mail but not personal letter yet. It is so hard not to worry about it. I thought they were able to write on sundays so it should be here by now I would think. -
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Hi Janice,
How are you holding up today? It's been a terrible day for me! Got my 30 second call around 10:00 last night. All I have been able to do today is cry even though I am so very proud of him! It would just help so much to have a couple of minutes to talk to him but...I know it's going to get better.
Hope you are doing okay and your days get better. We will focus on graduation!! -
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Hello everyone. My son is being picked up on Nov. 22nd and leaving for bootcamp on Nov.23rd. I had planned Thanksgiving for the 22nd, but of course plans have changed. We'll definitely have it before he leaves. I'm excited because I know he's doing something good for himself. My husband and I are very proud of him. While it's difficult, it is such a good feeling to see our children succeed. We will miss him terribly and the holidays will be very different. However, there comes a time when we have to let our children go and become adults. He is 20 years old and I know he'll be well taken care of. He was a little hesitant about two weeks ago. I think he began to realize the depth of the commitment he made in Jan. 2009. It's been a long wait and alot of time to think about changing his mind. Now he is okay with it, a little hesitant but also excited. That's only natural.
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Hi, luvmyboy. My son leaves the 23rd also. Where will your son be leaving from? We are in So. Cal. We can ride these crazy waves together. UGH!
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Hi mhill. My son will be leaving from Brooklyn, NY. We live in Queens, which is another borough of New York City. Sorry it took so long for me to reply.
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Permalink Reply by Penny_Nuke_MM2_NimitzNuke on
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My son flew out on November 25 and is in S11. Love to hear how things have gone so far; have you gotten "the box" yet?
My son is 22 years old and was so ready to go as well. He was ready to take his college experience thus far and turn it into something even better. John will be going on after this to Navy Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC) in South Carolina where he will spend 18 months in a school environment.
While I'm so proud of him and his choice, I just can't stop crying as of yet. Don't quite know why I'm having such a difficult time but know that it should get better (I hope) once I can hear from him. -
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My son leaves Nov 23- he only signed up last week. Whirlwind........ So much for me to learn since we are newbies to all of this!
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Hi garda. Wow, I can't believe they took him so quickly. My son signed up on 1/30/09. It has been such a long wait. This website has all the information you need. It is absolutely amazing. I feel for you though. Only a little more than a month to adjust, but we all know they will be well taken care of. I gonna just go with the flow.
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