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The "box"
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Permalink Reply by Debi (Ship 9 Div 126) on
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The Box" is really hard! When my oldest son went into the Navy reserves 2 years ago I had no warning of THE BOX, I recieved it on my day off and nobody was , I remember being so happy that he sent me a "present", WOW was I surprized!I was histerical for hours! So when my second son left for BC on 2/8 I prepared myself for "the box" so even when I recieved it on Valentines Day I was ready. Don't get me wrong I still cried, but it was easier this time,I just had to share The Present expierence with you, and I hope it made you laugh
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Permalink Reply by Mom of Marcus on
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My son graduated boot camp last Sept. I still have "the box". I couldn't bring myself to open it when it arrived. Finally opened it wen I headed to graduation because he wanted his phone. Oh!! Let everyone know they take the battery out of the phone and drop it in a shoe. I got to Chicago with the phone and no battery in it! Now his box holds momentos.
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Permalink Reply by zacksmom on
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Funny how we react to the BOX! I unpacked mine as fast as possible. Cherishing that the things in it were the last things he wore. I washed them and put them away and started a new box with the things he would want after bootcamp. You know, the phone! I think I still have the box. It had his handwriting on it. Before you know it, you will be heading to PIR! I just got back and it was amazing!! Harder than sending him to bootcamp and getting the box was saying goodbye and dropping him off at the base in Great Lakes. It was the darkest, coldest, rainiest night I can ever remember. He was a man full of pride and ready to fly.
Hi to the other Zacksmom!!
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Permalink Reply by Kenny's Mom on
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Hi Zaksmom :)
When I got "the box" I did not even want to open it. Once I did I could not stop crying because i realized that the son that left with those clothes on is not the son that I will get back. I am very proud of him, but part of me hurt because I felt like I lost a part of me. I hope you hear from him soon :) Take care...
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I like your BOX story Debi!! It's cute. Thinking your son sent you a present. Made me smile this morning. :)
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Permalink Reply by Lamarmama 09/139 on
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I got my box on Wed of this week. I just kind of held it for awhile, then I opened it. I cried for a moment and then I started to laugh. Nothing was folded up, his things were just thrown in there, but thats my boy. It still sitting in the same spot as I write this, but I will move it into his bedroom tonight and save it for him as a keepsake if he so wishes. Miss that boy of mine.
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Permalink Reply by christine (ship 09 div 139) on
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i got "the box" this past Tuesday... crazy since he had just left Thursday and Monday was a holiday... i read a lot of story's about "the box", so i had time to prepare myself (thank goodness for this site!), but i had a major melt down on Saturday, before "the box" came.. lol... i felt like a high school kid, i was sitting on the floor of a hotel in the women's bathroom (at a party) and it just over took me... someone had asked if i had heard from Tyler and that's all she wrote... my husband was even in the women's bathroom on the floor, consoling me... i look back and can laugh about it... but i just took his clothes out and washed them... i think i will keep "the box" for memories!...
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no from Fort Meade in Baltimore (it's not really Baltimore, but that's what they say)... why?... did your son leave the 17th also?
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Permalink Reply by WhiteClay Ship 2 Div 913 on
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If you watch the videos of what it's like for them to strip down & chuck stuff in the box you wouldn't expect it to be folded, and definitely no note inside. My son said this weekend after graduation that he figured out that they would never give you enough time to do whatever they asked, (shave, put your stuff in the box etc) so he just made sure he was never one of the last 5 or 6 for anything, because they would be the ones that the RDC's would yell at. I asked why the pant legs of his jeans came home rolled up, and he said he guessed they were checking to make sure no one had any stuff hidden in their socks or whatever. One more thing, I finally washed his clothes a couple weeks after he left, then we used THE BOX to take back the stuff he requested for A school. It turned out that the storage locker only had room for his laptop, quilt, several tshirts & jeans, so the cowboy boots came back with us.
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Permalink Reply by Zacksmom on
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I did watch the video's on You Tube and Wow they are not kidding when they say that they don't even have time to breath... Very extensive training was displayed in those video's.... My Son will go to A School after Graduation too... This is a whole new world for Zack and Mom too... :)
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