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Sundays
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Permalink Reply by JessicaB-Sailor Mom on
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Sundays are considered "Holiday" and the rcts get to relax, shower, go to church, anything but sleep till 1pm
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Permalink Reply by RWG (ship 09, div. 206) on
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Thanks Jessica,
Thats good news
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Permalink Reply by jbalesi on
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Yes, the first two weeks are extremely intense.... very little sleep the first week with all of the processing in medical and getting yelled at, and the second week is the same except they can now start doing the typical "drop and give me 50" type stuff. However, as more time goes on, the RDC's get a little more lax and will randomly give you time to write letters. Sundays from 7 to 11/12 they have "holiday", as said before, and they can go to church if they want, or do like most people do, take a 30 minute shower and then write letters for a couple hours. However, the RDC's expect everyone's uniforms to be ironed perfectly, everything in their rack to be perfect, boots to be shiny, etc during this time too, so often times I found I was busy during these hours.
All in all, your recruit should have time to write a quick letter or two every now and then. HOWEVER, they have time every night to read mail that you send them, so send them lots of letters! I received letters from people I didn't even expect to get things from, and it made me so happy. Plus you know other people are jealous when you get 10 letters at a time, when some only get 1 or so a day. A funny thing that someone's mom did while I was there was they sent their recruit 50 letters in one day! I think they were all filled with a sentence or two each, but I'm pretty sure it made the guy really happy, and everyone kinda got a kick out of it.
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Thanks jbalesi,
I thought about sending him fake letters from about 30 girls claming to be his girlfriend and their Dads are hunting for him lol
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