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Permalink Reply by mamasea on
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ramada inn. Thought it would be easier to stay where the meet and greet is and looked like best amenities for the price. Got decent price on tickets will have to drive to Raleigh but everything close by left either at 6am or 6pm finally gave up and just booked the flight and got good deal on car with booking flight and car together. My daughter in law and I are so excited now that everything is in place can't wait to get a big hug. Hope everyone has a wonderful mothers day. I get to celebrate my birthday also which is bitter sweet without my son here to join me.
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Permalink Reply by reenis35 on
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thats where I`ll be staying too.. won`t make the meet and greet thou.. Is today your birthday? It`s my husband`s today. I`m flying in from florida ..the only non stop flight so I`ll be landing 2 820 pm
My Sr`s dad is flying in from NY he`ll be @ the meet and greet with my son ..
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tomorrow is my birthday. anyone born in may is great though lol! My Sr's birthday is the sunday after graduation so trying to figure out what I can get him for his birthday that he can carry with him. We've been told that if we go to the airport with him we can give him his phone and laptop to carry with him. Can't wait until we can at least talk on the phone regularly
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I received a nice long letter, from my SR, yesterday and he said that DIV 189 is really starting to "come-together" with drilling & marching! My SR said he is involved in helping to design their division flag. He wrote about his "classification" meeting and said that he was told that his A School was shortened from 8 weeks to 6 weeks and that he could possibly have 14 days "leave" when A school is finished (before reporting to his 1st duty station). He said they had recently had a class on "Rape & Sexual Harrasement" and they were also learning how to use a weapon last week. He asked if we could possibly attend a Cubs game, after graduation on the 3rd, but I checked the Cubs schedule and they are playing in St. Louis (not Chicago) on that day. He'd had his teeth cleaned and a sealant applied to his teeth (luckily no other dental work needed)! His entire letter was VERY positive and I am soooooooo excited that graduation day is ONLY 22 days away!!! 3 weeks, from tonight, I'll be at the Waukegan, IL hotel counting the hours till I get to give him an enormous HUG! It will be so hard to know he is just a couple of miles away and I have to stay away from RTC until Friday morning...but you can bet I'll be one of the first to arrive, at PIR, on that wonderful morning! And I'll be on the constant look-out to see if I can get an early glimpse of him! Make sure to take binoculars, to graduation, so you can possibly pick them out of the division when they come marching in that big door!
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Thats wonderful !! I got a letter from my daughter she said that Battlestations was changed from may 31 to may 26
did your son mention anything about it?
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My son did not mention Battlestations, in his letter, but I think having it on May 26 makes MORE sense! Having it on the 31 is way to close to gradution if, heaven forbid, they failed it and had to re-do! Did your daughter's letter sound "positive"? Did she have any other info you want to share? I forgot to mention that my son said they had received their 2nd haircut, last week, and he thought they didn't do a very good job for the $7 it cost him! That was about the only truely negative thing he had to say.
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I must say this last letter I got was her first bad letter.. She sounded somewhat annoyed for lack of a better word with the few recruits that have not taken this commitment serious enough.. aside from her sounding a bit homesick thats all she said ...I wish I could hug her because thats what it sounded like she needed when she wrote this letter.. I`m sure by the next letter she will be her upbeat self again.
June 3rd can`t get here fast enough.
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Don't worry the letter we got from my son the first of the week he was ready to quit, because of getting a white card? His next letter was up beat and ready to get bc over with. I think hell week was getting to them all. 21 days!
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Not sure what that is. White is one step under a black card. Black card is worse. Give them more intense IT. Don't know if he said why they got it. His last letter they were working on weapons and would be doing the gas chamber. That sounds terrible to me but my niece said it wasn't that bad and she would do it again. They were having weapon inspections and Physical test last tuesday(May 10). They were going to be doing fire stations and other than that not much else.
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