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what to expect when he leaves for boot camp
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Permalink Reply by ChrisAmo on
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You will get to write to each other. You can write to him every day if you wish. He can only write to you once a week. About a week to 10 days after he gets there his folks will get an official letter with his address. Start writing NOW so you can mail letters to him as soon as you find out his address. They love to get mail though they won't be given their mail for the first 2 weeks. After that, they can write letters on Sundays, mailed on Mondays and you should get them Wed. or Thurs. depending on where you live. Don't send anything but letters in a plain envelope. No cards (especially musical ones), print out photos on plain paper (as many as you can fit on a page) so that they'll fold up easily. They have very little storage space. My son would write to his girlfriend one week and to us the next. We'd share the letters between us.
He should get to make a phone call about week 3 and may get another one as a reward for good work. Then there'll be the call after Battlestations (the final test) which will say "I'm a sailor!." My son would call me and ask me to call his girlfriend and pass the news on to her. I hope you have a good relationship with his folks.
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Permalink Reply by ColleenJacksGirl (Ship07Div 245) on
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Thank you so much for your information I actually just dropped him off to his dad before he leaves. It was very hard, I have a really good relationship with his mom not his dad though. Hopefully it all works out. I have another question, after bootcamp when the family goes to see them do they get to stay in the hotel with there family?
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thanks so much, Its almost week 2 and i have wrote him everyday. My friends have wrote him too and i stick them in with my letters. Also I have another question. I think his A school is in pensacola and people were saying how he might only get a day with me since his A school is not on GL do u no if thats true for all of them?
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Permalink Reply by Birdiejr on
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When you start writing your letters (before you get the address) be sure to number them on the outside of the envelope (I put a number circled under my return address). This will help him when he gets the first bulk of letters from you so he reads them in order.
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MAN! i wish u would of said that 3 days ago i just mailed all my letters then and now i mail one a day. I did put the date on the letter at the top so hopefully he will get it and put them in order. lol thank you tho
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