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Ship 12/ Division 356

Looking forward to hearing from others with loved ones in this division. :)

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Permalink Reply by Ghwild5 on September 29, 2011 at 5:28pm
Oh happy day...another letter. If we feel this good getting mail, just imagine how they must feel! Only 4 weeks and a wake up!
Permalink Reply by springfire on September 30, 2011 at 12:03am
Received a long letter from our son, it felt so good. He took his Navy Seal physical test to get a tryout for buds and passed. I am so happy for him, he is living his dream.
Permalink Reply by KimberlyAnn on September 30, 2011 at 9:18am
@springfire-NOW  that is awesome news! Such an admirable accomplishment... thrilled for you! The Seal team is such a close family, we have many friends  we are blessed to include in our extended Navy family who are Seals, it takes someone very special to dedicate their life to the work they do, you have every right to be proud! My SR also mentioned his closest friends are from Cuba, Africa, and Texas. He said they have come together from all over the world. We received two more letters yesterday, and news of letters to his friends, and grandparents has also gotten back to us...Have a great weekend!
Permalink Reply by KimberlyAnn on September 30, 2011 at 9:21am

When I spoke with my SR, he mentioned that there are 87 in their division, unless I miscounted, there are about 6 of us on here...just wondering where the other 80 or so are???

Permalink Reply by treemanjlp on September 30, 2011 at 11:19am

Yesterday marked the half way point, GO RECRUITS GO!!!!

Permalink Reply by treemanjlp on September 30, 2011 at 11:24am
Justin said he is friends with Blake from Georgia.  I sent them the parent questionaire at Justin's request.  I guess his friend liked it so much he wanted to send it to his family.  He said they are struggling a little due to several recruits having colds.  They can't stop fidgeting while standing at attention.  This too shall pass.......
Permalink Reply by treemanjlp on September 30, 2011 at 5:50pm
More letters came in the mail today.  Our Recruit has a new best friend, Taylor. Justin has achieved Petty Officer 2nd Class.  Does anyone know what this means and can he lose it?  I'm just proud of him for the achievement.  Anyone else hear about their Recruits' achievements or awards?
Permalink Reply by Ghwild5 on September 30, 2011 at 7:42pm
It means he is now a higher rank....more money. No, they can't take it away (unless he did something REALLY bad.)
Permalink Reply by My sailor's ladybug (356) on October 1, 2011 at 10:38pm
My boyfriend called tonight for about ten minutes, but called his mother....so I have not be able to talk to him besides in letters. I guess I am going to write him a letter and put my number in it.
Permalink Reply by springfire on October 4, 2011 at 11:06pm

Received a few letters from SR, he seems to be doing good.  He is definitly in a learning mode, learning to do things the Navy way.  They have some hard weeks ahead but they all seem up to the challenges.   I wish them all the very best, God bless them all.

Permalink Reply by springfire on October 5, 2011 at 9:22pm
Hello everyone! I am hopeful that we have someone in our Ship 12 Division 356 who is good at Navy trivia. On the bootcamp site on Facebook they do trivia on Tuesday and Wednesday and the winner gets a division photo on Facebook. I haven't done well so far but I was trying. Division 360 won this week, hopefully we can win next week. Would be great to see our division.
Permalink Reply by My sailor's ladybug (356) on October 5, 2011 at 10:15pm

I need help...I have never had to plan a trip before. I'm trying to firgure out if we should drive which is about 1,440 round trip or fly up to GL. Here is my problem I have never been on a plane...yet. I also will be traveling with two young children(7 and 1) and maybe my boyfriend's mother. I know it is like three weeks until PIR and I should have already done this, but between his mother and I can't figure out which one we would like to do.

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