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SEALs/BUDs
If your recruit is a SEAL candidate you may have questions or concerns. Training for SEALs has many parts and hopefully we can make this journey a little easier.
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Permalink Reply by AZKmom on
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Another SEAL group besides this discussion page? Where? Though sometimes as I find out more information and not like what I'm learning, my husband tells me to stop doing that to myself and stop reading. I want to "know" and I don't want to "know".....know what I mean?
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Permalink Reply by sjtina on
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AZKmom I am the same way. You will all end up in the other groups eventually. After graduation they become a buds class. Possibly 2 9 3 and there will be a group for that too. lol
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Permalink Reply by navywife on
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I'm on FB and "liked" the RTC page. I might check out the SEAL group, but I don't want to get ahead of myself.
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If you are on Facebook, RTC has a page that is really helpful and fun. Pictures of past graduations, contests where you win a picture of your child's divison, etc. Check it out. Tomorrow is their trivia Tuesday contest at 10 a.m. CST. I will be trying to win a picture of Division 801!
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Well ladies....how was the first letter? Mine said they were beginning to come together as a group but that their main problem seemed to be talking too much. I'm in contact with a dad on FB who said his son wrote that they got IT (intensive training) for the first time. Any other information from your SR's? I'm excited to hear from him again this week!
I made a reservation at the Homewood Suites in Lincolnshire for Wednesday and Thursday. Still not sure about our holiday meal. I might cook there (it has a kitchen) or go to a brunch somewhere. We live close enough that we can drive back and forth the rest of the days of the weekend. His girlfriend will be on break and she actually lives in Illinois, so we're going to give our son to her and her family one of those days.
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I've participated the past 2 weeks in Trivia Tuesday. I had the right answer both times, just not fast enough. My son's girlfriend is trying too. We also both have tried Wacky Wednesday, too. I love hearing information from other letters. I hate hearing about guys having to drop. I know if it were my son he would be devastated. My son mentioned a guy that had an asthma attack during IT. Swimming with bricks? Wow. I can't wait for November 23rd! I love looking at the graduation pictures each week on the Facebook page. Have the rest of you 801 moms ordered ribbons from the woman on here that does PIR ribbons?
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My son mentioned the boy who had the asthma attack too. So sad! I haven't ordered ribbons....don't know if I'm going to. My son said that he's met a lot of nice guys and that some of them were talking about taking their last few days of Christmas break to fly to Colorado and ski. I can just see one of them ending up with a broken femur bone or something. LOL! I think I worry about him getting injured more than he does.
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Oh the skiing sounds awesome! Wish I could go. Our kids learned to ski out in Colorado when they were very little. I won a ski trip to Telluride on Wheel of Fortune many years ago. I'm sure my son would love to do that. My husband used to do ski patrol at a local ski hill here in SE Wisconsin (nothing like skiing out west). But I think he has committed to helping out his former high school wrestling team at practices and a tournament they do over Christmas break. He used to wrestle in college too and would always help with coaching whenever he was home. He would also like to spend a few days with his girlfriend before she heads to the Caribbean for a winterim college class. I worry about injury also. Knowing the very low success rate for actually making it to SEAL, my husband is predicting that he won't 'ring the bell" but that it will be an injury of some sort that will end it for him. I'm afraid he'll ignore something that would be "fixable" and that it will become "unfixable" if you know what I mean.
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I've had that same conversation concerning ignoring an injury with my son as well. Although I'm not sure he listened to me. We have a good friend who went through BUDS twice....he got rolled into another class the first time because of an injury and the second time he had to quit because of the same injury. At least with an injury they can have a second chance, but who wants to repeat HELL WEEK? I'm hoping they don't go skiing so he doesn't run the risk of injury.
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