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Ship 03 Division 071
Any one with loved ones in this division yet? My daughter left Dec 12th. I haven't received a letter yet from her, but I was able to get the Information from the recruiter.
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Permalink Reply by momofSR03/071 on
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Awwww what a great story. You hang in there. You've got a great guy. Every time I've run into someone who serves or servd in the past I've always thanked them. Most smile & say your welcome Maam. I've had a couple get tears in their eyes when that's happened.....its not good when I'm at work...always means a no sale for me but that's ok. I remember when someone from our town did the same for my son when they found out he joined the navy(it was at his brothers football game). Everyone here thank your SRs for me for their service& sacrifice. My sons girlfriend supports his decision to be there. He really didn't give her much of a choice. He stated he was joining whether or not she supported it.
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Permalink Reply by mrsreynoldsx3 on
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Thank you both,. I lucked out with him <3 And thanks for all the information. I know it's going to be super hard, but from what I've gathered, being a Seabee, he won't get deployed as often because he shouldn't ever need to step foot on a ship. He should only be gone 6 months at a time, and hopefully we will be able to contact each other almost everyday =) The internet is a beautiful thing! I don't know how you did it years ago, I would have been a wreck! You sound like you have a wonderful family, and great kids. I hope our daughter is as well rounded from this experience =). This whole thing is kind of scary but your right, I need to embrace it fully, and I hope I do,. maybe he will retire from the military?? We will see. I hope the girlfriend likes the Navy experience as well. I'm waiting for the mail man now (the roads are terrible so he might be late) Fingers crossed.
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Permalink Reply by Tish Navymom/wife on
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breaks my heart you didnt get your letter today, I have my fingers crossed for you for tomorrow. Sounds like he is making friends with Momofsr03/071's son :-) thats awesome!
Thanks for the compliment, I am so proud of all three of them.
I dont know who cried harder when my husband retired, me or him lol, I miss being around the military here, thats why we drive drown to Great Lakes every couple of months. My husband is now working on his second career, but we will always have that retirement check and medical, so if he were to ever get laid off we can survive on it and not have to worry about losing our house like so many others are doing today.
Good luck tomorrow! Im rooting for ya!!!
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I'm so upset. My husband fell asleep!! He works 3rd shift and he's in bed not standing by the mailbox. Ugh. I work till 6 ill die if I don't find out if letters are there or not.
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None for me today. Must be tomorrow :/. I'm only 12 hours away. Darn it!
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I woke my husband up. The jerk. We got a couple letters!!!! He won't read them to me. Ugh! I'm not cooking for him today. Possibly tomorrow as well
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My jerk read the letters to me. Awwwww. He said he met a couple guys he talks with reynolds& miranda. He said they r stand up guys. Yay! He says there's a lot of yelling and standing. . Stinks I won't be able to read them until after work.
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ha ha ha, he is lucky he changed his mind and read them to you!!! My husband wanted to wait until he got home to read them, but when he did, he didnt even take his coat off, grabbed the letters and went straight to the couch. Have fun reading them after work, over and over and over!! :-)
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Permalink Reply by tucker2 on
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OH, I hope I get a letter today, but I seam to be a few day behind everyone else in getting mail. It took 9 days to get the form letter (from the post mark dated Dec 20)
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Haha when my husband called back he asked"why did u hang up" Duh!!
I was thinking about what you said about your sons pay being higher when he was in afghanistan. I don't know how u stay sane with that. I wrote to my SR a fill in the blank questionair like was suggested on here. He returned that filled out. That's when he mentioned reynolds and maranda. He wrote us 3 letters. 2 in one envelope. -
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Wow, what are the odds, weren't we speaking about how their personalities were similar? That made me blat when i read that. So happy my husband made a friend. Amazing. Thanks for telling me that. Made my day. The littlest bit of news is so great. I will let you all know I am not an emotional person, at all. I've never blatted so much in my life. Lol.
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lets put it this way, I didnt sleep for the whole time he was over there, and he went three separate times! ugh
I want to send my daughter a form letter for fun, did you enclose a SASE? if so, did he use it to return the letter? I had read somewhere on here that their SR wasnt allowed to use the SASE.
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