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Ship 12 Division 049, PIR 1/27/12
Please join this discussion and let us know what you find out about our PR's while they are at boot camp. It would be nice to know who else will be graduating in this division.
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Permalink Reply by ProudOfGar on
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Seawitch what will he be doing?
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Permalink Reply by seawitch on
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He's going in as a PACT Seaman. So training for that I think. He will stay in GL for 4 additional weeks for that training, then he'll go somewhere else, but he doesn't know where just yet.
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Yea I don't know a whole lot either although in his last letter he asked if I would do a little research for him.
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Permalink Reply by Tonya on
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My SR will be headed to Dam Neck, Virginia for A school for 13 weeks to study to be an IS (intellegence specialist). He will remain in Virginia for an additional 5 to 13 weeks for C school. Then finally we will be able to live together again! Probably sometime next summer. But I am so ready for him to have access to phones and internet so that we can communicate regularly. I am pretty blue today because I miss him so much :( Only 2.5 weeks to go! These are some of the longest weeks of my life.
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Permalink Reply by Mrs. David's mom on
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Tonya, I really feel for you! As if the last trimester of pregnancy isn't a long enough wait, you also have to wait for daddy! I don't know what I would have done without my husband during that time.
My son is going to Meridian Mississippi. He will be an AZ, (Aviation Maintence Administration). He said his A school is 8 weeks, then he will get 14 days leave.
Has everyone gotten calls? I haven't heard from him since the "I arrived" call. He keeps saying in his letters that "Maybe next week I'll get to call..." but still nothting. It hurts!
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My son keeps saying maybe soon too and for him to keep saying that I know he is wanting/neeing it bad. His last few letters he hasn't been as upbeat as he had been. Plus he says he is able t to write more now but I think I am getting fewer letters! So all these things combine plus my own selfish wanting to just hear his voice does hurt!
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David's letters have been up/down. One letter he's all GungHo, next, down in the dumps. He is anxious to get to A school! So, that's a good thing. He had requested we send him his friends address that he'd forgotten to take with him. We sent it, and now WE get fewer letters. hmmm, why did we do that? I am a little afraid to take him his cell phone. After PIR I want to spend time with him, and not just sitting there watching him reply to text messages! lol
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I have gotten more phone calls than anyone it seems, but it's still not enough. I think that I would only be satisfied if I got a call every day, but at least once a week would help a lot more. I haven't talked to him since the Wednesday before Christmas. I hope that he gets one more call before the "I"m a sailor call".
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So......one of my worst nightmares in this whole process came true today. I was upstairs in my house today feeding my children lunch, after we finished I took them downstairs to give the dogs a bath when I saw my phone sitting on a counter downstairs. My heart sank imediately thinking that I may have missed a call.........and there it was. The 847 area code. I hit the floor in a heap of tears! I pulled the number up on my phone and staired at it for a moment, then like a baby called the number back thinking it would just be a payphone that would ring and ring. It wasn't! There was an answering machine on the other line. Apparently someone needed information about him. I pulled it together long enough to leave a brief message, and then lost it again. This is one of the very few times in my life that I have truely been heart-broken.
Praise God for second chances though! He called tonight at about 9:10 and I got to talk to him for 10 minutes. Those minutes were so precious. Hearing his voice was so amazing. I am so in love with my hubby! This is more intense than when we were dating :) He was able to tell me that many recruits go to the nearby mall after graduation to hang out or they drive into Chicago. He said that how much time they will have after graduation depends on how well they do next week on their Battlestations exam. I hope that they pass the first time with flying colors! He also said that they did firefighting training today and tear gas, which really hurts. They ran about 4 miles as part of their PT today. He was able to order pictures, the yearbook, and the graduation DVD already. He has only lost 3 lbs since he has been there, but I'll bet that his BMI has changed :) He's going to look so great!
He said that after Battlestations they will all be able to make calls. You will hear from your SR's very soon ladies. Hang in there.
Only 2 weeks from Friday ladies..........only 2 more weeks! We can do it.
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They say, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder". And that is very true! Marriage is full of up's and down's, and sometimes we don't feel like we are 'in love' with our husbands. If we could only bottle up some of these 'warm and fuzzy' feelings to open up and use during some down time later on.
Bottle up some of those lonely feeling too, so that some day years from now, if he happens to leave the 'seat' up. Reach down inside and remember how tough it is without him, and that toilet bowl won't feel so cold.
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I know!!!! It's so awful:((( I've done nothing but cry. I will be praying for the family.
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My sons letters have really been down in the dumps lately I had thought that the norm was for them to be down in the begining and up in the end but it seems to be the backwards for us anyway.
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