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Ship 03 (USS Hopper) Divisions 315 & 316 (brother divisions)
Welcome to the discussion group for divisions 315 & 316. These two divisions will be training together from the start to BS21, their final test.
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Permalink Reply by blakes mom on
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So far, still nothing, but I'm trying to be patient. Watching this (now) tropical storm helps keep my mind off of it. Thanks for the prayers and well wishes.
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Permalink Reply by Andra**2sailorboys** on
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Has anyone else discovered how truly non-exciting your life is now that you're writing about it daily? LOL,
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Permalink Reply by ranaeaw (ship 03 div 316) on
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lol - I was thinking the same thing last night when I was writing another letter. I now print off old photos onto regular paper and put letter to the side or whereever it will fit. I'm so busy yet I feel like there isn't something to write every day that she might be even slightly interested in. :) Today I'm doing a "20 questions" type letter. The whole thing is just questions. Maybe she'll think that's funny, I don't know.
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I received a 1 minute call Wednesday night at 9:30! He was allowed to call and check on us due to the hurricane. You could hear someone in the background counting his minute down, so there wasn't much time to ask him anything, and he said he wasn't allowed to answer any questions anyway. He couldn't tell me why he wasn't able to call earlier in the week with everyone else, but at least I heard his voice. I hope to get that long call sometime soon. I would love to know how he's doing.
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Hopefully you will be able to receive a letter or two sometime soon. At least he called and you know he is okay. It's the not knowing part that is the hardest. Is he in 315 or 316? My daughter is in 316 (the boys from 315 train with the girls from 316 and vice versa in the other group - at least that is how I understood it when on the phone on Monday) and she said in a letter to my mother that was received the other day, they had been learning how to handle weapons. She was having the time of her life! lol I never pictured her doing that, yet alone having the time of her life doing so. :) So they are all together learning.
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I heard from him! He got to call me a little while ago, and we were able to talk for nearly 30 minutes. He's in div 316. He said he's made some friends there, but he's still very lonely. That breaks my heart, but we both understand that it's half over now, and soon enough, he'll be in Pensacola. I'll be able to see him a lot more then. We're only 4 hours from there. He also said that they may get to call again next week noce Hell Week is over. Can't wait to talk to him again. He likes the weapons training too. That's probably a big favorite for most of the SR's.
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Permalink Reply by mommadash on
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My husband missed her call on Friday. He showed me the number and I said that is Great Lakes. He said NO WAY. I checked it, and it was. He was devastated. Said he was only out of service for like 20 seconds.
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I'm so afraid of missing calls, that I carry my cell phone everywhere with me (and I do mean everywhere!) and when I'm home, I carry both the house phone and my cell phone around. My husband and youngest son are both notorious for not answering the house phone, so I've warned them both not to dare miss a call from the area code 847! lol
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I think another area code is 815 too. At least when I ran a reverse look up, it came up Great Lakes area.
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My SR's birthday is this week. It sucks that we won't even be able to talk to him and tell him "Happy birthday", but at least I was able to send him birthday card. 22 more days til PIR!!! He and I have both heard that it's not a good thing if the RDC finds out it's someone's birthday, is there any truth to that?
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Permalink Reply by shannon-ship-03-div-315 on
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My sons birthday is this week also...How-ever I just wrote him a letter and told him how proud we are of him and happy birthday with some notes from others from facebook. Happy Birthday to your SR
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