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personal items & 1st letter home
Hi all I am a new navy mom. My son left for bootcamp at Great Lakes Oct 1. He arrived Oct 2nd, gave me that 1 final call home that night & told me to be loooking for a box with his personal items & his 1st letter home. Well I have received neither as of today. His recruiting officers told me to check in with them last Friday & they would have his address. Well I have been to the recruiting office 3 different days at different times & the door was locked every time. Is this normal?
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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It can take a week or so to receive "the box" and can take up to 3 weeks to receive the form letter, although most receive the form letter in 2 weeks or less. Monday was a holiday and many recruiting offices were closed. If you do get the address from the recruiter, double-check the address the recruiter gives you against those at http://bootcamp.navy.mil/contact_recruit.asp. Recruiters sometimes give a generic address for the RTC and if the street address is not correct, then mail can be delayed for up to 3 weeks.
You may want to join, or at least check out, Boot Camp Mom's, PIR Reference Information, and New Members Stop Here. Once you know his PIR date and/or division number, watch in Boot Camp Mom's and/or at http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/groups-listed-by-pir-date and join the group for that once it has been created.
(Group names within this reply are clickable links.)
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Permalink Reply by angelking on
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Thank you so much. My husband is in the army & keeps telling me to stop worring, that Cyle is just fine & will send a letter when he is allowed time to write. Just didn't think that him leaving home would be this hard on me. Now I know I was wrong. I find myself thinking about him & how he is doing from the minute I wake up until I go to sleep. We are so very pround of him making it into the NUKE program. I have no doubts he will do great.
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You are very welcome. In addition to the previously mentioned groups, you may wish to join NUKE moms and/or Loved Ones in the Nuke Program! and Nuke School Charleston sometime between now and the end of BC.
"No news is good news!" in the Navy as well as the Army.
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Permalink Reply by Laurie on
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Hi Angelking - my son also left on the 1st and arrived on the second. Unfortunately our landline phone was out of order and cell coverage isn't the greatest here in the Adirondacks so we missed his call : ( However we did receive his Box on Friday the 5th. We've not received any correspondence from him. We received a phone call from his recruiter on Sunday with his mailing address finally. My son's recruiter gave us his card with all of his information cell # and email address in case we had any questions. He also told us that he would call us a few times while our son is in boot camp to see how we are doing. I'm not sure how other recruiters work.
Maybe our son's are on the same ship and division??? I'm not sure if we can say here?? Hope by this time you have heard something from your son.
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As of today I have received nothing from him not even his box of personal items. I have gone to the recruiting office 4 times now & they haven't been open. I have called his recruiter & the CN1. Neither have returned my calls. I would think since he is up at Great Lakes & we live mid state IL that his box of personal items would have been here by now. Hoping I will be able to talk to his recruiter tomorrow when I go to the office for the 5th time.
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Did your SR take a cell phone? If not, he may have decided to donate or trash his clothes rather than paying to mail them home. If he took a cell phone, then it will come back in a large square box--all I got in "the box" was my son's cell phone and a set of keys that he had accidentally left in his pocket (I found that set of keys this week; he hasn't used them since before he left for BC over 4 years ago.) There was a time when it was typical for "the box" to take an average of 10 days to arrive (up to 2 weeks as the max), but that time has been reduced to a week or less for most.
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He had his cell phone, & was wearing his brand new pair of Nikes. I can see him trashing the jeans cause the zipper was broke. He also had a backpack with another change of clothes cause he had to spend Monday night in St Louis, the was bussed to GL Tuesday. When he called me last Tuesday night to let me know he had arrived at GL he said to be looking for "the box" to arrive. Maybe when I go to town tomorrow morning the recruiting office will be open & I can talk to his recruiter or the CN1. I want to get a phone card off to him so when he has it when he is able to call home.
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I hope you get something soon. Be sure to check your "My Page" for messages.
To get calling cards (actually a phone number and PIN), go to http://callsforrecruits.org/ to find out more. You email Ronny and Anna at CallsforRecruits@gmail.com and ask for the calling cards. They will email you around 12, but will send more if you need them. Each PIN that is provided is a onetime use number. You can use the form to write each PIN on for your recruit. Some people print out the form and then cut out the squares and write a PIN on each and staple them together. The recruit can then tear one off to use or give away. If you are able, please make a donation at the site to help with the cost of the cards. If you send a regular calling card, be sure to activate it before you send it.
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Wow, thats very cool. I will do that, & also go ahead & send a prepaid for him to have on hand.Thank ou so much for all the great info.
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You are very welcome. Yes, the prepaid one is good for the "I'm a Sailor!" call when he could get to talk for a longer time--again, be sure to activate it before sending it.
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I went to the Calls For Recruits webpage & printed off the phone cards. I emailed them on how to get the PIN's but haven't heard anything back. Do you know how to get the PIN's?
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They will email the PINs in a reply to your email. Ronny and Anna are usually pretty fast about sending them, but maybe they were not on when you emailed.
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