Proud Wife of a Navy Sailor to be on May 3, Div 176 ship 14

[Mia the US Navy wife]

How are you all doing? Are you all very anxious as i am? I hope to meet you all on May 2 at the Meet and Greet at Sarge's. I will be staying with my brother in the Navy Lodge. I hope you all are preparing and excited. Let's keep praying for our loved ones!!! They definitely need it!!! Let's hope that everyone is healthy and strong!!!! Let's pray for everyone who arrived on Mar 11, 2013 completes successfully and healthy physically as well as with the sound mindset!!! We all love our SRs' and wish them well!!! We also need to keep the positive attitude and stay strong for our SRs'!!! Now we all are in it together, so let's support and encourage each other!!! All for one and one for all!!!! Love to all and be well!!! God Bless You all!!! I am the proudest wife of my SR to hopefully to become with God's and all of our prayers!!! I honor, respect and I admire him for undertaking such a challenging endeavor to fight for our country, its citizens and everything this best country in the entire World, the United States of America stands for!!!

Love to All and hoping to meet you there on May 2 at the Sarge's Meet and Greet and May 3, at the PIR!!!!
Marika, (SR in Div 176 ship 14, USS Arizona).

[Proud Navy Mom of SR J-Rob]

My son is also graduating boot camp on ship 14 div 176....what is this Sarge's meet and greet on May 2?  where is it...and who all is invited?  I will be attending the graduation with my mother and my son's girlfriend...flying in by the afternoon of May 2nd...I have yet to book anywhere to stay yet...any suggestions?  my mom has credits at the marriot but i don't know the closest one's location to the base.  Any help will definitely be appreciated!

[Mia the US Navy wife]

The Navy Lodge, with the name of your SR, will give you a discount, but you must mention that you are coming to attend your SR Graduation Ceremony. Go to www.navy-lodge.com, I booked it there and it is not far from the Sarge's Greet and Meet as well as from the GL, IL base.  The information for the Sarge's Meet and Greet is as follows: 

The Navy constantly changes their requirements for graduation access and rules. I no longer send the PDF entitled "Family Guide". In order to keep families up-to-date I have inserted the official link to the Navy Website for current information at the bottom of this email. Please click on OFFICIAL NAVY GRADUATION link.  It includes very important information you should read prior to attending graduation.

 

My Wife and I look forward to meeting you Thursday night before the P.I.R. Attached is information to make your trip more relaxing. My wife and I have been hosting the meet and greet for the last 2 years. We are not a commercial venue and do not own the Sundance Saloon. We rely solely on contributions from the families who attend our meet and greet to help us defray the cost of the food. We appreciate any donations you can render at the meet and greet. There is a donation box at the front of the buffet table. 

 

Our meals consist of bread sticks from Olive Garden, pasta/sausage/meatballs- from Jeanette’s Italian Kitchen, delicious fried chicken from Popeye’s, and deserts from local food chains. My wife hand bakes the world’s most delicious brownies.  Your donation will help us fund future meet and greets for the Navy Families.   I thank you in advance for your contribution.

 

If you need taxi service from the airport, below are my rates: Please call me at  847-212-0246  or email me your flight information including date of arrival, number of passengers, Airline, flight number, and cell phone number(s), and hotel you are staying at.

 

SPECIAL Rates are as follows: PER CAB

1. Round trip to and from O’Hare, Including a free ride to PIR. $99.00
2. Round trip to and from Midway, including a free ride to PIR $159.00
3. Round trip to and from Milwaukee, including a free ride to PIR $169.00

 

RETURN TO YOUR HOTEL AFTER PIR (10:30AM - 12:00 Noon) is $3.00 Per person from the following Lake County hotels only (Navy Lodge, Sleep Inn Lake Bluff, Days Inn-North Chicago, Red Carpet Inn North Chicago, Marriott Hotels - Waukegan ONLY, Candle Wood Suites Waukegan, Holiday Inn Express Waukegan, Quality Inn Waukegan, Red roof Inn Waukegan, Great Lakes Motel North Chicago, Ramada Inn Waukegan, Super 8 Waukegan, America's Best Waukegan, Motel-6 Waukegan) minimum cost per cab is $9.00. All other hotels not listed above are “meter runs” Example (APPROXIMATE) – Gurnee -$20.00, Lincolnshire $29.00, Lake Forest/Mettaw $24.00 plus tolls. 

 

Other AIRPORT Rates if no round trip is paid at time of arrival to your hotel. PER CAB

 

1. One way from O’Hare $54.00 (to Lake County Hotels)
2. Return to O’Hare $48.00 (from Lake County hotels)
3. One way from Midway $90.00 to Lake County Non rush hour -Before 2PM and after 7PM
4. Return to Midway (from Lake County) $85.00 - Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
5. One way from Milwaukee (to Lake County Hotels) $90.00
6. Return to Milwaukee (Lake County Hotels) $85.00

 

Shuttle to and from your hotel (6:30AM to 12:00 Noon) is $3.00 Per person from the following Lake County hotels only (Navy Lodge, Sleep Inn Lake Bluff, Days Inn-North Chicago, Red Carpet Inn North Chicago, Marriott Hotels - Waukegan ONLY, Candle Wood Suites Waukegan, Holiday Inn Express Waukegan, Quality Inn Waukegan, Red roof Inn Waukegan, Great Lakes Motel North Chicago, Ramada Inn Waukegan, Super 8 Waukegan, America's Best Waukegan, Motel-6 Waukegan) minimum cost per cab is $9.00. All other hotels not listed above are “meter runs” Example (APPROXIMATE) – Gurnee -$20.00, Lincolnshire $29.00, Lake Forest/Mettaw $24.00 plus tolls.

 

Click here http://www.bootcamp.navy.mil/families.asp

for the most updated information and you will be re-directed to the Navy's Official Website for graduation information. Click on the family guide.

 

Regards,

John Spadaro

U.S. Army Retired (20 Years of Honorable service to our great United States)

 847-212-0246 

FACEBOOK: Sarge John L. Spadaro (Feel free to add me as a friend)

God Bless The U.S.A.

 

Destiny is not a matter of chance, 
it is a matter of choice; 
it is not a thing to be waited for, 
it is a thing to be achieved."
- Winston Churchill

Should you have any more questions do not hesitate to ask and i hope i see you there!!!!!  Marika, wife of SR in Div 176 Ship 14 (USS Arizona), PIR on May 3rd.

Do you know where you SR is going to A school?  When did you hear from your SR last time, either a phone call or letter?  I have not heard anything in a very long time and i hate it!!!!  In Solidarity, m.

[Proud Navy Mom of SR J-Rob]

Thanks so much for the info.....I heard from my sailor the first time on the helicopter ride at 4 am from his cell phone...then they took it and mailed back to me...I knew that to be expected...then I heard from him on a saturday afternoon....the following weekend when I wasn't expecting it...then again on Saturday morning before Easter...I missed the call but he called my husband...he was horse the first weekend and sounded exhausted..telling me they had put him second in command of his division...and he was having to yell alot....this coming from a boy who has played football Defense and offense his whole life...and despite the fact that he threw up almost everytime he ran for a good long time...was in the best shape of his life...

I wouldn't be discouraged...it says that there are alot of reasons for your boys not calling...did he have a calling card?  and was it already activated?  if your sailor is extremely tired I was told by my son it was a long line..to wait to use the phone..and a big effort to do so....I haven't heard from my son since the Saturday before Easter.  It caused concern but now since reading the forums and the info on line about phone calls....it isn't unusual..... I didn't send a calling card with my son...i sent a credit card...not sure if that made a difference for him or not...he could be out of minutes I don't know...I haven't got a letter either...Ive sent 3...his girlfriend got one letter and 3 calls but she missed 2 out of the 3...she missed the last one over 2 weeks ago..and neither of us have heard from him since....

He told me the second call I got that his A school was in San Antonio Tx....supposedly, I think that is where all medical corpsman go to A school and it last from what Ive been told 14 weeks...then they are allowed to go home for 10 days...at least that is what happened to his best friend who graduated aprill 22...and went to a school in Great Lakes to be a seaman...

anyway take care and chin up....im sure everything is great with your man!  as is with my son! 

[Mia the US Navy wife]

Thank you Dear Proud Navy Mom of SR J-Rob, It seems as we are in the same boat.  However, maybe it is different for a mom and a wife?  I do not know, I had never been mom.  As you told me your SR sent one letter to his girlfriend and none to you.  At some point the are differences in Love categories.  Of course you love your mother, father, siblings they are usually your rock and blood love.  As far as girlfriend, wife the love is different, you would want to think that they are your true love, friendship and someone who always understands without judgement, because of love.  I love my husband very much and i know during hardships he would be the only person i would run to.  Family do not always understand.  Your wife, lover, girlfriend love is unconditional, just because the person exsists.  I have hard time understanding, why my SR is choosing silence over comfort???   Anyway, i hope that my information helped and you and your family will attend Sarge's Meet and Greet and maybe even you will be staying in the Navy Lodge.  I hope for us to meet before the PIR.  My SR is also a Corpsman, going to San Antonio, Hospital Medic A school for 14 weeks.  I would like to move there already to be closer to my SR.  I understand their C school will be for one year.  My SR would like to become a Surgical Technonlogist, which is one year.  I hope if not for A school, I will be able to join him for a C school, also in San Antonio, TX.  Maybe the Navy will pay for our aboard?  I am very grateful for your replies and contact and I am really looking forward to meeting you, your family and your SR.  Let's make a deal, as soon as you hear from your son pls. let me know and i do the same.  Let's bond together, because it seems as we are on this journey going through the same path for at least another 14 weeks maybe longer.  I hope that your SR and my SR are friends as well!!!!  Take care and God Bless YOU and your family!!!!  Marika.