Has anyone in this group got a call home?

[J from O]

Has anyone got a call other than the first I am here call? We have received three letters but no call. Just wondering if anyone else has heard from their recruit. Hang in there everyone 11/14 will be here soon. (I hope.)

[Serena]

Hi, Yes - I received the first call that night, then I missed one two weeks later, & then got an hour long one the third week. My son said they gain and lose phone privileges depending on the actions of the division. My son left on 9/16.

[Marie]

We got a call yesterday - on her 3rd week in bootcamp @ exaclty 3pm and we talked for 23 minutes. That's alot of threes! Our recruit was chatty and upbeat, we could barely get a word in edge wise and that was fine. It was very lucky that her dad was home when she called so we all got to talk on speaker phone. Our recruit talked for a solid 18 minutes of the 23. She talked about the getting the shots - she also talked about that in her letter. We heard about her urgent dental surgery (2 molors, 2 wisdom pulled) last week and how she got dry socket as a result, but that she was finally feeling better. Our recruit said the food was good, like what you'd get in a restaraunt, but that she misses seasonings. She said for the Navy's birthday the chiefs were handing out snickers ice cream bars and apple pie and she and her division thought it was a trap so they didn't eat any, but that it was haaaaard. (She loves snickers ice cream bars.) I was really happy to hear that our recruit was told they would be getting "a call a week" from now on, but I know not to count on that. 29 more days - that's less than a month!

[Martha and Alan (J's parents)]

YES!!!!!!!!!!! I got a 20 min phone call today at 5pm. He sounded great and is doing ok. Grad pack in the mail and is receiving mail now. Sounded good but so much older. Sad he missed his dad but I am so relieved he got to call First call since the 14 second 1st call. Seemed ok. Wishing for a snickers.....Now I am soooo ready for 11-14.

[Lisa--Proud Mom of Andrew]

My son is on Ship 13, Division 434. He left Sept 17th (Wed) & I got a call the following Sat morning. He called both my husband and I last Wed. Sounded very upbeat & said they got calls because they did well on a "test about Navy stuff". Anyone from the Dallas area? I'm in Mesquite.

[Serena]

Hi Lisa - our son Robert is on Ship 13, div. 434 also. I've only found 1 other mother with a son in this division. Have you received any calls lately from your son? We've haven't had any calls since the 8th, and only a very short letter. We live in central Florida, but have a lot of relatives in Tyler.

[ReneeB]

Hey! Yes, finally got first phone call last night!! The universe came to a screaching halt!! My son is Div. 440 Ship 9. Says they are a great team. He was very positive and like most of you..couldn't get a word in edge wise. I am grateful for that! He said the first 2 weeks were killers, but they are getting in the "groove". He is VERY excited for Graduation. Said all the info should have gone out today. He says the food is really good..(I'm not quite sure what that says about my cooking) and he has gained 7 lbs.! He is sleeping great and headed for the Ironing Olympics! LOL.
I took my first deep breath in 3 weeks! He also said that phone calls were earned priveledge for good test scores, inspections, behavior, etc...Said to expect another call on Sunday. Woo Hoo!
Love to hear from anybody in Div.440!! Graduation Pre-Celebration???
Renee

[Alyse]

Hi Renee, my son is in the same div and ship. Three of us have a group just for them Look up the group
Ship 9 USS John F Kennedy Div 440 I'm glad for your info. My son has written but the one phone call he did get, was to his girlfriend but she filled me in on the info. I can't wait to see him at PIR

[Marie]

Well, I got another call home and this time it wasn't so happy. She said that after her phone call on Tuesday their DIV got in some kinda trouble and had to do some IT and that IT really "is the worst thing ever". My recruit was standing watch last night and had another recruit get out of bed and when Tory told her to get back in bed the other recruit just started yelling at my recruit and wouldn't comply. Tory had no alternative but to go to the Officer On Deck for help. This morning the RCDs are really mad at the division and they have been promised IT tonight. My recruit is afraid that since the RCDs are soo soo mad that they will be given an extra helping of IT and asked us to think about her/them tonight. She was reassured that she did the right thing, but it wasn't an easy thing for the RCDs to decide - apparently the other recruit lied and said that my recruit wasn't doing her job (watch) properly and that's why she was out of bed. Thankfully the OOD cooraberated what our recruit said and that is, we believe, why she was able to call home. When we questioned how she was able to make a phone call and she said even her RCDs didn't know - she was volunteered to do a job and the person in charge of her sat her in a chair and said "you've got five minutes. call whoever you want."

As if it wasn't bad enough that they are going to get IT tonight - they had their racks searched and a female recruit was caught with a letter to a male recruit just across the hall. That is fraternization and the Navy doesn't look to kindly on that, apparently. Because of this my recruit is positive that they are going to get extra extra IT tonight.

So, I while I was glad to get another phone call I surely wasn't thrilled to hear the news that came with it.

[Martha and Alan (J's parents)]

We got phone call last night, grad pac today and 2 letters today. What a week!

[K]

I got a call not last Friday but the Friday before. He got about 20 minutes and we had a good chat.

[Donna]

Hi Martha my son is also on ship 10 div 838, I got my one and only call last wed night, and 4 letters

[stacey]

iv gotten quite a few calls