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Ship 11 (USS Kearsarge) Divisons 395 and 396 (Brother Divisions)
Welcome to the Division Discussion for Divisions 395 and 396
These two divisions are brother divisions and will be training together from the beginning through BS21 their final test. Your SRs, soon to be SAILORS, are becoming friends, and some of them may be heading to A School together.
Get to know each other, your SRs are!
Please still use the Main Wall of the PIR Group to post questions, and concerns, we “veteran” moms don’t always get to into the discussion area as often as we would like.
Every single question that is asked is important Every single concern is genuine Every single member is important to us We don't want to accidentally overlook any of them or you.
Hang in there!!!
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Ok thats good too hear I am excited. I wonder what time?? whens the last time you heard from her?
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Permalink Reply by PTBamaFan on
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Talked to my son today he sounded good, said Div 396 is doing great. He will be delayed a week before heading to A school, which means I'll have more time to spend with him next weekend.
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Thats good:) why is it delayed tho? Where is his a school training going to be?
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Thats awesome:) I talked to my fiance from div. 395. Why is it going to be delayed a week?
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He's going to Pensacola. Delayed at least a week because of the shutdown but who knows, it could change again next week. Didn't get to ask too many questions since it was only about a 3 minute call. Said he would call again Wednesday.
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Oh ok well atleast you get to see your son longer:) My phone call was ten mins today.My fiance is going to A school in great lakes. So he just has to go across the street from bootcamp
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Im glad to see that I'm not the only Navy Mom "going" crazy but these feelings are not the onset of insanity but a precursor of emotions and feelings of whats to come!!! Im glad to see that there are trully other parents that feel the way I feel. I cry sometime when my husband looks at me or mentions our daughter name, or Navy or just about anything. I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one doing things "out of the ordinary"!! My life will never be the same again!!
These are great, I took the liberty of combining and changing some of it.
If you have any additions to the list please post in this discussion topic!
1. Your last good night of sleep was six months before she/he enlisted.
2. You have finally resigned to the fact that you can't call her/him and you never know when or if the phone is going to ring.......: < ( I miss my daughter!!3. Your Navy's recruit version of pneumonia is "It's just a cold, I'm fine".
4. Your interior design color palate is red, white and blue, and you never even noticed.
5. You have at least 100 e-mails per day.
6. The mere word Deployment has you on the phone refilling your Xanax.
7. You can't quite figure out what non-Navy's mothers worry about.
8. You finally realize that Drill Instructors are not the anti-christ and more like heroes.
9. You've mailed at least every other day a letter with notes of encouragement, jokes, little stories, poems etc.
10. You forgot that there were TV stations other than CNN and Fox.
11. You find yourself bragging to your friends about your Navy's son/daughter shooting achievement.
12. You will get into a high speed chase just to catch up with someone's Navy bumper sticker.
13. You've memorized military time.
14. You finally realize that today really means tomorrow, tomorrow could be today, and next week, could be yesterday.
15. You've learned to hold your breath for a really, really long time.16. You know your mail person by their first name.
17. Your new "best" friends are all online! :)18.When you have a wide color choice of tee shirt in your closet all some place saying Navy
19.You've come to realize that you can have 12 emotions all at the same time and it somehow feels normal: pride, fear, .pride, apprehension, pride, sadness, pride, anger, pride, love, pride and patriotism.
20 you sleep with the phone in your hand.
21 you sleep in you Navy's bed.and !!
22 you sleep with your Navy's baby blanket!!!
23 you called your Navy's phone while he/she was away to hear the voicemail greeting.
24. you check the Navy Moms and Dads website BEFORE you check email.
25. your weather check page includes Great Lakes Illinois, and Chicago
26. you actually know what time it is in Illinois.
27. you forward all your calls to your cell phone so you don't miss her call
28. you leave her room just as she/he left it.
29. spend hours scrolling through the web looking at photos and telling at the rest of your family to "See on the web . . page , I think this is Nikki!"
30. You know you're a Navy's Moms ...when you walk through the grocery store wondering, "Can I send this?" "Should I . . mail that?" and get to the checkout lane and realize that you don't have no food for your home,just stuff to mail?
31. You laugh and cry with someone that you have never met.
32. You grieve with someone,who has lost a loved one.
33. You Pray for someone's son or daughter that you don't know.34. Pray Pray like you never Prayed before and your Faith is your Saving Grace. When you truly appreciate every military . man and women and the sacrifices that were made for you past and present. When you truly know what a HERO is . . (Your Navy Son or Daughter).
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Hi, my daughter Div is 396 and I am getting anxious because I see replies that their son/daughter call a few hours ago?....I wondered what is going on!...I got her letter three days ago (dated 6 Oct) and she said that on graduation day she will be in the front with the scholastic/academic flag....and the only thing in her way is Battlestation!.
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Nikki's Mom sounds like she is really doing well in BC. My son told me he had to wait to use a phone and as we were talking another div came in and he had to go. Where is your daughter going to A school?
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Hi, I am sorry that i replay this late but my husband had done a procedure on monday in the hospital thank God everything is fine so far. Mi daughter is going to San Antonio Texas, she wanted be corpsman, she is a great kid! and our family love her dearly. We all going to her graduation!!!
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