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Boot Camp Care Packages
Hi,
My son has been at boot camp 10 days. I have been reading up on this site!! You guys are full of information. I read about care packages a few days ago. I want to verify. Is it correct that no care packages should be sent to boot camp? The only care package I can send is the one I purchase off of this sight for graduation? What else do I need to know about this?
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Permalink Reply by CryptoDad on
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You pretty much nailed it: No care packages.
Info on the graduation package from Morale, Welfare & Recreation (MWR) can be found at http://www.mwrgl.com/gen_info/rtc_graduation/rtccarepkg.htm
Small items (stamps, phone cards, bandaids) can be slipped into letters.
Close to PIR, Recruits may be allowed contacts and make-up.
The safe advice is: If they don't ask for it, don't send it.
ps - When I was in 6th grade, I had a friend, Terry, whose dad was an RDC. Terry always shared contraband cookies at lunch. ;)
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Permalink Reply by garden gal on
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Were you at GL in 6th grade? Or was this at one of the other locations for BC that were open then?
Just curious because I was at GL for 3rd - 6th grade. Although I am almost certainly older than you so it probably wasn't the same time :)
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I was in the North Chicago school system from 4th grade (1959) thru high school (NCCHS class of 68). Did you do 6th at Neal?
Lots of family history with Great Lakes dating back to Grandad being head grounds keeper in the years between the World Wars.
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I went to Forrestal Elementary 3rd - 5th and Neal for 6th. Then we were transferred to Kingsville, TX.
Great Lakes was actually my favorite of the places we were stationed. Partly because my dad (among other duties) was in charge of maintaining the Navy exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. He would take me out of school and turn me loose for the day in the museum while he was working. Probably not something parents would do with a 4th grader these day but that was a different era.
When I go to my son's PIR sometime in October I hope to be able to go by my old house on Texas Ct in base housing. Google maps shows it as still being there after 50 years.
I guess I was a little after you. I was there 1962 -1966.
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