NAVY BOOT CAMP

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Comment by John Frank on December 15, 2009 at 1:09pm

Mitch- I'll be sure to let you know. we chose it because it has 2 bedroom suites and Dan's brother and sister are coming too. Plus it has a room with a sofa to hang out with our sailor.

Comment by Steven S on December 15, 2009 at 1:04pm

Anyone else Ship4 Div76 PIR 2/5/10?

Comment by Bill S on December 15, 2009 at 12:41pm

Hey Mitch, NEVER mess with a Momma bear and her cub!!! LOL good one.

Comment by Mitch Madruga on December 15, 2009 at 12:37pm

My son's PIR is 01/15/10 and we are staying at the Residence Inn as well. John, let me know how your stay was. I've been looking around on-line and Residence Inn seems to get great reviews.

On another note, my wife finally got her first letter from our son. I almost missed the letter in the mailbox and if I hadn't stuck my hand way in the back we probably would have missed it. So I decided to mess with her a bit and did some out loud thinking about how many times we could have missed it if it was stuck way in the back. She wasn't ammused. lol

Comment by David on December 15, 2009 at 10:52am

We will be staying at the Courtyard in Waukegan and our PIR is also 01/08/10.

Comment by John Frank on December 15, 2009 at 9:34am

When is your PIR? My son graduates 1/8/10 and we're staying at the Residence Inn.

Comment by MarkM on December 15, 2009 at 9:04am

Bob, we posted our son's address on his Facebook page.

I am with ya. I would like to see a POD posted online somewhere each day so we know what they are doing that day.

Comment by Bob Kline on December 14, 2009 at 8:53pm

Our form letter showed up over the weekend. I had to laugh as my daughter's primary concern was that we make sure her friends get her address at Boot Camp. We got about eight words. Hi family, I'm OK, will write soon.

She would have started Day 1-1 today too, I think. I think the hardest part of all of this is not knowing exactly what is happening day by day. I'm the kind of guy who wants them to post the POD on line somewhere so I can look at it and analyze it. But that's just me.

Comment by MarkM on December 14, 2009 at 3:19pm

We got a call today! It has been 2 weeks today since he left home. Today's call was a "free" call because he had to get information for his security clearance processing. He got to call his girlfriend, his mom and I.

He said he is having fun so far. The chow is pretty good, most of the time. The division is coming together as a team very quickly. Twice they have all stepped forward for punishment in order to lessen the punishment of a single recruit. That is a huge step, if you've been to bootcamp, you understand. The more things like that that they do, the more calls home they get!

Today is officially Day 1-1 for them. They finished P-days last Wednesday, but 900 divisions can only start on Mondays for some reason. The grad date is still 2/5.

Comment by Terry Beals on December 13, 2009 at 5:53pm

Man, isn't that the truth! PIR couldn't come quickly enough and even though my son was a Grad-and-Go we are so much more at ease knowing that he can call or webcam with us almost every night and weekend. That will probably tail off a bit once he starts his A-school in Jan.

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