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Comment by Cody Baird on September 23, 2013 at 12:06pm

Will the mail sent to their old division be sent to their new one

Comment by Marvin on September 23, 2013 at 11:42am

Cody, they will get to make calls.

Comment by brandon maynard on September 23, 2013 at 11:06am

sent about 12 pictures. I need to read before I send. sorry

Comment by brandon maynard on September 23, 2013 at 11:05am

thanks Jason. im on letter #54.. set abut 12 picks printed on back of some on song #7 on back of some. but then it hit me.... what if I cant do that lol.. thanks again for all the help :)

Comment by Cody Baird on September 23, 2013 at 11:03am

Hey guys, I got a few questions. Are the SRs in div 2342 (rcu) allowed to make phone calls or do they not get that privilege? Also, once they get there, will the mail that was previously addressed to her old div before I got the call be given to her or will they mark it return to sender?

Comment by Jason Wagner on September 23, 2013 at 10:35am

Hey Brandon - my wife wrote our daughter each day starting with the day she left, and wrote and sent the last one on Saturday morning as she graduates this Friday. I wrote her about every other day, and her brother wrote her about once a week. And then she was also getting letters from grandparents and other friends as well. If having others write your son, be sure to give them the guidelines such as no care packages, no colored or "good smelling" envelopes or paper. There is GREAT info on navyformoms.com about letter writing tips. The admins on there would be able to direct you to the correct page. Also, just a thought, I wrote a generic letter about once a week, just one of encouragement and praise and thanks, and would include it in my letter to my daughter with instructions to give it to a recruit who was not receiving any mail. If you use lower quality paper that is thinner, you can usually mail it out with more pages. My daughter is a music hound so i would print 3 or 4 songs on a page (small font and in columns), then print a bunch of small pics on the backside of that same page, then mail it off with my letter. Get creative. With the lower quality paper, I was able to get 4 sheets of paper into an envelope and never had one come back. Keep in mind, all of my letters were handwritten on college ruled lined paper, so the only "thick" paper i sent was the computer paper I printed lyrics and photos on. If I sent thicker paper, I tried to keep the letter to a total of 3 sheets. 

Thinking back to the first call we got from her, about 3 weeks into it, she told us she got 17 letters the first night they got mail! She said she got some IT for it, but didn't care in the least because 17 letters was worth it! 

I also wrote down baseball standings and when football started back up, gave her some NFL scores too. Some RDC's don't like them getting that info, so be careful, try to disguise it within the letter by "writing out" scores, like, "twenty-seven to thirteen" instead of "27-13". She loved photos of anything we were currently doing, even if it was her brother mowing the yard or the cat sleeping on the chair.

Hope that helps some...

Comment by brandon maynard on September 23, 2013 at 8:17am

thanks marvin.. ive got a lot of nice Indiana whitetail deer pics to send him and a lot more pics of stuff he loves..

Comment by Marvin on September 23, 2013 at 8:13am

One idea to let your SR know, They get mail daily to read, but only have a few minutes to write back. My son would write one, or two letters. He would write paragraphs to different people in a letter and mail it to me. Imade copies and got them to the people he aaddressed. Saved him precious time to study. But send plenty, it's all they have. If you send a lot, send them a big envelope self addressed, and stamped so the can send letters back they want to keep. They don't have much room to keep things.

Comment by brandon maynard on September 23, 2013 at 8:11am

thanks chris! thanks marvin! he is going to be happy happy happy!!!

Comment by Chris H. on September 23, 2013 at 8:02am

Our Sailor's Mom and I sent Word letters, maybe just a paragraph or two a day dated separately in the same "letter" and we could also print front and back.  We included pictures printed within the letters, like of the cats or the snow, etc., and never had a problem because there were like three or four days of writing on only a sheet or two of paper.

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