Tadpole comming home for the 4th

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Permalink Reply by John L on June 27, 2009 at 12:30pm

Good news about your boy, guess that is the bad thing about having increased numbers in the recruiemnt of these special men...they can be really picky...cause the is always another group with more to choose from. Have a great Fourth!!! Our Boy just started his path on the 26th at Great Lakes.

Permalink Reply by marcthe5 on June 27, 2009 at 1:13pm

Like YESTERDAY? Where are you from? Great Lakes was GREAT for Drew. By his own admission he was no longer a "SH...T Head" having had gone through Boot Camp.

Permalink Reply by John L on June 27, 2009 at 1:48pm

Yes, he arrived at Great lakes on the 25th and started Boot, we are from a small town in Idaho. My Boy was so excited to get his life's adventure underway. Very Focused on becoming a member of the SPECWAR Community.

Permalink Reply by marcthe5 on June 27, 2009 at 1:57pm

How old is he. What's his background? When Drew left before I had an address for him I wrote a paragraph or two each day so when we finally did get to send him a letter it was already to go!

Permalink Reply by John L on June 27, 2009 at 2:10pm

Already wrote and sent out his first letter, he had a good recruiter and she gave his div and ship along the address yesterday. My son, is 17 grew up pretty much like most kids up here. He was very good at martial arts, got gold medals at the state level when he was in grade school, then moved on to wrestling, loved camping and hiking and worked at the local Movie Theater. Midway in his junior year of high school he said he wanted to join the military, I didn’t really commit to this…wanted to see if he was serious. By the end of the school year he was adamant and looked at the Navy SWCC Program. We went up to the recruiter in Boise and met with the SPECWAR Rep, who was a retired SCPO SEAL and asked him why he had not considered the SEALs. His reply was he thought he was too short and not muscular enough for them. One thing led to another and he was dead set on SEALs and was reading, watching and talking about nothing else. I’m just happy he can get his chance to do it.
Marc G Mermel said:

How old is he. What's his background? When Drew left before I had an address for him I wrote a paragraph or two each day so when we finally did get to send him a letter it was already to go!

Permalink Reply by NavyDads Co-Admin, Calvin on June 27, 2009 at 3:39pm

My Grandson was moved to the Smurff Crew (smaller guy) and he loved it. Things seemed to be better for him. He is now about 3 months and a few days from Graduation from SQT and getting his Trident. If you have any questions about the journey he is abuot to take let me know. I will send you a friends request so we can talk in private. Be sure to remove all pictures of you son from the internet including this site and remove his name. When refering to him use something that will not let anyone know who he is. Search OPSEC and PEREC for more info. He will need to remove all info from any site he has (Facebook, U tube and Myspace) as soon as possible. He will know when and if you break the PERSC and OPSEC rules. I will tell you in private.

Permalink Reply by marcthe5 on June 27, 2009 at 5:51pm

Thanks for the good advice.

Permalink Reply by TravisM on July 20, 2009 at 10:46am

Glad to see there are others with sons in Division 841. My son has a friend in Division 840, so I'm glad to hear news from either of them. Making plans to be there for the PIR.

Travis