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Thanks! I guess I do have a question. My daughter is 25 years old and has trained with a personal trainer who was ex-military for about 14 months prior to Sunday's indoc. However, shortly into her training regimen began, she injured her knee. After about 3 months, she finally went to see an orthopedic surgeon, who did an MRI, and said that there was no permanent damage but it was badly bruised. So, she had to spend about 6 to 7 months resting her knee and then doing rehab therapy. She was not allowed to even run on treadmills, so her trainer focused on building up her upper body strength.

Well, her knee now is in great shape and she can do 45 good, military pushups under 2 minutes and 60+ curls (something like situps but a bit different) under 2 minutes, and when she did the 1 1/2 mile PT run she finished one minute under the cut off time for ladies ( 13:54 sec). But she's not really in the type of running shape that I imagine she really should be. I'm just curious how much they run them on a daily basis - 2 miles, 5 miles, 10 miles? I think this is the one area that I worry about the most. Does anyone have any feel on how much they focus on running during these rigorous workouts?

Also, this is a general question to anyone - I'm not sure if I'm only responding to you EG but I'd like feedback from any of the Navy Dads too, so if I'm posting this incorrectly, could you make it available for others to see too? thanks!

Hello - appreciate the comments you all have written. My daughter is an OC and just started a few days ago and is in Newport, RI right now. She's been training for over a year for this event so my wife and I are really hoping that she can stick it out and become an officer. While I was not able to be in the service (heart murmor) my father was retired Air Force and served in WWII in the China/Burma/India theatre under General Chenault. He's deceased now, but I sure know that he'd be proud of what our daughter Maria is doing right now with the Navy. My wife has been following Navy for Moms for several weeks now and has really gotten so helpful information. So glad that there's a Navy for Dads site too. Thank you all for any insights you have...take care....