Please help........an upsetting phone call.

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Permalink Reply by Queenie (Lisa) on August 6, 2008 at 9:11pm

She is probably just homesick, and was calling with out permission and chickened out after you picked up, when my husband was in years a go he did the same thing. I'm sure she will be fine. There are prayer support groups here and we'd love to have you .
Praying for you and for Jess
Lisa Burgess

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Permalink Reply by Wendy on August 6, 2008 at 9:16pm

Thank you Lisa.
Everyone keeps telling me the same thing, it is just the not knowing that is hard. She is not use to the environment she is in and I just hope she can fight through it. She is very strong willed, but has such a soft heart. And I have never heard her cry like that before. All I have done is cry and I could not focus at work. I only hope if she snuck a call she doesn't get into trouble for it.
The prayers are much appreciated.

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Permalink Reply by Queenie (Lisa) on August 6, 2008 at 11:52pm

Wendy, what ever you do do not call great lakes and say you had a call from her, if she was sneaking a call hopefully she hung up before she got caught, you don't want to draw any extra attention to her... that was advise from my husband he was in 8 years

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Permalink Reply by Wendy on August 7, 2008 at 12:25pm

I called her recruiter here at home, but unfortunately he said he could not help. No- I do not want to call Great Lakes incase she did not have permission. I did get a letter yesterday which would not explain the call- but she had said they pulled all of her wisdom teeth.....she never had a problem with them before, is this a requirement that anyone is aware of?

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Permalink Reply by Queenie (Lisa) on August 7, 2008 at 12:39pm

That is the first thing they do wil ALL of them, stays off future problems I guess. It is done usually duringthe first week while they are doing all the processing in stuff... Our son said it wasn't bad

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Permalink Reply by One,Two,Three on August 9, 2008 at 6:53pm

Wendy My son is in BC now. Just went in this past week. As far as them pulling the wisdom teeth, My son in law is in the Marine corp. He had his pulled in boot camp so their would be no future problems with them. He had told my son to expect it when he went into boot camp thats the only reason I know this.

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Permalink Reply by Suzanne on August 6, 2008 at 10:14pm

Wendy, I'm praying for you. Its so hard when something like this happens and we can't communicate with them. I'm praying for your daughter, too. My son left for BC on 7/17. Each letter brings anticipation... and dread. I'm so afraid there will be bad news and I won't know if things got better for another week. Hang in there. We're gonna get thru this. All together.

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Permalink Reply by Brenda Sue on August 6, 2008 at 10:48pm

Hey Wendy - have you contacted another mom in Jess's division? Maybe you can find someone on here who can get some information for you! I know my son got an extra phone call during boot camp because he was just doing something right. Ask around on here!! There has to be someong close!!
Prayers!!
Brenda

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Permalink Reply by Shannon Raven's Mom on August 7, 2008 at 9:51am

Wendy, my daughter also left on July 15th. What div and ship is Jess attached to? I would be more than happy to have my daughter try to find out if she is ok if they are on the same ship. Shannon

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Permalink Reply by Wendy on August 7, 2008 at 12:22pm

Thank you Raven.....

She is on Ship 14 Div 330. Just not knowing after getting that call is driving me crazy.

Thank you so much. What Div and Ship is your daughter on?

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Permalink Reply by Barb Pruitt on August 7, 2008 at 9:59am

Hold tight, write her EVERY DAY , give her lots of encouragement, and tell her she can make it. My daughter went in and hated boot camp LOVES being in the navy. Tell her there are alot of girls that have made it. Tell her don't take anything they say and do personnally. Just play the game and get thru bootcamp. Tell her you love her, and will be there waiting to see her graduate. Good luck, she can do it.

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Permalink Reply by Wendy on August 7, 2008 at 12:29pm

I write her every day. And I tell her how very proud I am of her. I have told her she is strong and will make it through all of this. And I am here at home cheering her on every step of the way. I told her that if she ever gets to see outside in the evening that I gave her a star to look at and when she does that is me shining over her and telling her how much I love her. I heard they break them down just to build them back up. She is not use to that kind of environment, so I hope she is doing ok. Her phone call was just very upsetting.

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