An Open Letter To The RDCs of Recruit Training Command
I wanted to post this for a few reasons:
1. Even if it has been posted before, I am sure it cannot be done often enough.
2. I am sure there are other moms (and dads) from this last Friday's PIR and past/recent PIRs that would like to chime in and add to.
3. To help ease the minds of the new boot camp moms and bootcamp moms "to be".
I want to thank you. I wanted to voice my appreciation at what you have done for and with my son.
I sent an 18 year old child to you who wouldn't wear a coat in a snowstorm and got back a young man who not only wore his coat, he buttoned it up! WIthout being asked!!!! Or told!!!!
I sent you a teenager who had no real direction, drive, motivation or organization or even a future and recieved a young man who now has a direction, a goal in life, and a FUTURE.
I sent you a kid who probably couldn't get more in this tiny town then a part time job at McDonald's in this economy IF that and you returned to me a young man with a CAREER and a path to a real honest and noble life for himself.
I sent you a kid that thought iron was something in Flintstones vitamins and now have a great young man who knows you can ALSO use one to take wrinkles out of clothes!
I sent you an immature boy who had a fifth grade sense of humor and no sense of self and got back a very funny and poised young man with good posture and a strong but gentle bearing.
But, I think most of all....I sent you a young one who had been isolated in a sense and thought that our life, our values, and our morals were all some bizarre anomoly to our family that had nothing to do with "real life" and you took him in and showed him that life is not about what you see on television or hear in the tabloids or from ignorant kids at school with worthless absent parents. You took what we tried to teach him and showed him that it was indeed the gold standard. He is now proud to be himself and that was something I was afraid I would never see. I saw it this weekend.
Thank You ALL so much for putting the finishing touches on the child I sent you. Thank you for helping him take that last step over the threshold for becoming a man. He purchased his graduation photos and now his three RDCs as part of the graduation photo hold a place on our family wall for the role they played in his life. I am not sure I can thank you all enough but I hope this is a good start. I invite ALL the moms and dads to submit their thanks here to them. In a world of selfish and self absorbed people who are all too concerned with the material and the celebrity....we need to appreciate the true role models and mentors and heros.
Thank you, RDCs.
1. Even if it has been posted before, I am sure it cannot be done often enough.
2. I am sure there are other moms (and dads) from this last Friday's PIR and past/recent PIRs that would like to chime in and add to.
3. To help ease the minds of the new boot camp moms and bootcamp moms "to be".
I want to thank you. I wanted to voice my appreciation at what you have done for and with my son.
I sent an 18 year old child to you who wouldn't wear a coat in a snowstorm and got back a young man who not only wore his coat, he buttoned it up! WIthout being asked!!!! Or told!!!!
I sent you a teenager who had no real direction, drive, motivation or organization or even a future and recieved a young man who now has a direction, a goal in life, and a FUTURE.
I sent you a kid who probably couldn't get more in this tiny town then a part time job at McDonald's in this economy IF that and you returned to me a young man with a CAREER and a path to a real honest and noble life for himself.
I sent you a kid that thought iron was something in Flintstones vitamins and now have a great young man who knows you can ALSO use one to take wrinkles out of clothes!
I sent you an immature boy who had a fifth grade sense of humor and no sense of self and got back a very funny and poised young man with good posture and a strong but gentle bearing.
But, I think most of all....I sent you a young one who had been isolated in a sense and thought that our life, our values, and our morals were all some bizarre anomoly to our family that had nothing to do with "real life" and you took him in and showed him that life is not about what you see on television or hear in the tabloids or from ignorant kids at school with worthless absent parents. You took what we tried to teach him and showed him that it was indeed the gold standard. He is now proud to be himself and that was something I was afraid I would never see. I saw it this weekend.
Thank You ALL so much for putting the finishing touches on the child I sent you. Thank you for helping him take that last step over the threshold for becoming a man. He purchased his graduation photos and now his three RDCs as part of the graduation photo hold a place on our family wall for the role they played in his life. I am not sure I can thank you all enough but I hope this is a good start. I invite ALL the moms and dads to submit their thanks here to them. In a world of selfish and self absorbed people who are all too concerned with the material and the celebrity....we need to appreciate the true role models and mentors and heros.
Thank you, RDCs.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Hoppi aka Angie on -
Correct they are 100% volunteer for that duty!
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Permalink Reply by Martha(bensmom) on -
For all the hard work you do and the sacrifices you make to train our young men and women,we thank-you!!
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Permalink Reply by Nicole on -
That was great K, you were describing my son word for word.
I too would like to thank the RDCs who have taken all that I did for my son in the 18 years of his life a step further and made him a man. Thank you so very much from a mom who is forever in your debt.
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Permalink Reply by carols_kitchen on -
Amen!
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Permalink Reply by Becky on -
I want to thank them for helping shape my daughter in to a wonderful, strong ,selfconfident , HAPPY, young lady and a United States Sailor.
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Permalink Reply by Ann (Sean's Mom) on -
Beautifully written
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Permalink Reply by NavyMom(Robin) on -
Add my thanks to that list...and a question....what did you say that I didn't? I would love to know the secret!
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