Christmas at Bootcamp

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Permalink Reply by Paula on December 7, 2008 at 11:57pm

Nope unfortunately not. Just celebrate all the holidays missed when he comes home! iT IS GOING TO BE MORE DIFFICULT ON YOU THAN HIM.

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Permalink Reply by Nicole on December 8, 2008 at 5:14pm

If your Christmas tree is up then maybe put a picture of the family around the tree in the card, other than that nothing can be sent except for your encouragement and love.

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Permalink Reply by Holly Edmunds on December 9, 2008 at 12:14pm

Are we actually allowed to send Christmas cards? I'd heard we weren't supposed to send cards? We are taking a "mini" artificial tree to PIR along with gifts for him to open. We will probably have to take them home and ship them back to him at A-School but at least we can have a belated celebration!

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Permalink Reply by nia on December 11, 2008 at 12:18am

my son is in 059. he wrote no POSTcards, no pics, letters only. I dont know if that means we cant send christmas cards or not. I called his recruiter and asked him. He did not seem to be sure about this either. Said first yes, then no

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Permalink Reply by Sheila A on December 9, 2008 at 12:21pm

Holly: That is a neat idea to bring a mini tree and gifts. Does anyone know if we can send cards? my family is asking me and I have no clue.

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Permalink Reply by Nicole on December 9, 2008 at 12:24pm

Yes, you can send cards, but don't send the musical ones, have read all over this site that it could mean extra PT for the recruits who receive them.

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Permalink Reply by Holly Edmunds on December 9, 2008 at 12:28pm

Oh good! The cards will help at least! Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Janis Kay on December 9, 2008 at 8:20pm

Yes, the chief probably does look at them but that doesn't mean that you can't send them. I wouldn't send a whole lot but a here and there would be fine.

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Permalink Reply by nia on December 11, 2008 at 12:20am

my son wrote, no pics.
so, I dont know.

Does anyone know if they open the letters before our kids get them?

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Permalink Reply by Julie on December 13, 2008 at 9:49pm

Yes. They look at the pics and can share them with the entire division.

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Permalink Reply by Paula {Laurens Mom} on December 13, 2008 at 11:53pm

My kid said once a week the RDC checks their photos to make sure nothing "bad" is sent. She hasnt had her pics "shared" with the entire division. Her RDC saw pics of our yellow lab I sent and he told her he just got a yellow lab puppy and asked her if she wanted to see the pics of his dog. He went and got the pics and showed her. I think what we need to remember here is that each division is different and have different rules. What may fly with one RDC isnt going to with another.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy (aka nwig) on December 14, 2008 at 11:45am

Paula - that is a VERY excellent point. Each RDC is different, and each has different things that they do and don't allow. And for the 3 years that I've been watching stories about boot camp, there are more RDCs that allow cards and pictures than those who give the recruits grief about them.

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