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Started Aug 13

Any one with a son or daughter leaving on June 30th?

Replied Aug 8

Division 314... Ship # unknown

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Deb, in California

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I am William's Mom. He graduated high school on June 5, 2008, and will leave for Great Lakes on July 2, 2008. He is following in his Dad's footsteps, his Dad enlisted in the Navy almost 43 years to the day that William did! My daughter is staying home and starting college in the Fall.
My child's FIRST name only (No Last Names Please!):
William
My son/daughter is:
Enlisted
I was the proudest of my child when:
When he was given a later date to start boot camp, but decided he needed to start his career in the Navy NOW! He could have taken the summer off, but he did not!
When my son/daughter first spoke about joining the service I:
Was proud, Encouraged him/her
As a new Navy mom, the most important thing I learned was:
The best way to support him!

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At 12:24am on August 19, 2008, Marcy & Robert said…
DebDeb,
Thank goodness your nephew is doing better. Yes when it comes to our kids I do not hesitate to take to urgent care or ER, I rather be safe than sorry. We are leaving from Corona on Sat.8/23 ourselves. We should be in Great Lakes by Thurs. morning; it takes 30 hours to get there, but we are making a few stops on the way. We are going to see John Wayne's birth house in Iowa as well as the fighting Sullivan Bros Memorial and the movie site of Field of Dreams all in Iowa. Yes, I also hope Mitchell is feeling better and we talk with one of his fellow SeaCadet friends that joined the Navy one year ago and she said she got really sick herself with the flu and some of them had strep throat and she also said the closer they got to graduation the more sick they got. I guess this is a normal thing and Mitchell isn't the only one sick. We also will be taking our laptop so we will be able to communicate with the other parents. Mitchell told us that they will be able to call us after they complete BattleStations which his div. does it on 8/26-8/27 and told us to stay by the phone. We will have all our cell phones fully charged that day.
Well, it's not much longer now and we are in the home stretch and counting down the days.
Talk to you soon,
Marcy
At 5:42pm on August 7, 2008, Deb Scharloo said…
Hi, my son is in Div 314 Ship 07; his name is David Sackett. I gets letters every week and we rec'vd the 3 second phone call the day after he left and a bit of a longer phone call about 1.5 weeks ago. Have you rec'vd any info on graduation?
At 7:37pm on August 5, 2008, Marcy & Robert said…
DebDeb, yes, we get letters from Mitchell every Thursday. He writes as much as he can and sends them all in one envelope. We got a phone call from him 7/27 and he had trouble getting through because of the earthquake. He had called when I out. He did call back so I was able to talk to him. I got the sad sounding Mitchell; I guess cause he was talking to mom. He said his throat was still bothering him and he had this sore throat for about 4 weeks now. He just sounded homesick and tired. It sounded so good to hear from him. I'm sorry you haven't received either one of them. Mitchell at the last minute they were able to call home, he was even surprised. It had been extremely hot that day, with the heat and humidity he said it was 110. Hang in there, not much longer now. Marcy
At 6:10pm on August 5, 2008, Kathy said…
Wait did I read right? You have not received your phone call?
At 6:06pm on August 5, 2008, Kathy said…
23 days! Still no grad pack here either - I have booked anyway and hope I didnt jump the gun but airfare was just skyrocketing! How are you doing? I just read how the two Will's are buddies and have teamed up - that is so great! I jeard about that storm too! Well Im sure youre feeling surreal as I am about the phone call and letters now that they have started coming in sure beats waiting and wondering doesnt it?? Thanks for checkin in and hope youre well (and Will too!)

Kathy
At 1:19pm on August 5, 2008, DebDeb said…
No grad pack yet. Last night a horrible storm hit that area but Great Lakes faired well as far as I could tell. My family lives in NW Indiana (1 1/2 hours away from GL) and they had a tornado touch down and there is a lot of damage. My sister said her weather radio was going crazy!
At 4:43pm on July 31, 2008, Marcy & Robert said…
Hey I just thought i check in to see if yov'e ben get letters or phone calls. today we got a letter from our son Mitchell seems there ship got in trouble one day some male recruite said an improper thing about a female recruite so the chief that was incharge if them gave them PT till someone confessed and no one did so they received 4hours of PT ouch and they also has to go to class about it. anyhow just wanted to check in hope you heard from you son and he is doing well.

Marcy & Robert
At 1:29pm on July 25, 2008, Kathy said…
Hey Deb

Was just catching up on your info and I cant believe you have had yet another upset in your family.. I was so sorry to read about your husbands sister...
Hope everything else is going good and the letters are flowing in now. Gettin' almost half way there!
At 10:50pm on July 22, 2008, DebDeb said…
Thanks. My Mom just passed away in April, we had to put the dog Will grew up with to sleep last month, and then the week before he left for boot camp 2 friends he had just graduated high school with were killed in a car accident. He does NOT need to know about another death....
At 3:21pm on July 22, 2008, Angie F. said…
Got it, sounds like a good plan! btw, the Mom I mentioned left a comment right below your on my page, just in case you still want ot chat. =) She's great. God Bless your family.

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