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Help a Baw in Boot Camp
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:04 pm
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:04 pm
My son is a recruit at Parris Island. He needs a morale boost. He just found out that all liberty is cancelled. That means he will go straight from boot camp to advanced training.
No family. No hugs. No girlfriend. Just more of the suck. He has not seen anyone but recruits and DIs since February 3rd. He may not see anyone until July.
I write him every day, and he loves college football news and takes. I am running out of both.
He's a Bama fan. (I failed as a father). Can you help? I need anything remotely interesting to write him about.
TIA.
No family. No hugs. No girlfriend. Just more of the suck. He has not seen anyone but recruits and DIs since February 3rd. He may not see anyone until July.
I write him every day, and he loves college football news and takes. I am running out of both.
He's a Bama fan. (I failed as a father). Can you help? I need anything remotely interesting to write him about.
TIA.
This post was edited on 4/2/20 at 3:28 pm
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Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:05 pm to JudgeHolden
That’s the life. Rah
You want me to send him a bigger straw or what?
You want me to send him a bigger straw or what?
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:06 pm to JudgeHolden
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He's a Bama fan. (I failed as a father). Can you help?
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:06 pm to JudgeHolden
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He's a Bama fan. (I failed as a father). Can you help? I need anything remotely interesting to write him about.
Alabama has more national titles under Nick Saban (5) than losses to LSU under Nick Saban (4).
That always brings a smile to my face.
This post was edited on 4/2/20 at 1:07 pm
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:18 pm to JudgeHolden
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My son is a recruit at Parris Island. He needs a morale boost. He just found out that all liberty is cancelled. That means he will go straight from boot camp to advanced training.
No family. No hugs. No girlfriend. Just more of the suck. He has not seen anyone but grunts and DIs since February 3rd. He may not see anyone until July.
Lots of people do this anyway, or did 25 years ago. My AIT was mixed in with boot camp, so I was doing them both at the same time. All in all it was over 3 months long, nearly 4.
OSUT is what the Army called it. One Station Unit Training.
But the cool part about that for me was I was doing the advanced training after only 2 weeks rather than just basic infantry crap. We did that stuff too, but it was more like a side note than the focus.
Letters were always a welcome relief.
This post was edited on 4/2/20 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:26 pm to JudgeHolden
This is going on military wide. All change of duty station moves have stopped as well.
It has left families in mid-move without their household goods and/or a place to live (although the military has made adequate living accommodations for them).
The Army just completed a pilot ship of basic training Soldiers to advanced individual training on Tuesday. They shipped 40+ busses of Soldiers from Ft Jackson to Ft Lee. Restricted to 22 soldiers per bus, screening of all Soldiers, cadre escorts, and bus drivers was required prior to the move, non-stop 5.5hr plus movement on busses that had to be wiped down and sterilized prior to boarding. Then, they were screened and seperated again at Ft Lee.
Some of the kids that shipped had graduated 2+ weeks prior and were stuck in a perpetual training state. Like your son, all of their family and grad day activities were cancelled. So, they went 10 weeks of basic, and extra 3 weeks of holding, and will go through another 8+ weeks of AIT before seeing families. And, hundreds more from that original group have still yet to ship.
It is an inordinate amount of oversight and manpower to make a routine move happen as safely as possible. Ft Lee was low hanging fruit given the high quantity of Soldiers that train there out of basic training. It is the lower density MOSs where there still isn't a solid, safe and cost effective plan to move them. Plus, many of the AITs cannot ship out their soldiers to their first units of assignment, so there is a capacity issue at some bases that won't allow for shipping Soldiers, sailors, airmen or marines even if safe/secure transpo was available.
Yes, it is tough. But, the best thing you can do is write him and stay positive. Keep his spirits up and remind him why he joined and how proud you are of him. Everyone is going through it together. It is relatively short in the grand scheme of things.
It has left families in mid-move without their household goods and/or a place to live (although the military has made adequate living accommodations for them).
The Army just completed a pilot ship of basic training Soldiers to advanced individual training on Tuesday. They shipped 40+ busses of Soldiers from Ft Jackson to Ft Lee. Restricted to 22 soldiers per bus, screening of all Soldiers, cadre escorts, and bus drivers was required prior to the move, non-stop 5.5hr plus movement on busses that had to be wiped down and sterilized prior to boarding. Then, they were screened and seperated again at Ft Lee.
Some of the kids that shipped had graduated 2+ weeks prior and were stuck in a perpetual training state. Like your son, all of their family and grad day activities were cancelled. So, they went 10 weeks of basic, and extra 3 weeks of holding, and will go through another 8+ weeks of AIT before seeing families. And, hundreds more from that original group have still yet to ship.
It is an inordinate amount of oversight and manpower to make a routine move happen as safely as possible. Ft Lee was low hanging fruit given the high quantity of Soldiers that train there out of basic training. It is the lower density MOSs where there still isn't a solid, safe and cost effective plan to move them. Plus, many of the AITs cannot ship out their soldiers to their first units of assignment, so there is a capacity issue at some bases that won't allow for shipping Soldiers, sailors, airmen or marines even if safe/secure transpo was available.
Yes, it is tough. But, the best thing you can do is write him and stay positive. Keep his spirits up and remind him why he joined and how proud you are of him. Everyone is going through it together. It is relatively short in the grand scheme of things.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:27 pm to JudgeHolden
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I need anything remotely interesting to write him about.
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Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:32 pm to GeauxBichGeaux
I’ve done Tiger King already!
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:33 pm to Che Boludo
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But, the best thing you can do is write him and stay positive. Keep his spirits up and remind him why he joined and how proud you are of him.
Every day.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:37 pm to JudgeHolden
Find a way to get us an address for him and some of us can send him a card, a note of thanks or encouragement. I work with Veterans everyday. They are a special breed and deserve a shitload more recognition than they get. God bless and hope he does well...even if his daddy is a lost soul who like LSU football!..JK…...Semper fi!
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:40 pm to JudgeHolden
I was a Marine Corps recruiter, how may I help you?
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:43 pm to DocYates
Email me. Ostarine2019@gmail.com
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:47 pm to JudgeHolden
He’s a marine now, marines kill people they don’t hug them.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:52 pm to Possumslayer
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He’s a marine now, marines kill people they don’t hug them.
Capitalize M in Marine. Hes a recruit training to earn the title of Marine.
My suggestion would be for dad to look on the training matrix, which isnt exact, but ask the kid how each day is going.
Tell him about what's going on back home and pop culture stuff. I remember they said MJ died when I was there, he didn't, but DIs are pretty normal people that do relate with the young men.
I can't tell you anything about PI, only that my Grandmother went there. My Grandfather, Dad, and I went MCRDSD.
Funny how this tiger show is going on because they bread a Liger, which I remember in boot camp my dad sending me a drawling of a Liger because of Napoleon Dynamite.
Ask if hes made any friends, ask about life there, ask if he has any concerns.
I doubt he will get the 10 days of boot leave and very smaller chance hed get Recruiters Assistance.
May I ask what MOS field he will be in?
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:53 pm to momentoftruth87
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May I ask what MOS field he will be in?
0331. Machine gunner.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 1:55 pm to JudgeHolden
So he will be going to SOI for his schooling to be a machine gunner. At least he will be at Giger by Lejeune and wont have to hump the southern California hills.
He will have much more freedom at SOI.
He will have much more freedom at SOI.
Posted on 4/2/20 at 2:00 pm to JudgeHolden
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My son is a recruit at Parris Island.
He's lucky he is there right now and not in the summer.
This post was edited on 4/2/20 at 2:04 pm
Posted on 4/2/20 at 2:02 pm to JudgeHolden
i cant believe lebron just said hes going to start kneeling during the anthem
Posted on 4/2/20 at 2:05 pm to momentoftruth87
marine
Posted on 4/2/20 at 2:05 pm to JudgeHolden
If this is an issue then deployment is really gonna suck.
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