Yes! We are leaving tomorrow to fly up there and Friday morning, bright and early at 8:45 CDT the graduation starts! The Navy live streams it if you all want to watch. Just search navy bootcamp and you will eventually find a link to it.
So proud and excited!
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Boot camp graduation ceremonies are very patriotic and impressive - you will absolutely love it! What duty station is he heading to for job training after boot camp?
BA - He's headed to Meridan, MS for A school (Logistics Specialist) and then....who knows.
Jeff, your son is a Marine? Congrats! Gabe was a Marine and I went to his graduation at MCRD many moons ago. That was awe inspiring. I can't wait to see my son come through those doors Friday. I have a large supply of tissue coming with me. I'll post pics in the alt.
Kat - You know just how hard it has been getting to this point. I just can't wait to see how this has changed him. I'm sure he's done a lot of growing up in a BIG hurry.
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Well, my son was in the Marine Reserve until this summer, he just got his discharge recently. MCRD was an impressive place, and graduation was an impressive event!
I'm well, I even started a new thread. I will probably only be an occasional visitor!
Graduation was an awe inspiring spectacle and Marc looks so happy and proud in his uniform. He is excited about what's to come but frustrated that he is on medical hold at Great Lakes for a couple of weeks. He's not entirely sure why and he doesn't want to ask for fear of opening some can of worms. I don't blame him. The government loves to find reasons to disqualify you from something! He's spending these couple of weeks escorting recruits to/from medical and legal and cleaning 'the ship' and standing watch. He said it's scut work but he'll take it.
We took him into Chicago last Saturday and froze our behinds off. It was 20 degrees below their normal and we were not prepared at all. It was drizzling rain too which was turning to stinging ice pellets in the wind. Oh joy! We went to the top of the Willis Tower and Marc went out on 'the ledge'. Crazy experience and he loved every minute of it. We went and had real Chicago style pizza afterward and, I have to say, NY has NOTHING on Chicago in pizza! That was AMAZING! It's definitely not portable but that made it more of a meal instead of a snack. I must find someplace here to get it. SO GOOD!
Anyway.....that's all for now. Nothing much else going on. I'll be leaving for Thailand and Korea on 20OCT so until then I'm going to be figuring out how to pack lightly for a 30-40 degree temperature swing!
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My heart is completely breaking for Marc. He was just informed today that he is being medically separated from the Navy. He is devastated and despondent. He had no other back up plan for his life. This was it. Now.....who knows. I can't stop crying.
He said they are separating him because they found the ADHD in his pediatric records. We had been told that was not an issue since he hadn't been medicated for so long for it.
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I am sorry Mish. Is there anything he can do say on the recruiting side or civilian side? He will figure this out and bounce back, I promise. Just give him time.
kat
Me-53(and learning!) S24, S21, D18, D17 Just keep swimming, Just keep swimming. Dory
Just search navy bootcamp and you will eventually find a link to it.