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O.T. He made it in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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super99

08-01-2006 16:22:35




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A few weeks ago, I posted that my son was going to join the Navy. We took him to Chicago to recruiters office and the next day they sent him home because he was 1% overweight. I got him a job on a bin crew for 2 weeks, figured he would sweat off enough to get in. Took him up again last Thursday and he had lost 8#. They said they had a few tricks to try on him and would get him in one way or another. He called on Friday afternoon and said he made it. He said when he got to the hotel, they pulled out a roll of sarhan wrap and told him to go down and buy a tube of Preparation H. They put the whole tube on his waist and wrapped him in sarhan wrap and told him to go to bed. The next morning, his waist was 1 1/2 inches smaller. It worked, he got in. Looking forward to hearing from him in a couple weeks. Chris

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Fred Martin

08-02-2006 08:00:20




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 Re: O.T. He made it in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to super99, 08-01-2006 16:22:35  
Yes sir, I remember navy boot camp very well. First off was to take everything out of your pockets and put it in a box and mail it home to Mom and Dad. Next thing was to fall in and stand there without itching, twitching or whatever and that took the lot of us TWO HOURS....at attention! Next was haircuts. Next was the issue of clothing...and those boots were called "Boondockers." And if memory serves me correctly, they were like suede on the outside...it took a little extra effort to get "em shined up. Next was a march to Nimitz Island to the barracks. Class 037 USNTC San Diego....1959 Fred OH

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Kelly C

08-02-2006 07:14:50




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 Re: O.T. He made it in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to super99, 08-01-2006 16:22:35  
HAHA thats funny. I had to go the other way when I went in the Army in 1980. I was 6 foot 3 at 137 pounds and that was when wet. Min was 140 pounds.

I ate 6 pounds of Bannanas before going in the 2nd time. Made the wieght.
But boy did I have a tummy ache that eve.

Came out 3 years later at 6 foot 4 210 pounds. Must have been all that good Army chow :-)



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jddriver

08-01-2006 21:10:27




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 Re: O.T. He made it in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to super99, 08-01-2006 16:22:35  
Thank-you to your family for your sacrifice and how about an email address when he gets it



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Roland (AL)

08-01-2006 20:49:56




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 Re: O.T. He made it in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to super99, 08-01-2006 16:22:35  
Tell him thank you and I am proud of the young men and women that keep us safe . He can get a lot of good education, (book and life) from the navy. Sounds like a real good boy (MAN). Be sure to carry a good video recorder with extra battries to the graduation, it is a grand thing to see, esp. the entrance. You will understand when you see it. It can be a good experiance and he will see things and places that are beautiful,and grand that he might not have ever gotten to see. My son is stationed at Norfolk VA. now and just came back from the Mediteranian (sp) sea. We are proud of him as you are of your son. He is getting out next summer and has a lot of different job certifications to help him get a job.

Later Roland (AL)

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NC Wayne

08-01-2006 20:06:04




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 Re: O.T. He made it in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to super99, 08-01-2006 16:22:35  
Spent the summer and winter of '86 and the spring and summer of '87 in Great Lakes going through boot camp and school. Things changed alot just in the time I was in boot camp, they got more PC and not as tough. Basically we had to earn priviledges like wearing our "dixie cups" (white hats)while the guys coming in 5 weeks or so behind us were being given the day they got there. We wore boots and jogged/ran everywhere...they still ran/jogged but they got to wear tennis shoes. There were other things I can't recall at the moment but all in all it left us with the knowledge right from the start that the Navy was teaching us all that we were all the same, we were all one team and were all gonna be treated the same yet they couldn't even follow their own teaching. I spent 6 years total active duty, two+ on a Destroyer, two+ on a Carrier and the rest in school. I wouldn't take anything for the experience but you couldn't pay me enough to do it again. Just in the 6 years from '86 to '92 I saw things degrade from disiplined to dismal. Everything became a "political", s-e-x-u-a-l or racial issue. Rank didn't mean much, it was just something allowed you to give someone an order that they didn't think you should give or had given them just because they were black, hispanic, female, etc etc etc. Like I said I had plenty of good times and plenty of bad and wouldn't take anything for the experience but if things have digressed as much since '92 as they did in the 6 years prior I feel sorry for any teenager putting himself in that position today. That said tell your son GOOD LUCK, BEST WISHES from an ex "hole snipe". If he doesn't know already he'll learn soon enough what a "hole snipe" is...unless it's not a PC enough term for use in the new Navy that is.....

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mjbrown

08-01-2006 16:48:58




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 Re: O.T. He made it in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to super99, 08-01-2006 16:22:35  
Good for him. I have no idea what Navy boot camp is like but if it's any thing like Army basic as far as pt is concerned you won't recognize him next time you see him! Far too few young men and women volunteer for service in my opinion. At a recent July 4 concert when the orchestra played a medley of service anthems and asked veterans to stand when their service anthem was played, it was pitiful what a small percentage of the crowd was entitled to stand.

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van robinson

08-01-2006 19:15:13




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 Re: O.T. He made it in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to mjbrown, 08-01-2006 16:48:58  
mjbrown, where are you from?



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mjbrown

08-02-2006 03:58:23




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 Re: O.T. He made it in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in reply to van robinson, 08-01-2006 19:15:13  
Upstate NY, Cayuga County



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