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My son just passed MEPS last week and his report date is 5AUG14.  I know he thinks it's a LONG time but he is finishing high school and it will FLY by.

I'm super excited and proud of him but, in typical mom fashion, I'm nervous and scared for him too.

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I have attached....I think.....the 'as you prepare for your future sailor to leave' article.  I hope it's helpful to you.  This is all so overwhelming.  As far as my son, he is the same as yours.  He thinks he just gets on the plane and leaves.  The end.  Not quite that easy! :)

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Hello! My son also leaves Aug 5th...Thanks so much for posting this! Very helpful!!

Ok, I'm freaking out completely!  No one has told us ANYTHING!

I saw on a list of required documents he needs to bring his immunization records???  I have no idea how to get those before next week.  I have a little yellow card (somewhere in my house) of his shots from when he was a baby but no official records after that.  What do I do?????  Do they actually need this??????  HOLY COW!

I am looking at the list we were given, in a book called START. No mention there of immunization record.  But your dr should be able to provide you with one.

I see they need:

  • money
  • phone card
  • ID
  • SS Card
  • Light weight clothes
  • Direct Deposit form
  • Prescription drugs in bottle if applicable
  • Most current glasses or contacts with solution and case

Tracy

Just checking in...we're getting awfully close Mommas. I'm just in a total funk. The misery is just building inside me to the point I'm just ready for Monday. Let me hug him & send off, then go away to cry my eyes out for several hours, BUT then get back to some kind of normalcy, some kind of new normal. Am I crazy? Are any of you feeling like this?
Awww Sharon :( I torn between wanting to get it over with and trying to still figure out how to stop time!! Many many hugs to you!!!

HUGS Sharon!  I feel the same way and it's totally not like me at all! :)  

We will get there and so will they!

I am in limbo. One part of my heart is breaking and I cant imagine my home without him. The other part is saying, Ok Tracy, you can do this, lets start cleaning out and rearranging the house.

I am dreading Monday. People want to be supportive of me Monday, I feel bad making an excuse to be alone. I really don't want anyone around the rest of the day. Weird?

I guess I am prolly in a little denial. But I am choosing to look at the positives for us both. For me, I can rearrange the house, I will use his closet for storing stuff that is in other closets right now, maybe more redistributing. His room will always be his room, but we will change it into more of a guest room/cat room lol. When my MIL isn't over for the weekend, the cat box will go in that room. Otherwise the cat box is in our .5 bath off our room. And god love him, my son is a "keeper" of abt anything. So I will clean out the crap. He has boxes for stuff he wants to keep. But he realizes too, most of his clothes wont fit so those will go to Goodwill. His keepsake stuff will go in boxes to be stored.

Done rambling,...

Anna had to go to recruiters office today to sign her seven days paper and I asked about the immunization form and they told me not to worry about it. Call your sons recruiter and ask questions. I ask Anna's recruiter quiet often they have been very helpful too. They told me that all she needs to take is SS card, drivers license, military id card, money ($45-$50), calling card and I am including stamps and addresses. Also a 1199a form for direct deposit.

I got the same info as JannaB... No immunization records or birth certificate needed. Today was Lexies last DEP meeting so I had her ask too.

He called his recruiter and he told him he doesn't need it but if he had it then he might get fewer shots and be less of a pincushion.  Oh well....pincushion it is! :) LOL  In all this rollercoaster of emotion that just made me laugh.

ARGH!!!!  It's a weekend of 'lasts'.  I hate that!

Tomorrow we are going to a hibachi grill (I hadn't realized we never took our son to one and he asked for it) and family bowling and then Sunday I am making him his 'last meal'...it's sounds like he's on death row!  Shrimp and Grits...his favorite.

Hugs guys!  We are going to make it......I HOPE!

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