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Well my son Noah is leaving us tomorrow for Army Basic Training in Fort Sills OK. His mother and I have not been away from him for more than a day or 2 so this is gonna be kind a hard! I think he is ready it's just mom and dad that are not!!  He leaves out in the morning at 8am and wont be back till Christmas! Hard to believe my little boy is now fighting for our freedom... Proud but worried dad.... RC
The only difference between a rut and a Grave is the depth. So get up get out of that rut and get moving!! Time to work!!
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I'm pretty sure the day I left for bootcamp it was harder on my folks than it was on me!
Tell your boy thanks for his future service. He'll be just fine, and if boot camp is anything like it was 20 years ago when I went through he'll come out the better for it.
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RC, I know you're proud, just think positive thoughts.
He'll be ok…
Just do it...
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Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
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RC, wait until you get to go to basic training graduation. We went to Great Lakes when our son graduated from the Navy's basic training, and we were never prouder of him.
It was the first time I ever shook his hand. It was a man greeting a man.
The Hall family wishes him the best.
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Thanks everyone I apprecaite it! I have taught him the best I can now it's time to let him fly on his own..... I now know how hard this was on my parents when I left!! Ughhh...
RC
The only difference between a rut and a Grave is the depth. So get up get out of that rut and get moving!! Time to work!!
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Congrats, Corey! And a huge Thank You to you, your wife, and especially Noah!
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Congrats RC and tell him thanks for his service. What is he planning to do in the army?
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Congrats RC and tell him thanks for his service. What is he planning to do in the army? Well his grand plan is this. Join Army Guard, working first as a Horizontal Heavy Construction Engineer. Once he gets basic done and his AIT school done then he wants to come back and go to UCA for 4 years get his degree in intelligence and then go into the Army full time as an officer. I hope he can do it!! I told him nothing worth having is easy and you got a lot of hard work ahead of you but he can do it if he really puts his mind to it!! And thanks everyone I will tell him you all said thanks for his service he will apprecaite that and so do I!! RC
The only difference between a rut and a Grave is the depth. So get up get out of that rut and get moving!! Time to work!!
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RC,
Congrats to you and Ms. RC, on raising a man! Remind him often, he can be anything he wants to be. He just has to work for it. Godspeed on his return.
Charlie
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RC51,
Congrats and he will come out better for it.
Just a question for the others here that went to boot camp and weren't drafted. After the first day of being yelled at did you at least for a short while question your sanity for signing up? I know the thought that came to my mind was, "What the hell was I thinking?!" Of course I adapted and there are things I laugh at now. Like the time one if the drill instructors was going to send me to Leavenworth for not shaving. Never mind I had to shave twice a day to keep them happy (I was in my 20's when I went to basic).
We had one guy that said if the abuse kept up he was fleeing to Canada! LMAO!
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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Cecil, I'll say that there were more than a couple of times during boot camp that I questioned the decision....even though I knew it was mostly a mind game it was certainly the toughest thing I'd done up to that point. I think back on what's happened since then and laugh...boot camp was a cakewalk compared to, oh I don't know, say divorce? 
Dale "When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water." - anonymous
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Ooooh yeah I've never been divorced but would think that would be rough. Got dumped by a girl once and it really broke me up. But it ended up the best thing that ever happened to me. I would not have met my wife if it hadn't of happened. And in retrospect the girl was quite shallow and self centered.
Funny how life works that way.
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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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I think back on what's happened since then and laugh...boot camp was a cakewalk compared to, oh I don't know, say divorce? You got that right!!
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It really is difficult letting people go to become who and what they want to be without being controlling, but that's what Love is!
Congratulations to your family and son!
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I think back on what's happened since then and laugh...boot camp was a cakewalk compared to, oh I don't know, say divorce? You got that right!! It's also a tad difficult letting a girl go that you really Love, but you know it won't work. Oh, by the way, Divorce would be on my cake walk list
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Couldn't help but laugh. On my first morning some rude sucker tossed a metal garbage can down the middle of the open bay barracks. He was yelling a bunch of stuff. I wondered who he thought he was and if he knew who he was messing with.
I found out damn fast that he knew the answer to both questions.
Divorce a cake walk? Certainly wasn't for me.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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Couldn't help but laugh. On my first morning some rude sucker tossed a metal garbage can down the middle of the open bay barracks. He was yelling a bunch of stuff. I wondered who he thought he was and if he knew who he was messing with.
I found out damn fast that he knew the answer to both questions.
That was back when they were able to physically hit you wasn't it? I heard about a guy the DI got so frustrated with he put him in a locker and threw it down the stairs. That wont fly these days.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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It didn't fly in 1964 either. The CO told us in a big meeting to report any DI that physically struck us. He added that if we were screwing up and he kicked us in the butt, he didn't want to hear about it.
My Dad was career military so I had been raised on Army and USAF posts/bases. So, at 21 YOA, I pretty well knew the score and how to conduct myself. Other than being 4 years behind when starting a career, I have absolutely no regrets about joining. Being from Fort Worth and Muleshoe, Texas I had never met people of different backgrounds. There were Scandanavians, Italians, Cajuns, Jews, etc. I don't think I had ever even met a Catholic. It opened my eyes to a lot of things.
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It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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RC... Good luck to you and your family...I suspect that someday in the future you'll look back at these next few months with great fondness.
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RC, just know that he will be thinking of you just as you will be thinking of him. Reflect on how you raised him as a boy, trust in the values and morals you taught him and sleep well at night knowing that he's being trained by the best in the world, to be the best that he can be!
Congratulations to you, your family, and Noah!
And another thank you to Noah for serving (and to you as well as it sounds like you served too).
Rest easy, RC51!
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It didn't fly in 1964 either. The CO told us in a big meeting to report any DI that physically struck us. He added that if we were screwing up and he kicked us in the butt, he didn't want to hear about it.
My Dad was career military so I had been raised on Army and USAF posts/bases. So, at 21 YOA, I pretty well knew the score and how to conduct myself. Other than being 4 years behind when starting a career, I have absolutely no regrets about joining. Being from Fort Worth and Muleshoe, Texas I had never met people of different backgrounds. There were Scandanavians, Italians, Cajuns, Jews, etc. I don't think I had ever even met a Catholic. It opened my eyes to a lot of things. My dad was career military too. We moved so much I attended four highs schools and God knows how many schools before that. One I went to near Detroit in the early 70's had a race riot just before I got there. Yee Hah! I feel like the character in the Jack Reacher novels when asked how long he was in the military. He says all his life. They ask how can that be. He says I was born in the military. LOL
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No military service here. I'm not much on doing everything as a group, 24/7. Some things you just know you weren't cut out to do.
I've always been way too solitary, as well as too stubborn to function that way.
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If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
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They have a cure for those that are too stubborn.
But, in those days it wasn't optional.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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Thanks everyone, I just dropped him off this morning and shook his hand and had to walk away...... My little boy I just left him there like a lost puppy!!  Man that was hard!! I know he'll be fine just not easy letting your baby go from a dad's point of view! Ughh, not easy at all, RC
The only difference between a rut and a Grave is the depth. So get up get out of that rut and get moving!! Time to work!!
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