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My son has been in for 3 weeks now and we have not received a letter  with his address. When should we expect it?

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   You should get the Form letter anytime this week. It will have all of the info for PIR, the password for your parking pass, and his Division assignment and address! Best of luck to your Son!

Jeff, I would go ahead and call them. My Son left 1 July and we got his form letter last week. 

My daughter left July 8 and am wondering the same thing, how long it takes and why the Navy makes it difficult to communicate with your child and give them words of encouragement.  when I was in the Army Basic Training we were told to write early and often so we could get letters from home and help keep our minds right.  hopefully it does not take 3 weeks or more to hear from my daughter, I would go nuts and probably drive to great lakes from California to get answers.

Typically the first 4-10 days  after the new recruits arrive at RTC are called Processing Days or P-Days.  Around holidays and sometimes for unforeseen issues (flight delays, severe weather, etc.) P-days can last up to 14 days.  Although recruits are assigned to a ship and division upon arrival, these assignments are not final and they do not move to their designated ship until P-days are over.   Unplanned events may change that ship assignment.   Your sailor's recruiter may give you an address a day or two after your recruit arrived at Great Lakes with a particular division that may not be final. This is why NavyDads always advises you to wait for your sailor's form letter with his or her correct address.  That letter typically arrives 5-10 days after they have shipped to RTC. 

When a group of new Recruits arrives at the RTC, they go through a simple sorting provess - those with a Musician (MU) rating and those with music or flag/drill experience are assigned to a 900 division (if those are needed) and those going into Special Ops are sent to the 800 division. There are usually only 25 or fewer 800 divisions a year, so not every TG will have one, but some TG's have one or two 800 divisions. The remaining recruits are generally assigned randomly, mostly as they arrive, to additional divisions. Generally a TG has 10 or fewer divisions currently.  Seldom are more than four divisions filled on a particular day. In that case, recruits with similar ratings will end up in the same TG, but not necessarily in the same division. Once one division is full, they start filling another, so divisions often end up with groups of recruits from only a few areas. The Recruits' ratings do not influence which division they will be placed in except for those placed in an 800- or a 900-series division. Females are placed in integrated divisions, containing both males and females, or in an all female division. Males are placed in either an integrated or all male division depending on the sort as they arrive. 800-series divisions are all male most of the year, but can also be integrated divisions at times when there are female candidates for AIRR and/or EOD.

Hang in there my man, when my girlfriend got shipped to RTC on May 27th we waited 2 weeks for her forum letter and her box, believe it or not I got a phone call the weekend that we received the fourm letter 3 weeks into training. She was stuck in the P days for 2 plus weeks because of lack of recruits that went in the same day she did which made her very upset because she was suppose to have her PIR this week Friday 7/17, but not its firday 7/24 and I'm having surgery next week and it kills me not being able to go her PIR had it planned and almost was ready to buy the plane ticket and that happened so she will be there an extra week because of it, instead of 8 it turned into 9 weeks. Keep your head up and your cell phone on loud ring, it will show a number that looks out of country answer it at no matter what time because it maybe your recruit. Trust me it's been a long 8 weeks since she had been gone. Trust me when I say make sure you have your phone on ring I mean tell your bosses at work because there calls will last from 5 to 45 minutes. Longest call was 30 minutes with my girlfriends after she talked with her parents for almost 15 minutes because she thought they would be getting kicked out early.

   Guys....part of the process is to "breakdown" the recruit and rebuild them to become sailors. This requires a complete separation from their civilian life as they learn a new set of skills to carry forward into their military life. Their days are regulated and completely filled as they make their way through Basic. Usually around Weeks 3-4 they begin to communicate with those of us at home. You will get a phone call and begin to receive letters. They normally write on Sundays...so wait by the mailbox on Wednesdays! As it has been said....the days go by slowly, but the weeks fly by. The first few weeks are the hardest as parents as we have to get used to the idea of being cut-off from our kids! Hang in there....the reward is well worth the journey! Best of luck to everyone's Sailor/Recruits!!!

Welcome to snail mail Jeff, i look forward to Thursday's now. I know it sucks at first but write as much as you can he will be very happy once he gets all of the letters you wrote already

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