My son leaves for USMC boot camp today. Prayers much appreciated for son, mom, and dad.
Will be praying for you guys. Thank you for raising a young man who is humble enough to fight for my freedoms.
Good Luck to your son. Sounds like a fine young man. His parents must have done a good job.
Prayers sent. He and you guys are in my thoughts.
My parents came out for a week before my graduation. San Diego is a awesome place, too bad its part of California. Take him to In and Out burger before yall fly out. Its all he’ll here about from all the geographical nonstandard sexual preference recruits.
Prayers sent for your young warrior. May his service reflect honor on his country and his family.
How proud you must be, to have raised such a fine man. 
We all could have done without that reference to MCRD San Diego recruits.
Thanks for the prayers, friends.
Best thing he’ll ever do.
1st. Congratulations to you and your wonderful wife for raising that boy and instilling in him the value set that got him to this point. You both can be justifiably proud of him
2nd. Thank you to your son for making such a courageous and unselfish career choice. Also, thank you to you and your wife for giving him the support in this decision.
3rd. Prayers for the safety of your son and prayers for you and your wife.
Prayers rendered. Write letters, and do it a lot. Time will fly for you, but each day will seem like an eternity for him. Be proud, as I’m sure you are.
Thank your son for his service. Best wishes to him.
Done and done. Good luck to him!!
Godspeed to your son.
Whats his MOS?
Godspeed to the young man and thanks to you.
8152 security and counter-terrorism (but his real goal is to make recon)
Awesome!! Worst thing I ever did was pick my job to "do the responsible thing.
Have a letter pre-written (start writing it now, content isn’t important).
Once you get an address (or know that company and PLT #) send that sucker out, mail is huge.
I hope it’s 13 weeks and done for him!
Three letters from my son so far and things are going well. He’s been quarterdecked only once (and took it in good humor), made it up the rope just fine the first time (another recruit fell and broke a leg), and was issued a brand new rifle to train with. IST scores were fine and he says he has a great SDI.
The only problem from my end is that he writes his girl more than he writes his mom and dad. I guess that’s to be expected, though, from a young man as fired up and full of vinegar as he is right now.