Good luck to your son. The short term pain you feel will soon be replaced by a lifetime of pure pride. No one turns boys into men as well as the Marine Corps.

Yep, we dealt with that with my cousin (I usually tell people he's my brother b/c we've always been close). He graduated from OCS in March. We all flew up there for his graduation and commissioning. They literally cancelled it while we were in the air. He got to leave base for 2 days afterward so we got to hang out with him in DC, but had to watch the graduation on live stream from a hotel room outside Quantico.

Congrats Sir. I hope your young man has a great career.

I got James and Gomer mixed up. Sorry about that.

3%......check your PM's

Thanks for his service to our country. It’s good to know we’ve still got good young men who want to serve and make a difference. You and mama hang in there. It’ll be tough for a bit, but as time goes on it’ll get easier.

Congrats to you and your son.

Hope u get to see the graduation. It is a sight to behold. My daughter joined about 10 yrs ago. We got there right at daylite to watch them run. Was the first i saw her in several weeks i was a proud papa.it is amazing how much they change in such a short time. Congrats on a fine young man.

Thanks so much y'all.if you met him you'd know why this has been so tough.hes mentored to younger kids at the middle school football team.goes to church every Sunday on his own.only kid on football team all through middle school and high school that never missed a single practice(won a award for it by his self and got to keep his helmet as trophy which was a brand new design for that year !).he freaking loved practice and watching the kids puke that sat around playing video games and eating candy bars!lol very upstanding young man that's a much better person than I was at his age.
Very good hearted person.
I have no doubt he'll be a real asset to the marine corps...very proud
Semper fi... God bless USA