Alex’s Boot Camp Graduation is at 9:00 am Thursday, September 2, provided he passes Battle Stations tonight. We have four guaranteed tickets for the graduation. However, they do have standby seating available and we have had friends get in through standby, in the past.
To go standby, I believe that you need to plan on getting to the base at 7:30-7:45 am. You will have to go through security screening.
Graduation lasts about 90 minutes and Alex will be able to spend some time with us after graduation. It might only be a couple of hours, because he has to move from the Recruit Training Center to the “regular” Great Lakes base. Because it is the Navy, that takes about 5 hours. He does have Liberty on Friday – Sunday, and maybe Monday, from 7:00 am to 9:00 pm each day. Liberty rules are that he cannot drink, smoke, drive a car and he must stay in uniform and cannot travel more than 50 miles. Luckily, we are 6 miles from the base and can shuttle him back and forth each day. We probably will have a get together/cookout one of those days for everyone who wants to see him but cannot go to the graduation.
Still no real news on when he would ship from Great Lakes to Coronado, CA. Last discussion with Alex is that he may be in Great Lakes for a couple of weeks. On that point, not really sure if he can leave the base during those two weeks.
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