My husband left Monday June 8, 2009 for Air Force Boot Camp, Lackland Afb?

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Lackland AFB: My husband went to Alabama MEPS Monday, and he flew out Tuesday to San Antonio, Texas for his Boot Camp. There was a man who left with him on Monday, but he didnt get to Texas till late Tuesday night, around 12am [Tech Wed] and my husband got to Texas Tuesday evening. The man's wife told me her husband called her Wednesday night with his address and information, but that he read by a script, with no emotion. She also said that he told her that she is NOT ALOUD to write him letters or send him anything! That his phone call was last form of communication to her. My husband still has not called, and im going crazy. Im scared that he might tell me I can't write him either.
What to do?
What to think?
[Boot Camp rules with husbands and wives are cruel and hurtful]
 
Yeah that doesn't sound right at all. When they first arrive they are in zero week and the next week after is total control so yes, it will be a few weeks before they get to make calls (albeit short but unscripted) and you will receive a note card in the next week or two with his mailing address so you can write him as well. In the meantime don't take what you heard about this other person as gospel as it just isn't true. Maybe he wrote that on the plane and called from the airport and maybe their relationship isn't what yours is I don't know but I do know the inability to write and communicate at a later time during basic is not true and it will come in time we just have to be patient.
 
What you must understand is the purpose of boot camp. When I went in 1990, we were told what to write in a letter to our parents or wife or whatever, for me it was my parents. My parents didn't hear from me for about a week and a half or so on the phone.
The purpose of boot camp isn't to make the bond between you and your husband stronger. It is to make him into the mold that the USAF wants him to be. It's harsh, but has been a fact of military life since the first armies appeared in the history of man.

Wives worry. Parents worry. It's part of the life him and you have talked about, or should have talked about.

He's not going to forget about you.

You can write to him, just don't give him any cookies or stuff like that. No food in the barracks. And for the love of Almighty God, DO NOT send him a racy picture of yourself. Don't even think about it.

It will all be over in a few months and you will be back together. This is also your basic training. Are you strong enough to be without him for months? Trust in yourself. Trust in him.
 
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