For customer service, please email us at info getpennytalk. Add to favorites We'll recommend more based on your picks. We'll alert you about price drops. Create your own, custom app lists. Created by you. Create new. You're viewing an iOS app. Find it for Android. I will try to call in about 3 weeks. Love ya. I gotta go. Recruits are sometimes given up to 2 minutes for this call, but many still stick with the four pieces of information that they have to relay and cut the call short.
This call can come at any time, even in the wee hours of the morning for some depending on the flight or bus schedule. If your recruit took a cell phone with him or her, then this will be the last call from that phone before your recruit packs it into "the box" for storage in GL to get back after leaving RTC. There are no phone banks at Inprocessing. The RDC's will permit recruits to make that call later if they were unable to make it, but many recruits choose not to do that because they do not want to be singled out and the call would be scripted and supervised by the RDC.
These "make up" calls have been coming on the weekend after arrival for most, but can come on any day one to five days after arrival. Some recruits have snuck in an extra call by saying that they did not get to make the call upon arrival and so their loved ones get the scripted call or something similar when the "make up" calls are made, which can be a little confusing since it is pretty much the same call that they received a few days earlier. Note: Even though your recruit may say the first call will be in about 2 or 3 weeks, it could be anytime based on when the RDC is able to schedule a phone call and some are able to call before that.
There is no set number of calls a Recruit will be able to make. Most recruits make the "I'm here! Most Sailors will make one or more calls to say, "I'm a Sailor! Recruits have also been able to make a very short call within a week or so of arrival at times just because the RDC was in a good mood.
Calls before week 3 or 4 are most often due to needing additional information, often to assist with Security Clearance See more on that in the December 13, comment below by MSgtRet DIV The calls for information or due to a problem are supervised and the Recruit is not usually permitted to chitchat. Don't expect a call, but do have your phone available from 8ish am to 8ish pm Central Time and be pleasantly surprised if you do receive a call.
You may want to forward your home phone to your cell phone when you leave the house to reduce the likelihood of missing a call made to your home phone. This has worked for others and may help you to have a much better call. To forward calls from your home phone to your cell phone , for most phone providers the code is 72 , but it may be different for some providers. Dial 72 from your home phone. Then when you get the dial tone dial your digit cell phone number including area code.
You should hear a couple of tones and your cell phone should ring. If it doesn't ring, repeat until it does and your calls will be forwarded to your cell phone. When you want to cancel the call forwarding, pick up your home phone and dial 73 it may be different for some providers.
Hang up and call your home phone from your cell phone to be sure that call forwarding has been cancelled; if not, dial 73 again. Check with your phone provider if you are unsure of the codes to use. Having a recruit who will have one of these ratings does not guarantee that you will get one or more additional calls for information because the Navy may have the information that they need from you and your recruit may have to call someone else for something or may not need to call anyone at all.
It is possible that a Recruit could call from another area code as well, , , are all area codes in that area. You may want to start a list of questions you have for your recruit and keep it near your phone. As with letters, don't share anything that will distress your recruit. GL changes over to dress blues the first full week of October and to dress whites the first full week of May.
The command determines the switch over date and it could change from that if the need arose. This allows the recruits the opportunity to attend chapel and know that they do not have to make a choice between making a phone call and attending a worship service. There also will not be any scheduled calls between those hours on the day of a PIR, which is usually on Friday, since the RDC's would need to be in the Drill Hall and available to the graduating divisions.
All other times are fair game. Calls for information or for security clearance or if there is a problem can occur during those times. The "I'm still alive! This is because the "I'm a Sailor! Calls for security reasons or for information most often occur during regular business hours, but may come at any time, even on weekends, especially if the recruit has had to try multiple times to reach someone.
Calls for additional information during Phase 1 P-days can come anytime, but usually come between 6 am and 10 pm CST--even on weekends because recruits do not have holiday routine while in Phase 1 P-days and a recruit could be asked to make a call while in P-Hold. The RDC's schedule the phone banks and determine how much time the division will have. Sometimes an RDC will schedule only a short time at the phone banks and recruits are only able to make one or two 5 to 10 minute calls; calls have also been as short as 1 to 2 minutes, especially if the call is before week 3.
There are 2 rooms near the NEX where the phone banks are located and approximately 50 to 60 phones available in each room depending on how many are in working order. There are also 4 to 6 computers available in each room.
There are a number of reasons that your recruit would be unable to call when others in the division are making calls. The most common reasons are:. Be sure that your recruit has phone cards. Remember there are thousands of Recruits at RTC and it would be very hard to give all of them even 5 minutes at the phone banks on one day. There are generally or more recruits at RTC at one time, but when you realize that each of the 14 ships can hold around recruits, it could be many more.
Some will be adopted out for Thanksgiving and Christmas, so that means there are 2 TG's less at RTC on those days and those who are adopted usually do make calls while they are away from RTC. Don't expect a call, but have your phone available and be pleasantly surprised if you do get one. Calls on holidays can come anytime between 8ish am to 8ish pm Central Time.
If your recruit is adopted in the Thanksgiving or Christmas Adopt-A-Sailor program, phone calls can come from any area code because people from the organizations sponsoring them will bring their cell phones and let the recruits call.
Area code has been mentioned, but calls could come from any area code, so pick up even if you don't recognize the phone number if it is Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day. If there is a natural disaster, or other serious event, that affects a large number of people in a particular area of our nation, recruits with loved ones in the affected area may be permitted to make a short call to check on their loved ones.
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