First off, I just wanted to give the following praise report:

My daughter made it through boot camp. She graduated in mid-September from Fort Jackson. My wife and I flew out to Columbia, SC for Family Day and Graduation Day. It was so nice to see her after ten weeks. The longest she's ever been apart from us before was a week. We even got a bonus afternoon, night, and morning to see her before she flew to her AIT in California, due to a plane crash that closed the airport for...