Your Letters from Sara

If you are one of the fortunate ones that actually gets a letter from Sara, please be aware of the following and respect what she writes. Thank you.

The posts that are made on this blog from Sara's letters are edited carefully to protect her privacy and the integrity of the training environment.

Sharing What Your Recruit Writes In Letters

1. Respect Your Recruit's Privacy
   Your recruit is going to write home and likely share the events of the days and the multitude of emotions that he or she is experiencing in this new and very different lifestyle called bootcamp. Your recruit does not intend for you to share parts of those letters in a public message board community. [for example, FaceBook]
2. Your Recruit Needs to Share His/Her Experiences with You
   Your recruit is very careful about what he or she shares with other recruits in verbal communication as well as body language. Your recruit would never complain to a drill instructor. But your recruit is going to share everything with you in his/her letters home. Those letters are your recruit's private conversations shared with you in confidence. For 13 weeks you are your recruit's sounding board for pride in accomplishments, fear of meeting performance expectations, worry about testing, trials of the day, and the myriad of both positive and negative physical and emotional challenges he or she is being tasked with during recruit training. You are the "safe" place for your recruit to share everything.