A school start up

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Permalink Reply by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on December 23, 2017 at 12:08pm

typically start when they have enough for a class

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Permalink Reply by Tony Goss on December 23, 2017 at 12:42pm

Ok. Thanks. Do you know if they will leave him at THU until they have enough or will they send him on to Goose Creek as soon as he has clearance and have him wait there for a group to form?

NavyDads Admin (Paul) said:

typically start when they have enough for a class

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Permalink Reply by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on December 23, 2017 at 1:52pm

that I cannot answer............gonna guess though they will move him to Goose Creek and wait there

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Permalink Reply by NavyDads CoAdmin Jim Gramza on December 23, 2017 at 6:04pm

Unless there are no rooms available in the barracks. That was one of the reasons Stephen got held at Great Lakes for a month. Since it's Christmas, we'll call it, "no room at the inn."

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Permalink Reply by Scott Henry on December 25, 2017 at 3:39pm

They usually start a class every week unless, for some reason, they don't have enough students. When he gets to NNPTC he won't wait long before his class starts INDOC and then A-School.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Sexton on March 10, 2018 at 3:47pm

Tony.  Did your son make it to A School yet?  How long did it take to get orders after getting cleared and did he class up right away when he got to Goose Creek?  My son just got cleared to transfer from THU Great Lakes and I'm hoping gets orders this week.  He's set to be in the MMN pipeline.

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Permalink Reply by Tony Goss on March 11, 2018 at 6:56am

Hi Andrew. 

My sailor did PIR on 12/15 and left Great Lakes on 1/5. He would have left a little earlier except he managed to lose his ID right after Christmas. So the medical clearance took a couple weeks. Would have likely taken a lot longer if we had not taken initiative and lit some fires under people. And encouraged our sailor to be proactive from his end. 

Initially after he lost the id he was told it could take a couple months to get that all cleared up. Don't know if that's was just to scare him or what but thankfully it didn't happen that way. Took just several days. We believe because there was a huge graduating class coming into thu that next week and they needed him out. The real bummer was we had planned to go up and spend the weekend with him over New Years and without the id we had to cancel those plans as he couldn't leave base. 

He ended up spending about 3 days in the USO at Ohare because that was the weekend of the huge ice storm than shut down the Charleston airport. 

Once he got to Goose Creek he classed up right away. Coming in after the break I think was part of that. I think the speed of classing up really depends on the influx of new nukes into goose creek at any given time. 

Congrats to your sailor and your family for getting to this point. Ours is liking it so far and doing well overall.  

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Sexton on March 13, 2018 at 1:15pm

Thanks for the response Tony.  I'm hoping he'll be able to move on this week.  We'll see.

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