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Comment by Dan C on December 12, 2009 at 11:52am

Does anyone have a recruit shipping on 04/12?

Comment by Bob Kline on November 30, 2009 at 8:00pm

Rosie is now exactly one week away from departing for Great Lakes. Wow how time flies!

Comment by Jim Butler on November 27, 2009 at 1:21pm

I'm not surprised that they've had slots open up at all, based on flu cases. West of Boston we've had entire schools close for 3-4 days because attendance was down to %40. There was another post over on Bootcamp thread that said they had large numbers of some divisions or trainers out with the flu. The Navy likely put out a notice to all recruiters stating that they had openings in upcoming weeks, and to accelerate DEPers if at all possible.
And no...no one other than her recruiter is going to know she decided to stick to the original date, and why would it matter.
I'm sure she'll be fine...and good luck to you both.

Jim

Comment by Bob Kline on November 24, 2009 at 8:34pm

Our daughter had an interesting experience today. Her recruiter called and asked her if she wanted to leave on Monday, the 30th instead of Monday, December 7, which is her contract date. She said no as she still has some things she wants to do before she leaves. I have two questions.

1. Has anyone else had this happen? With the navy as crowded as it apparently is I would have thought they'd be asking recruits to wait a bit to leave, not leave early.

2. Will her decision to wait a week have any detrimental effect?

Comment by Jim Butler on November 10, 2009 at 8:51pm

Seems like every recruit is going in for AECF these days.
2 wks for us...very excited.

Jim

Comment by Greenlo on October 28, 2009 at 12:09pm

My son ships to BC on Nov 12....14 days and counting.....He is excited and so am I....he signed for AECF (advanced electronics and computer field)

Comment by Jim Butler on October 25, 2009 at 8:15pm

Also, on Navy.com, they don't list Great Lakes as an A school location. His DEP paperwork and his recruiter both state that his Advanced Electronics Technician A school would be in Great Lakes. Is the Navy.com site outdated? I realize it's not the official navy site.

Jim

Comment by Jim Butler on October 25, 2009 at 8:14pm

Not much going on in the DEP group?...how come?...last comment is a month ago. That seems a bit odd?

Our son Christopher will be going active from DEP on Nov 24th. For some reason I figured that bootcamp classes would all start on a Monday, or a Friday, using the weekend for in-processing, but guess that was a bad assumption on my part.
Anyway, does anyone know if that week counts as their first week of bootcamp, or will they use Thanksgiving Day weekend to in-process and begin bootcamp on the following Monday?

Jim

Comment by NavyRecruiter Air on September 28, 2009 at 9:48am

Good morning ,
I am a recruiter in charge of a station in missouri. The reason your children are being told this is just as you have noticed; the Navy is full! We have very few people getting out because they know the recession will hurt the opportunities. And so many people are coming in we have a bottle neck in the pipeline. In short we want these young men and women to be responsible for their actions and be above reproach in today's society because they now represent the Navy. Thanks and let me know if I may be of any further assistance.

Comment by Larry Jenuwine on September 25, 2009 at 9:27am

We were told that the Navy is looking for ANY excuse to kick people out. They are currently way over staffed.

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