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Permalink Reply by Scott Henry on April 10, 2017 at 7:16pm

His ship date won't be determined by A-School schedules. They start a new class there every week. If his issue with his fingerprints is straightened out they are, most likely, just waiting on a slot to open up for him at boot camp. It's pretty much a numbers game. They have X number of billets for each training group to fill. If one opens up then it usually gets filled right away by someone wanting to ship early. Essentially what happened was when he was delayed with his fingerprint issue someone took his spot. I would, however, venture a guess that he will go sooner rather than later. When I was a Recruiter it seemed like it wasn't too hard to get someone's ship date rolled up. Feel free to contact me with any questions about Nuke School as well. I was an instructor there from 2011-2014.

Permalink Reply by TheMindy Meacham Berry-Hinkley on April 10, 2017 at 8:29pm

Thank you Scott. Fingers crossed!

Permalink Reply by Scott Henry on May 3, 2017 at 3:25am

Any word on a ship date?

Permalink Reply by TheMindy Meacham Berry-Hinkley on May 3, 2017 at 6:42am

No... My dad retired USMC thinks they may be holding on to include him when they may miss a quota this summer. I'm not happy about the delay. I need him gone! I love him but he's become lazy, disrespectful, and ugh!

Permalink Reply by TheMindy Meacham Berry-Hinkley on May 18, 2017 at 5:00am

Tuesday his recruiter confirmed a May 30th ship date. He leaves for MEPS on Memorial Day. Poetic justice there... I'm all the sudden very nervous and anxious... Sleep is hard to come by... with less than 2 weeks notice, changing my schedule to meet with the recruiter will be difficult but I will get there come he'll or high water.

Permalink Reply by Karl Goetze on May 23, 2017 at 3:35pm

Glad to hear he got a ship date. Gives me hope that my son will know in a few months when he leaves.
 
TheMindy Meacham Berry-Hinkley said:

Tuesday his recruiter confirmed a May 30th ship date. He leaves for MEPS on Memorial Day. Poetic justice there... I'm all the sudden very nervous and anxious... Sleep is hard to come by... with less than 2 weeks notice, changing my schedule to meet with the recruiter will be difficult but I will get there come he'll or high water.