Pensacola A School

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Comment by Brenda, aka Sailor Moon on August 25, 2009 at 5:52am

Good morning friends. I hope your sailors/families are great. My son graduated A school on Friday. I am very, very proud of him. Congrats to all the other graduates. Have a wonderful day/week.

Comment by Otto Mueller on August 24, 2009 at 9:49pm

John, what is your son's rating?

Comment by John G. White on August 24, 2009 at 9:48pm

Week 2 of RTC for future Pensacola bound recruit (sailor to be), I keep reading all of your posts, and it is good to hear the information. Helps me to feel closer to what the boy is going through and will be expecting... Thanks Everyone!!

John

Comment by Otto Mueller on August 24, 2009 at 9:38pm

Edward, David R is correct about rating. There are A schools all across the country depending on what his rating is. P-cola, for example, is primarily aviation related schooling, sub school are in Maine, etc. And, when your sailor does get to A school, there may be a wait before his classes begin. Just remember.. "the needs of the Navy" will determine his schedule.

Comment by David R on August 24, 2009 at 9:23pm

Depends on his rate/job. My son is sched. to be at Corry (the other P'Cola base) for another 1-2 years.

Comment by Kirk Brooks on August 24, 2009 at 7:41pm

If Holly is indication it'll be pretty quick. She grads A school on 9/10/09 and is home for 2 weeks leave and then she's off to the Lincoln for her first deployment.

Comment by Edward Davis on August 24, 2009 at 7:19pm

Hello Father of new recruit and soon to be sailor, just wanted to know about how long after A school before he heads to sea?

Comment by Rhonda on August 24, 2009 at 3:49pm

First let me say that I'm a Navy Mom and very active over at the Navy for Moms site. It has just come to my attention that you Dads have a group too, how great! My husband will be happy to hear that! I hope I'm not out of line here, but I just wanted to let you know that a group of us navy parents living in southern middle tennessee have formed a "live" support group. We felt the online community was fantastic, but does seem to lack the one on one support and comraderie we are sometimes needing. We purposely made it a parents group as we felt there were may Dads out there that were not getting the support (and bragging time..LOL) that we felt they deserved. If any of you live in our area or the northeast area of Alabama we would love to have you join us. You can get more information by visiting our website http://navyparents.webs.com Hope to see some of you there.

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on August 22, 2009 at 10:20pm

Kirk- Click for a link to the Abe's website...might as well get in the habit of reading through it and getting familiar with the ship. If you go to Public Affairs tab and click on the Penny Press icon you can open and read past issues of the Penny Press and see what was going on in the Ship's newpaper.

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on August 21, 2009 at 8:15pm

There are a lot of "underways" before the deployment starts--- 1 to 4 week check-cruises and workups. She'll have to get her fire fighting qual and lots of things for all to learn. Deployment (typically has been about 7 months) won't be for about 6 months after coming out of maintenance...so she'll have awhile to get used to the ship (3200 compartments and miles of corridors), the routine and the base........and the rain...the what-seems-like-it'll-never-stop rain!!!!

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