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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
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**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
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Great Lakes A School Q&A
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The purpose of this group is to allow family of new sailors assigned to school at Training Support Center Great Lakes a chance to voice questions to a Student Division Commander
Location: Great Lakes, IL
Members: 2332
Latest Activity: Mar 12
Discussion Forum
leave after A/C school-- orders are confusing
Started by MANDY. Last reply by Anti M Aug 16, 2019. 2 Replies 0 Likes
What happens after ASchool?
Started by SailorMom18. Last reply by Phoenixmom Feb 13, 2019. 1 Reply 0 Likes
BECC Info?
Started by adubz33. Last reply by SuBHuni34 Nov 29, 2018. 9 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Joanie Tyler's Mom(133 Bees) on December 4, 2009 at 10:50am
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Kelly: We had snow twice last year, about 1 foot each time. That's a lot for us.
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I'm in south Mississippi and we have 1-2 inches of snow along with sleet. Temp is 34 today. Great cold weather!
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Comment by Anti M on December 3, 2009 at 6:39pm
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We have put a lot of money into a Blazer, for "the kids". They're the right age to be our kids, but they are close friends, very much like family. Anyway, I got tired of keeping that gas guzzler going, so I got them a good used Ford Focus. It got totaled (not her fault). So then we got them a used Scion XB, the toaster. They have a direct deposit to me, not much, about the same as a car payment monthly. Her mom couldn't afford to help, she assists her daughter in other ways, and his mother is still hounding him about back rent from over five years ago for an apartment over her garage. She could have given it to them rent free, she is not hurting for money in any way. She's just unwilling to help him since he quit going to her church. I knew if I didn't lend a hand, they would lose their jobs. Like I said, close friends. People think he's my son, we look alike. They think she is hubby's daughter, she looks like him. LOL, folks get confused. She wasw in the Navy for a while, but was medically discharged. Cost them an arm and a leg, and she had to pay back her bonuses. They were almost homeless, I could never let that happen.
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The first two years of my marriage, I saw my husband for a total of 28 days. we'd not had much time together beforehand either. So I have great sympathy for the couples who spend time apart seemingly needlessly.
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My barracks was right next to the chow hall, and since I didn't have a car and there weren't any fast food places nearby, well, I ate in the chow hall.
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BAS is food allowance for all sailors.
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Tiffany, the family separation pay is called FSA. I don't know if students in A school are eligible or not, I'd have to look it up, and that regulation does not make for easy reading.
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The chow hall at Great Lakes... ah yes. When I was there it was bad enough we had an officer from the hospital interviewing us about the food. These days I hear it is much, much better. Breakfast is usually the best meal, but you have to get up early enough to make it fit in with muster and school. The ET school used to have a small cafeteria in the basement, we got plates of hot hash browns for a quarter. I'd bet that's not still there!
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Heather: Look under the column "Entitlements", BAS is food allowance added into pay. Look under column "Deductions" Meal deduction is show for amount taken out. Tyler usually comes out about $45 ahead each month. His deduction is about the same each month.
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Heather, I'm used to the old hard copies, I don't know how they do LES online. I know they add it in, and it is a strange place, so it is hard to find.
I did find the new regulation, which lists the rates:
http://usmilitary.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www....
But really, it doesn't come out of the base pay.
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