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Comment by Rene 1 day ago

Carol, thanks for the response bout the G Bill. He did find the online form, got it filled out and sent to the appropriate people. Yeah, i agree, it is much better than nothing.

Comment by Linda E./Justin div 161 1 day ago

Justin is Reserve, will be "Active" in Jan. Guantanamo Bay is the oldest and largest oversaes Navy Base there is. It is not scheduled to CLOSE, but Cuba says our Lease was up in 2002, and the US says NOT! Anyway, other than the fact the terrorists are held there, I dont know WHAT he will be doing at this base. hE HAS A FEW FRIENDS IN Cuba, WHICH i believe IS probably the same base. some SeaBees he knows there are doing work" building.......hopefully he will get more info at his Drill weekend........??

Comment by Carol F. 1 day ago

Long time since I have been here again. Life keeps me too busy, I guess.

Rene, my son started college again (already has an AA but wants to become a police officer so is taking classes to help getting employed) this fall and he went thru the process for getting money for school from the GI Bill. There is a form online they have to fill out. Then deal with the VA rep at the college. It is pretty easy to do.

But he ended up getting money for Sept. and Oct. so far. It is $333/month for a Reservist. What is hard is he gets paid monthly and the tuition is billed for the whole quarter, so it was hard to come up with almost a $1,000 lump sum to pay the tuition.
They don't pay for books and that is a killer. His books were over $500! But $333/month is better than nothing.
He gets GI Bill for 36 months. You have to apply each quarter tho for GI Bill plus you have to do what they call, verify, each month so you get your $333. So it is a pain in the neck to do that but.........is okay.

My son is just taking criminial justice classes and working part time still at the juvenile detention dept. here in town until he gets deployed next June. I hate this waiting part. He doesn't want to get a real life until after he gets back from overseas. So am still trying to deal with that.
He goes on the pre-deployment training session in Feb. for 2 weeks and guess it is what they call "helll weeks".
So any more questions about the GI Bill, just ask me. May or may not know the answer.

Linda, am glad your son is getting to go Active then. Hope he is happy doing it then.

Comment by Debbie Satterfield on November 13, 2009 at 8:22pm

Hi Linda E.
My son Derek was active SeaBee at Port Hueneme for 4yrs. It's a beautiful area near the base. He is now a reservist, NMCB15. As far as Guantanamo Bay, the only thing I have heard lately, is that they are thinking of closing it down, so it seems odd to me that they would send him there, but with the military, it doesn't always make sense. I would rather have my son there though, instead of the sand-box.
Have they moved him to active or is he still in reserves?
Please thank your sailors for me.

Comment by Linda E./Justin div 161 on November 13, 2009 at 7:47pm

My Navy Seabee (Reserve) put in for ACTIVE duty request. Today they told him he will be going to Guantanamo Bay Navy Base. Anyone with any knowledge of the happenings there? anyone know anyone WHO is there? He will be deploying after spending a month in Fort Humene", Cali.. His deployment will be for 6 mos.

Comment by Paula on November 13, 2009 at 9:19am

Hello everyone! It's been awhile since I was on here.Just got back from San Antonio last Saturday. It's been very busy around here with my daughter coming home and going back to work. Just wanted to let everyone know that San Antionio is beauiful and the pinning ceremony is very nice.I got to see some of the new sailor do their OC spray which looked very painful.The ceremony was very relaxed and everyone was so nice they made sure you got all the pictures you wanted. Also your sailor gets to pick who pins their badge on them.Hope everyone has a great weekend. Give all the sailors a big huge and tell them we are all so very proud of them...

Comment by Eve (Megan's mom) on November 13, 2009 at 2:56am

Wow I haven't been on here in a long time. Did any of your sons or daughters have to wait for a spot in Navy Reserves? My daughter has her physical at MEPS coming up but the recruiter said they currently don't have anything available for reserves yet. When they do have something at least she will be ready since the physical is already done. I'm just wondering is reserves entry different from active? Once something is open can she leave right away?

Comment by kimbokatbo on November 12, 2009 at 9:57am

If my son ends up in San Antonio, we won't be able to go visit much. Will look into flying him home for Christmas if that is an option. If he ends up in Virginia, we will be able to go spend a weekend or two with him.

Comment by MamaBear kk on November 12, 2009 at 8:52am

kimbokatbo ~ Same here! Return to college, and a part-time job, after Pensacola. I hope to get some weekends with him in Pensacola. Also, hoping for Christmas at home ~ we will see. ~ kk

Comment by Rene on November 12, 2009 at 7:50am

BillieJo,
I accepted your friend request, so am gonna send you a PM with what I can tell you about jobs afterwards. My son is currently NOT working civilian if that tells you anything. Not a lot avilable if you have no actual "field" experience unfortunately, in the IS area. He has been fortunate that his NOSC here, doesdowzens of funerals every week, and he has been doing Honor Guard as his job. He does make enough living at home, to not have to find a civilian job..but he really wants to be deployed. For many reasons. I will give you more details in a P.M. later. I was wondering, has anyone had a reservist actually get their GI BIll activated? my son has enrollled for January classes at community college.

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