AE/CF - ET's & FC's members meet and greet.

[CCR]

Introduce yourself, we are getting so big! I can't keep up. As short or long as you'd like. I want to learn everyone's names and find out about your sailors - where they are going, what SHIP they are on, on base or on the seas, and what you hope to get out of this.

[Barbara]

Hi Lois, my son Stephen is also in GL for FC. His PIR was 07/03. Your son with first have indoc which lasts about 1 week. Then he will go through SCC (seamanship). This is about 2-3 weeks. It is from 3-11 pm. He will then have about 10 weeks of ATT (advanced technical training). Then he will start A school. Then he will have C school either in San Diego or Virginia.

Stephen has also had several days to a week in between each class. Also, they have watch every 4 days and they have duty as well. They keep them really busy. Unless he is on watch or in SCC, he should have liberty every evening at 9:00 EST. He also should have the weekends off, unless he has watch.

Do you know which Ship he is living in?? Stephen is in the USS Franklin.

[Seabee Dtr]

no he hasnt told us yet, but we have had horrible storms going thru and havent had any power for the last day. I am hoping to hear from him today.

[Mary, Proud Mom of Nick]

If he just checked in on Sunday, they usually don't receive their permanent home until after the SCC classes. He will stay on one ship for indoc and SCC and then moves to another ship when it is time to start ATT program. Once there, that is usually their ship until graduation.

[Seabee Dtr]

Thank you, I didnt know that. I dont think he knows that either. So the kids hes with now could be going to A school somewhere else. Wow there is so much to learn. Thank you all for being so helpful, it really helps when I'm talking to him and I can at least follow the conversation. lol Is the ATT part of A school or is that something seperate?

[CCR]

OK Lois, I just answered my own question about Jimmy's PIR. I'm still not caught up with the new AE/CF members. I'm lost - lesson to self - never stay off so long again- its too hard to play catch up. But my folks don't have internet at their house...
Yes, I am so addicted to NFM's I drove all the way to the library for only 30 minutes a session.

[Blair]

Hi all,
I'm Blair and my son is Eric, 23, and we are from Placerville, CA, which is between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe. Eric had PIR on 8/29 and initially was going to be an FC but was told during bootcamp that he would be an ET instead.
He is presently on the Franklin and is going through Indoc this week. He is hoping to be stationed somewhere on the East Coast once he hits the fleet after schooling. He said he has always lived in California and didn't join the Navy to see his own backyard!

[Mary, Proud Mom of Nick]

Ah but sailors from California often get orders to Japan and that is a pretty cool duty station. I used to live off 1-80 in Vallejo.

[Blair]

Small world isn't it! We always used to make comments before bootcamp about him being stationed in Japan and he thought it would be awesome. I think he is openminded to most places, and gets a kick out of most West Coast guys wanting to get back there, considering thats the last place he would want. Its ok with us though. We have to travel to Norfolk to see our daughter/son-in-law, so we will travel to see him too.

[Anti M]

HI, I am Anti M (margaret) ... I joined N4M originally because my nephew has just gone to boot camp in the Nuke program. He hopes to be an ET. It is a family tradition!

Now for the rest of the story ... I was an ET for nine years, hubby was an ET for 20 years, my dad was in the Navy for 29 years (Aviation, one of the old ratings), and his father was a WWI purple heart marine. Yes, World War One! Our friend Troy joined the Navy as an ET, is already an E-5 with his ASWS and is on hubby's old ship, soon to be back from deployment. We think his detailer knew my husband long ago.

Much has changed, but some things never do. I went to boot camp in Orlando, we had ITB (integrated training battalion) concurrent with A school instead of SCC. ATT was BE/E (basic electricity and electronics), it was self-paced them too; I bet the computers are much better now! A school was at Glakes, I went through just after communications and radar were combined. Went to C school in Ft. Gordon, GA for secure voice, yes, that's an army base. I attended other C schools as I changed duty stations, Mare Island (now gone), San Diego, even a micro-miniature repair school in Atsugi. I was stationed in Yokosuka Japan at the CommSta, then to San Diego for C-7 school (a re-enlistment incentive, advanced advanced electronics), then on to Diego Garcia. I met my husband there. I asked for orders to Sasebo to be near hubby when he transferred to his ship, instead they gave me Yokosuka again. Same command. That's why I didn't do 20 years, hubby and I couldn't get stationed together; we were the same rate and rank and NEC. He got orders to Yokosuka, the Ship Repair Facility, and later, Totsuka (AMCC II, decommissioned now). That's why I spent 12 years in Japan! Next PCS was to San Diego, my dad had been stationed there when I was little, and of course, I had already been there. Very strange dredging up old and older memories.

I hope I can contribute to the group, even though so much has changed.

[Jackie]

Welcome Anti M, We spent time in Mare Island as well 12 months of Data systems school in 1981.

[Mary, Proud Mom of Nick]

Great bio Anti M and I know you can contribute alot. We may have crossed some paths in my days as a Navy wife. We were stationed in Yokosuka from 84 -88 attached to the USS Reeves CG, part of the USS Midway fleet. Our sailor son was born at USNH in Yokosuka so he is hoping for orders there at some point ...we are too. We have one FC shipmate that loved Yoksuka so much that when he retired - he stayed and he is now in a GS position on base. We must trade Japan stories some day - we always lived on the "economy" and truly enjoyed our years there. We then moved on to Mare Island (loved Mare Island) from 88 - 92 where my husband had instructor duty for the FC C school. Unfortunately he injured his back and was not able to retire from the Navy but did 10 years and now works in a GS position so those years did not go to waste.

[Anti M]

I know the Reeves!

I was at Commsta Yokosuka from 81-84, san diego 85, Diego Garcia 85-86, then commsta again at Yoko 87-89. After I got out, I was a substitute teacher at Kinnick HIgh school from 89 to 95. Loved it! And yes, we lived on the economy too ... cutest funky old Japanese house ever, with excellent neighbors. Hubby was a neighborhood hero, no one of the other husbands were "handy men." He'd volunteer to fix and repair things, and to build benches for the old ladies as we lived at top of very stairs on a hillside. We got "presentos" all the time.