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Graduation?

How many of you plan  on or have gone to graduation? It is a long distance for us , my husband has not flown since he was a teenager  and I'm not sure I could get him on a plane anyway!  We are from a small town  so  city traffic seems intimidating to me though my husband is a truck driver. (He HATES traffic,too)  Our son doesn't go to boot camp until Feb 23 ( his 21st birthday!) but I am trying to work this whole thing out in my head. I have look at airfare/hotel/car pkgs and about choked!

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Permalink Reply by roxie05 on March 18, 2011 at 11:09am
Once they decide to go to bootcamp for training is it because tthey aare already enlisted? Once they graduate to they go straight to the navy?
judy rPermalink Reply by judy r on March 18, 2011 at 11:20am
once they sign the contract they are navy there is no getting out after that or at least not with honorable discharge...if there are doubts do not sign anything  as for boot camp that is the beginning of their training most usually go to an a school and some even have to go to c school after a school...all will eventually go on deployments..not sure this answeers your question.
Permalink Reply by Pearl Harbor MA on March 18, 2011 at 11:39am
I think they do get one last chance at the very beginning of boot camp to back out. But they probably do everything  possible to talk them out of it. Isaw something on a video where they were asking if anyone had any second thoughts to stand up... I'd be scared to death to at that point!!
judy rPermalink Reply by judy r on March 18, 2011 at 1:25pm
they can not back out they have signed a contract only way out is if they fail to fulfill their end of the contract at bc
Permalink Reply by roxie05 on March 18, 2011 at 7:17pm
oh okay thanks.
Permalink Reply by roxie05 on March 18, 2011 at 7:21pm
Yeahhh that's truee. Well okay then thanks its gona be hard noww. But ill support her. Thanks.
Permalink Reply by heytraci (ship11/DIV 123) on March 21, 2011 at 5:31am

Hi Everyone.

I am hoping that someone can help me out with locating some information I saw somewhere on N4M.

Someone had posted a form letter with quite a few questions on it that they suggested sending to your SR before PIR. It listed things like if they were grad and go what time they would be leaving the base and from what airport they would depart and lots of other things. The person who posted it said it helped with getting all the info back to the parents as their SR just handed it to them for their reference at PIR.

I have bounced around the site looking for this again, but I can't remember where I saw it!

Any help/info would be greatly appreciated.

Traci

Permalink Reply by JessicaB-Sailor Mom on March 21, 2011 at 6:18am
go to your PIR group and look in the discussion forum there
Permalink Reply by Cgutierrez on March 21, 2011 at 6:48pm

What happens after graduation? How long can family say?

Permalink Reply by JessicaB-Sailor Mom on March 21, 2011 at 7:07pm

it depends on when the sailor has to leave for A school. Most get to spend the weekend with their family (from about 7-8am till about 8-9pm).

 

When is you rct due to graduate?

Permalink Reply by Cgutierrez on March 27, 2011 at 10:32pm
April 29, 2011
SharonPermalink Reply by Sharon on March 24, 2011 at 12:11pm
I sure hope you will be able to attend.  It is a once in an lifetime event and one that will make you soooo proud.  We have been twice to graduation/PIR (two sons graduated at different times) and we wouldn't have missed it.  I don't know where you are coming from -- we drove 10 1/2 hours to get there and stayed at the Residence Inn in Waukegan, it was wonderful.

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