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Ship 12 Div 095
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Permalink Reply by Sue M (SHIP 12 DIV 095) on
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Mayflower, this is Great..... Made me smile, too funny but oh so true!
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Permalink Reply by Mayflower on
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What job are all the 095 sailor's headed for? Mine should be going to Pensacola and CTT (crypto).
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Permalink Reply by Mollie (Ship 12 DIV 095) on
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Mayflower, my sailor will stay in GL for two years in A school for Advanced Electronics. Pensacola is only about an hour and half from my house. That would've been awesome!
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Permalink Reply by HapsMom on
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My son is going to Pensacola too. And Mayflower there are questionnaires on this site similar to your idea for a letter. I've made a couple for my son and sent them to him....he hasn't returned one yet so I don't know if he liked them or not. He's not much of a writer so I thought it would be easier if I did it that way. I also included a self addressed envelope with a stamp on it so all he had to do is answer and return....but like I said...those haven't come back to me yet.
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Permalink Reply by Mommy Erin (Ship12 Div 095) on
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My son is going to Groton, CT. He is going to submarine school. I have mixed emotions about it. His school will last so long I have time to adjust.
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Permalink Reply by kylesmom on
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Mayflower,
I've checked out the questionnaire's and they are neat, but your Nav-lib was hysterical! I laughed out loud!
I believe my SR is going to Mississippi for A school.
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Good Evening Div 095..... So happy to see we are starting to share "where & what" our Sailor will be doing after BC. Our son will be heading to San Antonio, TX for A school, Master at Arms training. Is there anyone else in this Div with the same career choice?
As for my son being full of info, he's not..... I also sent the "question" sheet in one of my letters, in hopes he'll fill it in and send it back. As of today I haven't received any mail yet, but he said in his call on Friday, he'd
write and send it out..... Lord I can hardly wait for some answers from him. We didn't have much time on the phone, only 1min, 5sec. Very short call, I couldn't hear him well and he said he didn't have much time. There was a mom that posted her sons demeanor changed when the RDC walked in, I also felt that my son wasn't speaking as freely as he would have, maybe this was the reason for such a short call.
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Permalink Reply by SailorMom on
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Mommy Erin:
My son is going to sub school too. I also have mixed feelings about it. When my son first talked to me about it he had already gone to MEPS by himself -- and when he went he was trying to get into nuke school. There was some story about how his transcripts were not available to MEPS, so they could not put him into a nuke school slot and he should pick something else and sign a contract when he was there just in case he did not get into nuke school. So this is what my son did and once he had a ship date he started paperwork to process into nuke. However by the time his ship date came up that paperwork had still not been approved, so he had to go.
Once he had signed that original contract, there was nothing I could do or say about it. If he had been pressured by the recruiters there it didn't matter once he signed. I wasn't really thinking about what subs would mean for him since my attention was on the nuke thing and his was too. He said to me when he was getting ready to leave that he had some options to get out of that contract and wait for his nuke contract and I told him not to do that for several reasons. First of all the nuke contract was not yet approved according to his recruiters, and second of all I had heard that nuke school was extremely challenging: he was likely to end up on a sub anyway as a nuke; and also that people in that job end up with a shorter average lifespan because of the radiation. Also the wait for nuke is really long -- he would have probably been waiting eighteen months for a slot, which seemed like a ridiculously long time to wait to get into the military. So I kind of just let this all happen.But now that I look back on it I bet the recruiters get an extra bonus for sub volunteers and I wish I had been able to find out if there was a better choice for him before he got on that bus.
On the other hand, there are good things about being on a sub. Crews are smaller and that makes the ships tighter. Subs aren't "safe" but they are safe in some ways carriers and destroyers are not. He will not be on the ground in the Middle East like some other rates might be. And also they'll be checking him out thoroughly in A school to make sure he's really fit for that kind of duty. I'm okay with everything except the absolute cutoff from communication there will be from him for months at a time. This is my only son and he's young. The men in his life think this is all a great idea because they know that barring some very bad luck it's a good thing for his future. I just hope it's truly the best thing for my kid.
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My brother in law helped me with it. When he was in the Navy he worked on subs. He said they are 100% safe. He also told me the sub guys get preferred treatment. I do know that sub duty is volunteer. My son couldn't get nuke because he has a ged. I think they must be having a hard time getting good smart guys into the Navy. Gosh, these smart boys could do about anything they want. My son had a super rough first two weeks in bootcamp. I think I cried for the whole two weeks. I am a navy veteran, I didn't want him to go at all. Times are different, I can send you to collage!!!! What rate is your son getting? The SCEF?
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:) Yeah, Mommy Erin -- he's SECF. I heard from somebody too who said that subs are 100 percent safe. In fact I've heard due to the very small number of personnel on the boat hes even safer from *other people* if you know what I mean.
I'm soooo sorry he had a rough transition, that must have been heart wrenching. We live close to GL so I'm pretty sure that was a factor in how calm my son was about it when you live close to base anyway it might not seem so bad. Times are different and they can go to college but...I don't know about this economy for young people. I know my son now has employment and college taken care of on his own for the next ten years.
Doesn't help the heartache though. I'd rather be hanging around with him in the living room watching bad TV.
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By the way I was looking at the Creo for December last night. Everything but nuke, subs, cryptology, SEALS and Divers and musicians are either overmanned or optimally manned in *all* paygrades. That's all that's open. In a way they're lucky they're there at all right now.
So I keep telling myself...
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I found this on another part of the site:
Page 12 -- it's about BESS
http://www.navy.mil/media/allhands/acrobat/AH201004.pdf -
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