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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.
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Will be going in as LS/ FTS in 20110208. Any comments?
Hi all, Ive been scanning through sevearal topics in the forum about LS rating, but more specifically the FTS program. I just want opinions, experiences and/or advice from FTS go-ers. So far, Ive heard that you wont deploy as much as active duty and you'll stick with only one command the entire time. But other than that, I dont know what else to expect, for one, as far as day to day living. And also in terms of anything I should be doing now in the 6 or so months I have before boot camp. Plus, Im not sure what to expect out of the LS rating in general; all I know is that its more so inventory and postal stuff. At MEPS, they said its the closest to business management as far as Navy ratings go, but Im not too sure how true that actually is.
Sidenote: Im preparing for everything even more detailed than usual because none of my family, including my parents and younger siblings (14& 10) will know until about 2,3 months before I leave for bootcamp. So, I want to have everything figured out to pass along to my family so they can make it to graduation and keep up with me throughout my enlistment.
Any comments are gladly welcome :) thanks navy fam.
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Permalink Reply by JessicaB-Sailor Mom on
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Join this group http://www.navyformoms.com/group/deppersinbutnotyet read some of the discussions for good info
There is a group for each month rcts leave "Leavin for Boot Camp in (month they leave)" search groups and join this group...it will have info as well as connect you with other N4M's whose rcts leave that month.
I read the following book before my son went to BC:
Honor, Courage, Commitment: Navy Boot Camp by J. F. Leahy
It's was written in 2000, so some things have changed at BC since then, but still it was a huge help to me to be able to "kind of understand" what my son was going through each week.
I also bought
The Bluejacket's Manual, 24th Edition (Bluejackets' Manual) by Thomas J. Cutler
It's the book they get in BC and it does help when you don't understand something your SR or sailor is talking about to be able to look it up in that manual.
Finally, I haven't read this yet, but my son did before he left:
A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy by Thomas J. Cutler
All can be purchased through Amazon.
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