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Comment by Connie(Memphis Belle) on November 3, 2012 at 12:48pm

Happy Saturday my girlies!

joshmom, i am still floating on air!  Sissy got to see and talk to him too!!  when asked "what do you want for Christmas?" she said "I want my Bubbie home for Christmas!" she misses him so much...her Bubbie...the fixer of broken toys.

Comment by MaggieMay on November 3, 2012 at 10:21am

Oh Connie - hope you had a great online "visit" with your son!

Comment by MaggieMay on November 3, 2012 at 10:19am

Hello All!

Jill & Kira - My son graduated A school (ATI) in June (was in P'cola 6 months) he was very fortunate to get to choose his assignment and luckily what he picked was approved. Three classes picked at the same time and there was 6 assignments for Japan. The Sailors were asked who was interested in Japan and 7 Sailors were however 1 was disqualified for over seas duty so the remaining 6 chose the assignments according to their class ranking. My son chose 2nd and his best friend chose 3rd and without knowing it they both chose the USS George Washington. They both are very excited.

I'm baking cookies today....so much to get done before my Sailor gets home in about 2½ weeks!

Comment by Connie(Memphis Belle) on November 3, 2012 at 12:39am

good evening my girlies!

Jill, from PIR to the Fleet...one year exactly for my Sailor.

309 days since i've laid eyes on my boy.  thanks to google+ we all got to see him tonight : )

Comment by Jill (ATO Mom) on November 2, 2012 at 7:05pm

Thanks for the information marinenavymom.  That's kind of what I figured as far as class is concerned.  So the A school consists of the common core portion followed by the strand portion?  So technically the ATT class and AWAT class are just prerequisites... not really their A school, right?  So when the websites give a length of schooling that doesn't include ATT or AWAT, correct?  I believe my daughter's ATO A school is 51 days for common core and then 46 days for strang course.  And this hasn't even started yet!  It appears she is going to be in the Navy for almost a year before she even gets to the fleet!

Comment by Kira (Daughter AT1 Whidbey) on November 2, 2012 at 5:46pm

Speaking from direct experience with what Sarah had to go through (she's like my other daughter), Sarah filled out a dream sheet when she finished the "core" class and before she started C school strand in Virginia. Before C school started she got to choose between whatever is on the list and she turned down two other places and settled on Lemoore to be 4 hours from home in San Francisco. They get to choose their 2-year assignment based on how well (test scores and grades) they do in A school. So the better the student the better choices will be available to choose their assigned location. Sarah did very well and I expect Emily to do excellent, she is a great student and is intelligent and interested in doing as well as she can. It all depends on where they need people to what shows up on the list they can choose from. There was never Hawaii on the list for any of the students in Sarah's class, or she would have chosen it. Emily wants Japan or Hawaii or San Diego but we'll have to wait and see if any of those show up.

Comment by Jill (ATO Mom) on November 2, 2012 at 5:15pm

I'm pretty sure that after this ATT class they take a common core electricians course and then they take their strand classes (either I strand or O strand).  This is what I think.  However, I get mixed answers when I ask if this ATT class is the common core class.  My daughter isn't even sure.  She just says she will take whatever classes she is told to take whenever she is told to take them.  :-)

My daughter is hoping to get stationed anywhere but Lemoore.  She grew up in the Southern California desert and joined the Navy to be at a beach... anywhere.  Living in the desert outside of Fresno is not what she wants to do in the Navy, LOL.  She also is hoping to get helicopters, which I don't believe are in Lemoore.

Do most AT's get to choose where they want to go or are they just assigned?  I know that at times there are dream sheets that are filled out... do the AT's get to fill those out? 

My daughter waited 2 years to get in the Navy... knee surgery pushed it back, waivers, etc.  She was going to be a rescue swimmer, but decided not to put her knee through that.  Then she turned down jobs hoping to get aircrew.  Finally, they called her and said they needed girls to take AV contracts, so she decided that God was opening this door for her, so she should walk through it.  She still is hoping to crossrate into aircrew and become an AWV after she puts in the required amount of time.

Comment by Kira (Daughter AT1 Whidbey) on November 2, 2012 at 5:04pm

My daughter Emily joined the Navy with her best friend Sarah and they both decided on AT way before they joined. Her friend Sarah got sent to bootcamp 10 months earlier than Emily, they kept delaying my daughter, so Sarah is now an ATI in Lemoore, California. Her PIR was 12 months ago. Emily got a really high ASVAB was told she qualified for Nukes and her recruiter was really pushing her but she was wanting AT and she finally got what she wanted. She was in the engineering academy at her high school and she wanted to do electrical for a while now. She's 19.5 years old. 

After ATT class, what class comes next? I know there are 3 classes she has to take to become assigned to a location where she'll learn all the systems. Sarah had 3 choices of where she was going to be assigned, I hope Emily gets her top wish to go to Japan. I lived there when the twins were born (Emily's got a twin brother) and we all speak the language, her Dad is Japanese and she has family over there. We moved back to the US when the kids were 4. She has gone back many times and likes it there.

Comment by Jill (ATO Mom) on November 2, 2012 at 4:51pm

I don't know how many AT girls there are... but I do believe my daughter has met 2 other female ATI's but no ATO's.  She was very excited to get ATO, she is very much a 'hands on' person... wanted to make sure she got to be in the aircraft, not in a shop.  Eventually she wants to sign up for aircrew, then get her degree and actually be a pilot.  She has big dreams, I hope she continues to pursue them.

Congrats to the others who are classing up.  Not sure when she will class up for the next class, not sure if they will get things started before the holiday shut down... I sure hope so.  Otherwise they will all be there for quite a bit longer.

Comment by MaggieMay on November 2, 2012 at 7:27am

Happy Friday All!
MNM - what awesome news! Congrats to you and the happy couple. It will be a short but oh so sweet trip.

Hoorah for all the girls starting classes!

Have a great day and wonderful weekend everyone!

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