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Moms of "A" school Sailors
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Our sailors are now in "A" school - let's share!!
Members: 960
Latest Activity: Dec 3, 2022
Discussion Forum
Leave during A School
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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on November 24, 2008 at 6:20pm
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Hoppi is an active duty sailor and is actually a career counselor for the navy and she is married to sailor so she has lots of knowledge to share.
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Hey Pine Farms, we have a group for ETs and FCs - please stop by the AECF group and join us.
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Joanne, STG is a group for Sonar Techs -
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/stg
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Annette, are you a member of the STG group yet? There are moms there that might be able to tell you about their sailors and how they got thru the program. He might be feeling the pressure of school - it's very diffirent that boot camp pressure. Hope that it works out for him.
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I was very impressed with the banner when we received it and this time they are offering alot of designs and you still get to customize them for your sailors.
I took time to send a thank you to Build A Sign - giving away 30,000 banners is not an inexpensive gesture.
3 out of 5 boys...WOW - you are going to have a nice holiday Melinda!
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I've had my "homecoming" banner ready for two months...hopefully for Christmas.
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Hi Ladies, some of us have been around here long enough to remember the promotion that Build-A-Sign ran that offered a FREE banner for your sailor. They provided 10,000 of them for just the cost of shipping ($10). We were lucky to get one (maybe someday I'll get to use it!!!) but I just found out in honor of Veteran's Day they are providing 20,000 banners just for the cost of shipping. This are nicely done and can be reused over and over again depending on what message you have put on them. If you would like one, I would encourage you to order them soon as they will go quickly.
Here's the info for you...
Go to www.buildasign.com/troops and order a free banner. Excellent quality, shipping charges were about $10. I believe on their website they have them priced at $65, I showed our banner to a sign maker and he said locally they are charging $100 for that size banner.
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Cindy, most A and C school graduations are somewhat of a non event - especially after boot camp PIR. There maybe a handful of parents present and they do have a certificate now that they will give to the parents but most of these graduations last 30 minutes or less depending on how many are in the class. Many sailors take leave after A school which can be another factor on attending or not - they can be on a plane home immediately following the grad.
I had not heard about the MA graduation - that does sound really nice.
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Comment by Debi (Ship 9 Div 126) on November 10, 2008 at 10:31am
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Thanks so much for the information. I think this is such a nice thing for us Moms -
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Debi, our nephew is a Seabee Reserve and he completed A school in Gulfport in May. Our son is enlisted and is A school.
There are alot of great Seabee moms on the site - go to:
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/seabeemoms
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