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Discussion Forum
How long is A School for AD?
Started by imomxfour x 3 Sailors. Last reply by melbell Oct 4, 2017. 6 Replies 0 Likes
So how exactly does the squadron thing work?
Started by rmb. Last reply by Jakesmom Jun 30, 2014. 9 Replies 1 Like
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Comment by imomxfour x 3 Sailors on September 24, 2013 at 10:58pm
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YAY Bluewater!!! 3 more days, well not even...2 days and graduation on the 3rd morning!!! Where is he actually going? My daughter is going to be on North Island - Naval Air Station, near Coronado, so it makes me wonder if it could be the same place! ;-)
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Comment by Bluewater on September 24, 2013 at 12:24am
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Hi imomxfour
My son got his orders and will be graduating on Friday the 27th from A school. He will be coming home for 13 days and then off to San Diego as well which he is very happy about being on the West Coast with the rest of my family. Just wanted to give you an update. Hope your daughter is doing well Take Care
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Thank you Bluewater!!! Let us know when your son gets his orders!!! I hope he gets what he wants!! ;-)
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Hi imomxfour
I'm happy for your daughter that's wonderful to be able to be with family in San Degio that will really help make her feel better as well as you too. My son graduates on the 27th hopefully he will be as luck as your daughter. Take Care
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vtownmom, we're not sure yet if our daughter will get C School or not, from what I've seen from many past AD's, they do C School at their first command, sometimes right away, but other times they may *work* first, and then go to C School a few months later.
Our daughter got her orders this past week, and she is pretty happy with what she got, although it wasn't exactly what she wanted. She is going to San Diego and will be working on Greyhounds! What's really awesome about this, is that our son in San Diego as well, and so is our Marine Nephew & his wife...so she will have family there, aside from deployments of course. Her job will be mostly shore duty, even when deployed to other countries. She will spend very little time on a ship in this 4 years, which she is very happy about, lol.... She said she feels like she is getting the best of both worlds, the freedom that shore duty allows, but still getting to experience being on a ship at some point, for just a very short amount of time. She graduates in 2 weeks, I can hardly believe it!
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Comment by KimD0709 on August 26, 2013 at 3:50pm
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Sending friend requests as we "speak."
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Comment by Smile09 AD/HM Mom on August 24, 2013 at 4:45pm
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We can PM last names and figure it out:)
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Comment by sandi8 on August 23, 2013 at 11:13pm
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Since my son is home I showed himKimD's son picture but he didn't think he knew him. He thought Smile 09's son maybe looked familiar but he wasn't sure! He is in the Stingers squadron if I'm saying that right. He graduated boot camp March 1. I didn't realize there were so many from Lemoore on here!
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vtownmom, hopefully your son won't be down there that long! My daughter arrived 6/22, classed up for AD last week on August 14th, and will graduate Sept 20th - so just 3 months. She was so happy this morning - she got the highest score in their class on their first test today!! She was laughing, that "of all things," she is good at aviation warfare!! lol
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Comment by proudADdad on August 20, 2013 at 1:52pm
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My son is also an AD with the VFA-151 in Lemoore. He has been there since January 2nd and seems to really enjoy it.
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