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Comment by Butterball on December 14, 2017 at 9:40am

Okay thanks, he is a FC

Comment by Anti M on December 14, 2017 at 9:37am

ATT is Apprentice Technical Training, an electronic prep school required before A school for some ratings, AECF is the big one.  Others will take Common Core if they are in the engineering.   

Comment by Butterball on December 14, 2017 at 9:34am

Anti M what is ATT school? My son told me he passed a test he was worried about, not sure what it is.

Comment by Anti M on December 14, 2017 at 9:02am

Phoenixmom, congrats to him for getting through ATT!  Now onto the next adventure ... after leave, of course.  Will he need to wait long to class up?  Does he know?

Comment by Phoenixmom on December 13, 2017 at 7:36pm

Have a Great Evening Ladies and always thanks for sharing great info and thoughts.

Comment by Phoenixmom on December 13, 2017 at 6:25pm

Hi Ladies just got a text from my Son he Graduated his ATT school. Very Proud of my Bud!

Comment by Phoenixmom on December 13, 2017 at 10:44am

Good Morning Ladies, hope all is well.

Missingyou you are in our thoughts and Prayers, I wish you the Best Holidays ever! And may the Love between you and  Son grow stronger each and every day! Amen!

Corinthians 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Have a Great day!

Comment by Missingyou on December 12, 2017 at 7:58pm

You guys are great thanks for all the comments I do feel better I miss my son so so much but I know he has a new life now and I will always be here for him because I love them so much thank you guys

Comment by Phoenixmom on December 12, 2017 at 7:07pm

well Ladies spoke to my son about watch or duty and he said those that are leaving don't or will not have a schedule to do watch only those that stay on base will be the ones to have duty or watch.

Comment by Allison on December 12, 2017 at 2:33pm

Missingyou I just want to kind of echo what AntiM said, there's a lot to get caught up in, and some sailors take their support system for granted. Coming from a kid who often forgot about her awesome mom, if it helps at all, I think you should feel at least a little flattered, his trust that you'll support him and be there for him no matter what is clearly very solid, and you built that with him, given him such a strong sense of security in your relationship that he doesn't have to worry about losing you…though I do hope he comes to his senses like I did and expressed gratitude for that and takes time for your relationship as parent and child. Now that I get it, it's totally not cool that we do this to our parents haha, but just to give you some perspective to think about. 

On the flip side, some sailors also come out of bootcamp and think they have to stand alone. It's kind of drilled into your head in bootcamp that you're flying solo and you shouldn't need anyone, and while the RDCs don't mean it the way it sounds when they say all of these terrible things, they're really trying to teach responsibility and accountability and all that, I found that a lot of people that had really solid relationships with anyone, whether it's a parent or spouse or girl/boyfriend, they start to push away towards the end or after bootcamp in response to that, and some, perhaps like your son, push too hard and do a 180 trying to be a strong and independent sailor. If this is the case, he'll come around eventually and realize that he doesn't have to be isolated to be a good sailor, and I think the more solid the relationship was, the longer that takes just from watching family and friends and thinking about what I went through too even though I was med sepped early…to get through that and figure out, "it's okay to need this person in my life." I almost divorced my poor husband after bootcamp over insecurities that came out from what RDCs had said to me to teach me lessons, but we're doing great now! Hang in there, Missingyou! 

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