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Comment by Anti M on July 29, 2012 at 9:28am

Oh, 33 weeks is just ET A school.  First she goes through indoc, then ATT which is prep school for electronics, then waits to class up for A school.  Then she can start her 33 weeks.  She should get her C school orders toward the end of A school, but some have had to wait on hold for orders for that, as the C schools are quite full.  Expect at least a year at Glakes.  Is she an ET or FC?

Comment by lkbmom245 on July 29, 2012 at 7:36am

Does anyone have a sailor going to A school at Great Lakes for AECF ? My daughter has her PIR on Aug 10th and will go immediately to get a settled for school. What exactly do they do and how much time does it take to get thru this school ? I heard something like 33 weeks plus C school ?

Comment by Anti M on July 27, 2012 at 12:44pm

On graduation weekend it is 50 miles, but you'll be so hammered from boot camp, all you'll want to do is hang out in a hotel and do stuff like take a shower by yourself.

Comment by Anti M on July 27, 2012 at 9:40am

I've answered the "when to marry" question an awful lot....  I'm in the "sooner is easier" boat, whereas others will tell you to concentrate on your training.  Both points of view are valid and depend a whole lot on the maturity of the couple.  

Comment by Anti M on July 27, 2012 at 9:34am

Once you get past phase one liberty, which only takes a couple weeks, you can go off base within 300 miles.  Visitors are okay.  No offbase overnights until phase three, and then only weekends (but not Sunday night).  So by the time you're in ATT, you can go to the mall or into town as long as you're back on time.

Have your fiance join one of the girlfriends groups here, she'll need the support and the information.  Your recruiter will tell you differently, but if you two are anywhere near ready to marry, do it before you leave.  It will save you an incredible number of headaches later.

Comment by Anti M on July 27, 2012 at 9:06am

33 weeks for ET and a little less for that for FC (27?).  However, that is only the A school seat time.  There's so much more to Great Lakes than that.  First you'd go to indoc, which introduces you to base policy, liberty phases and duty days (all A schools have this).  Then you go through ATT (apprentice technical training) which is the building blocks of electronics.  Then you wait to class up, for enough student sailors to finish ATT also.  While on hold, you'll be assigned daily work, stuff like cleaning or maybe office work.  Then you go through A school.  Then you get (or wait for ) orders, usually to a C school for specific gear or entire system.  Then you get to go to the fleet.  

Almost every rate will have hold times during training.  

I was an ET, although quite a while ago.  I was trained on crypto communications, a system which is now mostly outdated now. ETs do communications, or radar, or maybe computers... and they can go to multiple C schools throughout their career.  FCs train on weapons systems.  

Comment by Anti M on July 27, 2012 at 7:43am

That's a new one in the rumor mill.  Be interesting to see if it happens, and for how many FCs, before they turn all the ones behind them who haven't begin A school  into ETs instead, and cut way back on AECF recruiting.   With the budget under scrutiny, I have to wonder if they were going to expand the C schools and it go put on hold?

But eventually they have to go to C school or all that training is somewhat wasted. Quad zeroes can't work directly on a lot of the systems.  

Comment by breuder2313 on July 26, 2012 at 10:21pm

My husband graduates A school in 6 weeks. Said there's word that they are going to start giving FCs the option of shore duty for TWO years before they even attend C school because they are so overmanned in the fleet. It could be beneficial for us--- but he doesn't think many others will
Look at it that way. :-/ anyone else heard this news???

Comment by Navymomsquared on July 26, 2012 at 9:50pm

My son will graduate A school for FC in 3 weeks. Anyone ever attend that graduation? Any any recent grads from A achool? How long has the wait been before C school is starting? I would love for my son to get SD since we live in Cali but if he has his way he will be Aegis & be in VA.

Comment by Anti M on July 26, 2012 at 9:15am

I'd never heard of going out faster if you did better, that could be new.  Or they could have the list of names by class rank instead of alphabetically?  I do know that if there is a "hot" set of orders (billet is gapped and they need a qualified warm body ASAP), then whoever comes up first is sent there, whether from the fleet or from school.  Could be mere coincidence.  Best student leaving first has not previously been policy, but that doesn't mean it isn't now.  

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