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Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on March 4, 2009 at 10:28am

Good morning all! Good to see ya CCR - should have known you were visiting the family, you've been TOO quiet! I do have some photos to add to the history group, even one of Steve and I before coming Mrs. ... it's old enough now to certainly be called history!!! But more importantly a fabulous one of my Marine dad from WWII.

What the heck you asking about blue/green for????? Is Patrick talking to the Army?!!! If you are back home today - call me.

Helen, FC orders cannot be issued to your son until he completes both A school and ATT programs...he is not an FC until that point.

They typically go look at the orders that are available about two weeks before graduation. Has he told you what system he is hoping for Helen?

Kellie - Mickie might be the only one in this group that is in the pilot program. If they are running it similiar to what they used to do, all of the sailors will start and finish at the same time. He should be able to ask the instructors what their graduation date will be. If it is instructor led, they will definitely know when it is to be completed.

Comment by CCR on March 4, 2009 at 2:42am

PS. Happy Belated Birthday Mary - a blue-green cake. Yumm.
Did you save me some?
I've been without computer at folks and am catching up.
Speaking of that - Jackie will you and Mary check with your husbands and see if they know of any blue to green program?

Comment by CCR on March 4, 2009 at 2:39am

Jackie and Barbra, when you get that history from Mary about the USS Donald Cook, will you please post it on the Navy History Group? and if you have any pics of family, would you post it in the discussion on family history in the navy? thanks.

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on March 3, 2009 at 5:32pm

Hoppi...have a retired hubby has many rewards...including the Navy wife thingy! When we were stationed at Mare Island, Steve would be home by 3 pm, he would pick the kids up from childcare and have dinner ready while I was stuck in the city with awful traffic. It certainly made life easier for me - we've always operated as a team and just let that part of "your" team...make your life easier!

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on March 3, 2009 at 12:18pm

Thank Millye, I hope the weather is sweet in Mobile for you. They had talked it was going to be 75 degrees here on Friday but not sure if that is still the case or not. Still have ice on my deck and patio furniture...

How old is Claire this birthday? You are so right...those of us that got to enjoy last Christmas with our sailors will be lighting blue candles in their honor this year..........I'm a big girl, I'm a big girl,...........

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on March 3, 2009 at 1:51am

yeah! Good for Luis!

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on March 3, 2009 at 1:03am

Membership certainly is not slowing down around here!!!

Welcome to: Darlene, Kim, Kathryn and Charlotte!

Comment by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on March 3, 2009 at 12:45am

Hi All, I may never catch up after being off line for a few days. Thank you for all the wonderful birthday wishes. I had the great pleasure of meeting Jackie and Susan this weekend - it was a lovely time.

Jackie and Barbara - the USS Donald Cook has some wonderful history behind it, I will try to locate the link and send it to you if you have not already read about it.

Hope the weather has been kind to everyone, when I left S. GA there were tornado watches brewing, big ole thunderstorm woke us up. Decided to head back to Atlanta and an hour later the biggest snowflakes I've seen where attacking my car ......it was cold and scary, such a long drive home for this transplanted southern gal! But it is supposed to be...75 on Friday.

Nick called and his classes were called off tonight due to weather conditions on the east coast.

Comment by Anti M on March 1, 2009 at 11:47am

Thanks, Hoppi, I hadn't realized I didn't stress the ordmods were for more senior sailors and not A schoolers.

Yes, FL for an ET is not an easy set of orders to get.

Verbal orders are worth the paper they're written on!

Nice cake!

Comment by Anti M on February 28, 2009 at 2:24pm

C schools ... okay. Some C schools are entire systems and the school is so long (six months) that it counts as an entire set of PCS orders all by itself (mine was). Shorter C schools are often dictated by the command they are ordered to; based on what the new command needs. These schools are frequently near the new command but not always. School en route to the command is funded differently than the longer schools, and sending a sailor to C school "en route" saves the command money ... as opposed to sending one of their current sailors off to school.

Sailors coming out of A school often do not get to choose their c schools. Some do get a choice when the orders are handed out. The way that works has changed a bit since I was in, Hoppi may have better information. Sometimes, if you know what your next command will be, you can call the command and find out if they want you to go to a specific school; you can request an ORDMOD (orders modification) in some cases. ETs have a better choice of duty stations if they have more gear they can work on. Schools are hard on dependents, because they can't always follow, but very good for careers.

The most common way to get more C schools is adding one to PCS orders, followed by re-enlistment incentives.

Overseas orders. Yes, the Navy likes to save money, but that doesn't mean they won't send a family man/woman. The family must be cleared to live overseas; a combination of health and safety and security background checks. Sometimes the service member is sent unaccompanied. This is not a preferred situation, but it does happen. Junior sailors with families aren't eligible for accompanied orders, again, the service member can be sent by themselves. Less likely? Yes. Impossible? nope.

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