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Does anyone have sailor that is an electricians mate ? questions!!!
My fiance is still in BC right now but he is an electricians mate. I am not to sure on the job and what it entails or how long are usually deployed for!
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Conventional EM, not in the nuclear program? There are two kinds of EM is why I ask. Very different programs.
It is a sea going rate, so he can expect to be sent to a ship after A school. How often they deploy varies a lot.
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He is not in the nuclear program from what we know im almost positive it is conventional. Now I am four months pregnant if he is on sea right after A does that mean he wont get time to come see the birth or the baby
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Because he goes to a ship does not mean he goes straight out to sea. They are in port now and then! But there is no way to know his schedule until he's checked into his first command after school.
He'll only go to a sub if he volunteers for that. So he'll almost certainly go to a surface ship.
If his ship is deployed (out to sea) it is highly unlikely he can come home for the birth. If he's in port, and if you should be in the area with him, so they'll certainly relax his liberty a bit so he can be there. If you live elsewhere, he MIGHT be able to take a few days leave to fly home (if he hasn't used them all up after A school). Some commands work with new fathers very well, but operations come first, he probably will miss the birth.
He can also put in for ten days of paternity leave after the birth of the baby (to be used within a year) ... but only if he is married before the birth. Feel free to ignore this bit of advice if you've heard it already: You two might want to get married for the sake of the baby. I know it isn't wise to rush a marriage, but if you're having a child, you're already committed. Do the courthouse thing when you can, and have a nice wedding reception later. The Navy won't pay a thing toward the birth of the child if you aren't married. If you are, it is covered 100%. I know this isn't romantic, but I'm a very practical person.
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okay ! thank you for some information :) yeah we planned on getting married before the baby and doing the quick courthouse thing haha we got engaged pretty fast too so i don't mind the no wedding thing. We planned on doing the marriage when he got time off from A school around Christmas. If he asks to go straight to his first command after A school instead of using the days to go home then will he have a better chance of getting that time ? He doesn't know any of this yet the way his recruits told him about leaving faster was he could make the birth. So i am just trying to get the realistic options he can do so we can talk about it after BC
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what are missions cycles and all those things ? and haha yeah im learning fast about missing things :) haha
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Mission: what our Navy does. A ship could have the mission of protecting the Persian Gulf, or looking for drug runners... lots of stuff.
Cycles are mostly for subs (I think, seahorse will know) they cycle crews, and stay out to sea a lot. An awful lot. I never hear from my nephew, he's a nuke EM on a boat. (Subs are boats, ships are ... ships).
Surface ships might have one big deployment lasting six months or more, and the entire battlegroup often goes out all at once, but they will also go out to sea for shorter periods of time. These are called underways and can be to test the systems, for drills, for exercises... they do practice what they do to maintain a high state of readiness. A ffew days, a few weeks a couple months ... lots of activity.
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okay now if he is out of sea and ports somewhere for a week or so am i able to go there and visit to see the area or see him a little or when they port are they just stuck on the boat ?
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Maybe. They have duty days when they must stay onboard, and they must earn their liberty privileges. Junior sailors can't always spend the night off the ship in some ports. They do get time off to explore a little, do some shopping and relax.
Knowing where they'll be can be tough, because it is often classified until the last minute, and it changes. So it isn't impossible, but it sure can be tough to arrange. Get a passport, just in case. He should get one too, a civilian passport comes in handy if he wants to travel or if there is an emergency.
But my mom followed dad to his European ports when I was little in the early 60s. So you never know. Dad was a chief though, and we didn't have a war on.
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okay thanks !! yeah i planed on getting a passport after we got married and ill tell him to get one too!
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