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Permalink Reply by Taylor on
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I am aware I can't live with him during A school! But he was told to start his paper work as soon as he got to school and when he recieves them I come out there and we get married so I will be on his duty papers! That is what he has been told in bootcamp! And explained it to me but wasn't sure how long it took to get paper work back!
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Permalink Reply by EmilyNicole98 on
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I'm pretty sure that if his A school is only 5 weeks, he will not have C school. I'm not 100% positive, but every super short A-school rate I know of does not include a C school. It's typically for the more technical rates.
What do you mean by paperwork to go to Florida? If you want to visit him, all he has to do is fill out a chit to get the weekend off and hope it gets approved. However, he will need a liberty buddy to get off base and they probably will not let you sign for him. Typically it's only spouses and parents. Also, he most likely won't be allowed to get liberty until he makes phase three, which is 2-3 weeks into a 5 week A school. This is about when he receives orders as well, making it too late for you to get married and get on his orders.
EmChammer got everything else I could say, she was right about all of the above. I really don't see it being a possibility for you to get married before he gets his orders, his schooling is just too short.
I know it's very hard to hear these things and realize that the picture in your head is nothing close to reality, but it's best to face this as quickly as possible. The fact of the matter is that they know NOTHING in bootcamp. Nothing. They hear a thousand rumors and they start to think they know what it's going to be like...but they don't. There was a post on here a few weeks ago with a girl saying that her boyfriend wrote her a letter saying she should follow him and travel the world with him...which could never happen. You will both quickly find once he's at a duty station that nothing is the way you imagined it and nothing like bootcamp and A school. In my humble opinion, it's not a good idea to get married before you experience a deployment together because deployments change everything.
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