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Nuke school questions?
My boyfriend will be graduating bootcamp in January, and then hes off to South Carolina for Aschool. Im wondering when the next time I will be able to see him after his graduation will be? Im soo excited to see him in 2 weeks now though! Its been pretty hard...
Thanks :)
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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Do you know which rate he was selected for? He might be able to come home for a short time after A school, but that may be well over 6 months. He should get holiday stand down too next year. The entire program takes around two years, and he should get some leave after he graduates from prototype.
There will also be times when you could go visit him.
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That is paygrade. He will be given EM, ET or MM in boot camp. ET is the longest of the three A schools.
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Okay. That makes a bit of a difference in how long before he gets a break between schools.
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Permalink Reply by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on
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You can go see him down in South Carolina any time you'd like. You just have to remember that it's not his time anymore, it's the navy's, so keep your expectations real if you do visit him.
They do have restrictions on liberty, they're just not as strict as after boot camp or as other A-schools.
He'll go through three schools, A school will be 6 months (it's only 3 for MMs), Power School will be 6 months, and Prototype will be 6 months. There are hold times in between these, some longer than others and sometimes it's longer for certain rates compared to others. When my husband went through he had about a two weeks INDOC period before A school started. I've heard of people waiting longer to start A school, just not much shorter. My husband had a two month hold between A school and Power School (this hold is called T-Track), this can be as short as two weeks or as long as a few months. My husband had a two week hold between Power School and Prototype (this hold is called Grad Hold), the normal at the time for his rate was about 2 months while other rates had 6 months or more of this.
When he gets there, he'll go through 3 phases of liberty. Each phase takes about 4 weeks to get through once he starts A school (even though phase 1 is what he'll be in when he first arrives) and he must be in good academic standing and pass a PFA to go to the next phase. I recommend not visiting until he's at least phase 2, if not phase 3, but it is possible to visit during Phase 1.
The phases go something like this:
Phase 1: Must in be in uniform at all times. Can only leave base on weekends. Curfew of midnight including the weekends (must be in barracks room by midnight). Cannot drive a vehicle (there are some exceptions for married Nukes I believe). Cannot consume alcohol even if over 21.
Phase 2: Must be in uniform during the weekdays. Can leave base on weekdays (but in uniform). Curfew of midnight including the weekends. Can drive. Can consume alcohol if over 21 (be VERY cautious of this rule... they will not hesitate to punish you even if you were present while someone was under 21 and you did not report it. They are very strict about this).
Phase 3: Only have to be in uniform during classes. Can leave base on weekdays out of uniform. No curfew on weekends (if I remember right he just had to be back in his room by midnight the night before class).
Sometimes in Phase 2, he can ask special permission to stay in a hotel off base if he has someone in town visiting, but this is not guaranteed and only granted if he is doing well in school and has stayed out of trouble.
Also, they do have weekend duty sometimes, so if he has duty on Saturday, he would have to return by Friday night even in Phase 3 and spend all day Saturday (until like 6 or 7 am Sunday) on base.
As far as when he'll be able to come visit you... They *usually* get about 2 weeks leave after A school and about 2 weeks leave after Power School and about 30 days of leave after Prototype (which includes time to move to his new duty station). Most of the time this leave is given right after graduation, but occasionally they make them wait until further in his hold period. Also, if the graduation is close enough to the Christmas stand down (which is a two week leave if they're in school, sometimes they make them stay on base if they're in T-Track), they may make them wait until then.
Hopefully that gives you some idea of what his schedule will be like and how much freedom he'll have. It will definitely be much easier for you to visit him than for him to come home to visit you, just keep in mind that the weekends he may have duty and also have to study.
If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them! I dated my Nuke through his first deployment, and now we're married and finally live together. Enjoy boot camp graduation!! :)
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