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Still no word...
My boyfriend got to Pensacola A School on the 25th of January. I still have not heard anything from him. I don't know if I should be worried at this point or what. I have read where he should have access to a phone. I know he was in Indoc for the first week. This is the end of week two. I would like to think if he could, he would call. I know he is not the kind of guy to just stop communication. Has anyone gone through this? Does anyone have sailors in A School that came in around the 25th? And in Avionics?? My stomach is in knots!
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Permalink Reply by RachelLMSW07 on
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Thanks for asking your boyfriend. I appreciate the thoughtfulness. I was wondering if perhaps the barracks he is in has different restrictions than others. I have heard from other loved ones who have talked to their sailors, but they are in a different part of the base. He is not the type to just not call, so I disagree with the other person's response to that. Thanks again!
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Permalink Reply by Angie on
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They have access to a phone and can use the phone after school hours as long as they do not have duty. Have you sent him a FB message or an email...they also can have access to a computer
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Unfortunately, he closed down his FB page because someone hacked it.
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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Either he is in trouble and already on restriction, or he doesn't want to call you. I cannot think of any other reasonable explanation. They are busy, but not that busy.
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He is not the kind of guy to not call. So I disagree with your theory. As for getting in trouble; I don't think he would have gotten himself in trouble.
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Permalink Reply by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on
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As much as you don't want to hear it, Anti M is right. They do have access to computers and phones. Either he doesn't want to contact you or he's in trouble. The only other possibility would be he went missing or something of the sort, and as awful as that sounds, it has happened before, and being a girlfriend, you would not be the person the Navy would contact.
Do you have contact with his family? Have they heard from him?
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The one other possibility is he lost his phone/charger and hasn't thought to borrow a phone, and is waiting for payday to go get a new one.
Seriously, there are not many alternatives.
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Permalink Reply by meagan5220 on
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Hmm that's a long while to not hear from him, I am not saying he is purposefully trying not to contact you, but my husband was there a few days before he was able to get a phone, because he had watch and some quals during the hours the place to get a phone contract was open. But two weeks is a long amount of time for him not to have a phone. A friend of mine had a bf that graduated the same day as he did and she had her bf let him use his phone so he could call me. He didn't realize some of the other guys had time already to get phones. But he got a phone within like three days. Has his parents heard from him? that's really unusual, by now he should have had time to either have a phone shipped, buy a phone, find a pay phone, or borrow a buddy's phone. He has access to communication even if its not his own phone at this point unless he is in trouble I would imagine.
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I think there is a high possibility he has been super busy and maybe trying to impress others by offering for various jobs. He will get his phone as soon as he gives his parents an address to sent it to. All will be revealed soon enough (I hope). And, it is probably not as bad as I think it is. Our minds can makes things far worse than they really are.
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It sounds like you are in denial over things...ask his parents if they have heard from him. Even if he is trying to impress others...there are not that many jobs for them to do, and him being new there, they will not give him many of the jobs as he needs to focus on his school.
Lets do some numbers here...he gets there on the 25th, they do what they need to do and are given liberty the rest of the day until about 9ish..than they get liberty on Sunday from about 8 am to 9pm ish... Than he has school or classes mon- Friday from early am tell 4pm..they have duty every 4 days, so out of Mon - Friday he would have duty 2 days..the other days he has liberty tell about 9 pm ish... Than Saturday and Sunday again worst case he has duty one of those days, the other he has liberty...are you seeing a trend here...
You said he isn't the type of guy to not call..then maybe he just doesn't want to talk with you..
If I where you and as worried as you seem, I would call his parents...if you don't get along with his parents...then...yea not going there...
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Super busy... yeah, not in A school. There is a lot of sitting on your ass waiting in A school, outside of duty days, and few opportunities to volunteer to impress. I know what my own A school experience was like, and no, even if you are tagged to be a section leader, and new guys are not, there isn't that much he'd be doing with his liberty hours. Honestly, it isn't much like boot camp. They have free time.
Maybe he has the flu and is SIQ. That would actually be a more reasonable explanation than "busy".
I hope you hear from him soon.
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In a situation like this, there's no way to put it without being insensitive. Everyone's thinking the same thing, some people just have more guts to say it than others.
I think people tried to be pretty sensitive until she started making excuses. I've been a girlfriend who lives thousands of miles away from her boyfriend when she was young, I get those emotions. But sometimes you just have to be real with yourself and stop making excuses.
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