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Visits in A School

My boyfriend PIR is 3-27-15, and then off to A school in Pensacola. Im very excited, because he'll be in state now, but ten hours away from my city. Better than several states away, right? Will he be able to have visits on the weekends? Because he and I was discussing it before he left, and he wants to be able to see me while he is here. Has anyone else have their boyfriend go to A school in the state that they live in?

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Permalink Reply by Anti M on February 9, 2015 at 11:01am

He may have visits, once he has earned his liberty in phases. The first two or three weeks, he has to wear his uniform, and has an early curfew. Phase two means civilian clothes, but he still has to go back each night. Phase three means he can stay out overnight on weekends. He is supposed to have liberty buddies with him at all times, but he may request that you be his buddy. Easy with a chit.

Here is the link to the Great Lakes liberty policy, P-cola is very similar. Just to give you a rough idea of what liberty phases entail. I am still looking for the P-cola specific one online!

https://www.facebook.com/notes/training-support-center-tsc-great-la...

Permalink Reply by Desiree on February 9, 2015 at 1:55pm

My sailor and I both live in California. His A school is about six hours away, and hes been there for about 8 months! He is allowed liberty on weekends, which means he is allowed to visit when hes free. It gets expensive traveling back and forth, but it is so worth it. We see each other about every six weeks, whether that means he comes down here or i visit up there. Most times it means i visit up there because its just easier and sometimes he has to muster in the morning which means he must report (which couldnt work if he came down here to visit). I stay close to base and since hes in phase three he is allowed to stay in the hotel with me. it is so nice having him in the same state, but do not count on seeing him every weekend, they still have obligations to stay close to base some weekends. Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions. :) GOOD LUCK to you both!!

Permalink Reply by Anti M on February 9, 2015 at 2:23pm

A schools have a liberty mile limit. Some schools are far stricter than others, too. Best to know what the limit is, and if anyone would care if the sailor gets found out. Then decide whether to go there or if he can go to you.

For example, Great Lakes is 300 miles, and there have been cases where sailors got found out and set back to phase one. Last I heard nuke school was 450 miles. I used to know the P-cola limit too, but don't remember offhand.

Every ship and command in the fleet technically has a liberty recall limit too. Again, how strictly that is enforced varies. My husband could not come see me when we were both in Japan because we were on different bases. Neither of us were allowed to travel unless we could take leave, and they wouldn't usually approve it for us. We were both "essential personnel" which sucked. For future reference, when your sailors get to the fleet!

The trick is if the sailor is routinely going over the recall limit, is either get an out of bounds chit, or never, ever mention it to anyone.

And plane flights are always forbidden on liberty. No flying home for long weekends. May be possible with an out of bounds chit in special cases.

You will figure it out, they'll let him know during indoc what is allowed. It will be okay!

Edited to add: I wasn't talking about anyone specifically, just sharing my experience. LOL, I went over my limit now and then. As I said, there are ways to do what needs to be done!