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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
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Comment by AH on September 14, 2010 at 3:35pm
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Mike just sent me an email saying that he might be out of communication until they get to their duty station. Since they have just left, that could be a long time. The longest since OCS that we will have at least not even been able to email.
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Comment by Paymaster on September 14, 2010 at 3:15pm
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sarahchum....welcome to our little slice of heaven!
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Comment by sarahschum on September 14, 2010 at 3:12pm
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Hey everyone! New to this site, my man just left for OCS in Rhode Island and I am stuck in Michigan. :( He attended Embry Riddle down in Florida for 2 years and now has his bachelors in flying. This is his first step to a 15-20 year career in the Navy as a pilot. This is our first time being separated for the 10 months we have been together. It is going to be hard I can tell (I just started college as well) but I know it will be all worth it! I love my Navy man. :)
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Comment by Rosemarie on September 14, 2010 at 12:08am
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He will actually be longer than 12 weeks. Apparently there is a break of a week or two for the Christmas holidays. I think he has the option to come home but he would use leave time. Not quite sure. At any rate, it delays his graduation. 12 weeks would have been Dec 24...instead his class is scheduled to graduate on Jan 07,2011. He's not crazy about leaving and then going back. Has anyone else had a LO in the same situation?
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Thanks Paymaster...guess I have to get used to the "wait and see" stuff :)
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Rosemarie.....Sometimes they give them jobs to do and then there have been times when they sent them home to wait. It just depends on how full the pipeline is.
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To sailordawgmom, when your son went to P-cola and just sat did he have any job to do or was he able to go home and wait it out?
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Rsoemarie....Congrats on your son attending OCS. Most of the training could take place in FL. However depending on the needs of the Navy they can be sent elsewhere. Right now the pipeline is pretty full so classing up is slow. But we are about to start a new fiscal year (Oct), so you never know what will happen.
Welcome to the rollercoaster ride. Hold on because you are at the begining and it can be a wild ride.
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Hi Everyone, This is my first posting in this group. My son starts OCS on Oct 3 and will be a pilot--hopefully jets. Also he is a graduate of USF---go Bulls!!!. So disappointed with the UF game. They should have played better than they did...after all, the beat FSU last season. Anyway, can anyone tell me how long he will have to wait after OCS to start flight training? I've gotten bits of info that it could be up to 7 months. Any truth to that? Also, is all the aviation training at Pensacola? Hope so. Would like him to be in Florida since that is home!
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This will be grandchild #3, but it will be our first boy.
Am busy making his blankets, burp cloths and quilt. Found the cutest flannel with little helicopters on it. His quilt will have the Apollo rocket and moon landing equiement. It was from material my mother made my son a bed covering from when he was a little boy. There was just enough materail left over for me to make this quilt with. See I can put my stash of material that I have been holding on to for 20 years to good use.
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