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Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

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NAVY WIVES ON N4M

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Missing your Husband? Have Questions or just feeling plain lousy without him?? LETS TALK!!

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Comment by UrabissWife on January 15, 2013 at 4:44pm: they extended stay is like an apartment-ish you can pay monthly or weekly. I stayed at the value place off of scenic hwy. be careful where you choose to stay. it is not safe down there! i looked at a lot of places and they were all really ghetto. and when my mom and i went to breakfast at ihop right next to the base, a fast food place got robbed! our waitress was like "checkers just got robbed" we were like WHAT! it was 11 AM. and i also went to go get my car washed. and when i was vacuuming it out i have two suv's full of men block me in so i couldn't leave. i got into my car locked it and called my family..... they were trying to talk to me but i just ignored them. i went to the car wash on base after that :P yes phase 3 he can come stay the weekends with you. also if he does really well on all his tests and his room inspections, they may fox trot him like they did my husband. they moved him to barracks across the base, and he never had to be there. he stayed with me every day and went to class in the mornings. that was it :) he is an AD

Comment by Olivia Brown on January 15, 2013 at 4:36pm: Yes. My husband will be going to a school in Pensacola as well. It will be along move for me as well because we are from Michigan. What is an extended stay? I think I am going to go anyways and try to find myself somewhere and then he will be able to just come home on the weekends or whatever when he is in phase 3

Comment by UrabissWife on January 15, 2013 at 4:32pm: Olivia Brown... wen my husband went to A school in Florida, I moved down there. we are from Idaho so it was a long move, but you never know how long school will be for, so I only took the things I needed and the rest was in storage. I stayed at an extended stay in Pensacola. I had so many people telling me not to go or that it wasn't allowed, but I went anyway. I actually ended up running into Master chief and all the higher ranks and they were all really nice to me. they actually encouraged my husband to do better, and he got fox trotted the last 2 weeks he was there. do you know where your husband will be going to a school at?

Comment by Olivia Brown on January 15, 2013 at 2:17pm: When did he get down there? And please let me know what he finds out!

Comment by jacintaaradanasSHIP13DIV096 on January 11, 2013 at 5:02am: new to the group! hello! :)

Comment by abuon18 on January 7, 2013 at 7:46pm: I'm not familiar with either of those schools... But aren't they in Pensacola? Or is that AM? I'm not sure. Well the only advice I can give you at this point is to wait and see what the length of his school is going to be. Just remember if he is in A school for 2 months and you pack up and move there with him, you'll have to move again 2 months later when he's done.

Another thing to think about is that the military will only pay to move you once per year...at least that is what we were told when we were moving to my husband's year & a half long school. So if his A school IS 6 months long, and the Navy DOES pay to move you there, they may not pay to move you to his permanent duty station when he's finished with school. So something else to look into finding more info about.... Everyone tells you something different and we moved ourselves so we didn't look further into it but that's what my husband was told by his office when we were figuring out our move.

Comment by Olivia Brown on January 7, 2013 at 6:27pm: Aviation. Either AE or AT

Comment by abuon18 on January 7, 2013 at 5:44pm: What is his job?

Comment by Olivia Brown on January 7, 2013 at 5:10pm: Well there is the problem we don't know how long his school is yet because his job branches two different ways. I don't want to have to pay for it if I don't have to of course.

Comment by abuon18 on January 7, 2013 at 4:33pm: No one can stop you from moving where ever you would like to in the states.

If you're asking if the military will pay to move you they will only if his A school is a certain length (6 months or longer). Otherwise if you decide to move yourself to his A school you will have to pay for it yourself.

While he is in A school you will get BAH whether you move to his A school or stay home.