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Comment by Dona on July 17, 2011 at 6:45pm

Terry'saproudmom-our son went to A school at Port H, also. He is a CM3 now still in CA, but at Coronado. he is not in a battalion so he has not been deployed. He has been in 2 years. At Port H his wife was allowed to visit every weekend at first, but I really don't remember if they were allowed to leave at first. He did have his phone and laptop. We had to ship his car from GA. His wife lived in Orange Co. so she wasn't far away.  Congratulations on PIR! We had to wait until we were on the way to GL to get that awaited phone call after Battlestations! I do remember the anxiety over that!

Comment by Terry'saproudmom(Ship02-Div936) on July 17, 2011 at 5:10pm

My son took the reservist job because it was available...do you think they will allow him to switch to full active enlistment? 

Comment by Terry'saproudmom(Ship02-Div936) on July 17, 2011 at 5:06pm

Denise and Cancer have mentioned CM2 and CM3.  What does that mean?  Is it pay grade like E3?

Comment by Terry'saproudmom(Ship02-Div936) on July 17, 2011 at 5:05pm

I'm laughing because when this whole process started my older son (Dustin) told me I could never be in the military, I'm too messy...he said this as he stood in the middle of his room with a whole RAV-4's worth of stuff that he couldn't walk through.  He moved home from Baltimore where he graduated from law school four days after Devin left for bootcamp. How he thought he could put a large apartments worth of stuff in one small bedroom I will never know.  He and his brother could never live together on there own.  One would be moving and straightening things up and the other would be leaving things where ever they fall. :-D

Comment by Terry'saproudmom(Ship02-Div936) on July 17, 2011 at 1:08pm

Oh no I didn't mean there was anything wrong with being a CM.  I am proud of his decission...He wanted to be a Seebee!!!  By the time he made that decission he had decided he would love it,  I am hoping he does!  Good skills to have too!

Comment by Terry'saproudmom(Ship02-Div936) on July 17, 2011 at 12:57pm

Wow I meant two sons...wish we had spell check on N4M's

Comment by Terry'saproudmom(Ship02-Div936) on July 17, 2011 at 12:56pm

I have too son's one very sloppy the other very neat....Luckily Devin is my neat one so he should have no problem with keeping his room clean, should be use to it even more after Bootcamp.  I am glad he had correct info about the dorms, he sounded excited about that.  CM is something totally new to him.  Never seemed to be much interested in working on vehicles...just wanted to be a Seabee so badly that after a year of waiting for other jobs in construction area he decided he better take the CM job.  I am hoping he absolutely loves it.  He is not really a "book" learner...more of a "learn by doing"  I hope there is a lot of hands on training in A school.  He can do the book learning, just struggles more with it.

Comment by SeabeeWife20 on July 17, 2011 at 12:40pm

Terry's mom....each A school has phases of liberty. He will have to take a test and pass all his inspections and be doing well in school. Then eventually he will be able to leave base and stay the night off base, but only with the a special request chit. My husband had to get permission every weekend that he came home to stay with me. We were in Texas, though, so I lived about a mile off base. Depending on his command he may have to get an inspection on his vehicle before he is allowed to drive a certain about of miles. But they do allow them to have the cars and he will have to register it with the base....he still may have to get a chit in order to do that too.  He will be able to use his computer and lap top like everyone else said. He will be in a dorm style type room, each baes has different styles so it may differ place to place. He will probably share a room with someone, but that's to be expected throughout his time with the Navy. He will be able to talk to you a lot more than he is able to now, but he will be really busy with school too. A school is sometimes very overwhelming and a lot of times they are so focused on studies, duty, and other things that they don't call home as much as moms, wives, and girlfriends would like. I lived a mile off base and still didn't hear a lot from my hubby during A school because he was so busy all the time. If you have any other questions feel free to ask....we will all help as much as we can :D

Comment by Terry'saproudmom(Ship02-Div936) on July 17, 2011 at 12:17pm

I should mention that Devin is also enlisted as a reserve CM.  Are either of your son's reservists?  Thanks for the info.  Right now I am on pins and needles.  Not sure but his Battle Stations is either tonight or tomorrow night, the last letter he wrote was from the 8th and they still didn't know for sure.  Thank you for your help so far I'm sure I will have many questions.  Oh, just thought of one.  Devin is under the impression that their housing at PH is dorm style, not like the compartment style at boot camp; is he right?

Comment by Terry'saproudmom(Ship02-Div936) on July 17, 2011 at 11:34am

Thanks for the welcome.  Denise and Cudawn.  Do you remember if your Sailors were able to use their cell phone and computers as soon as they got to Port H or if they had to go through a Phase or two first?  I'm wondering if our communication will get better once he is there.  Also, we only live 55 milels from PH and my son had mentioned that if he can get liberty he would like to come home and get his car.  Any info on having a car on base while in A school?

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