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Planning on moving to Pensacola while my husband is in A-school
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Permalink Reply by jonwife on
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They will not because AE's classes don't last long enough for it to be considered permanent. Unfortunetley wait time does not count towards anything. We are here in Pcola and my husband is ATI. His class is only 4 months long but we will have been here a total of about 8 months by the time he graduates a-school and he gets his orders. But since his class is only listed as 4 months that's what they go by. It sucks, I know!
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Permalink Reply by Gman Navy Husband on
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You can come down any time to see him by the way. Phase 1 sucks because he may not be able to leave base if he hasn't done the finance class. By now though he should have that out of the way. If so, he can go off base and spend the entire weekend with you, he will need to be back to the barracks by 10 I believe.
Also, as soon as he can get him to fill out a brown bagger chit if you are planning on moving down here. That will allow him to live with you off base. My wife got hers last week or the week before that, I don't remember now and she loves it. Being married is different than being single and I think most married folks want to get out of the barracks as soon as possible!! -
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Permalink Reply by RicksWifeAmber on
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They won't pay for your move until he gets his PCS orders. My husband graduated in Feb and he just classed up a few weeks ago. He has taken alot of grief about me being here in P'cola even though I pd for the move out of our pocket. All in all he will have been here 7 months before he gets out of here and his A school was only supposed to be 11 weeks. Also they may or may not approve your brown bag status- its according to who's over his barracks. The chief over my husbands denied his request even though we are in our 30's he is a model student with no negative SDR's. It is really a gamble.
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Permalink Reply by mrs. sly on
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Thank you all for the help :) I'm moving to Pensacola on the 15th, and am readay for this adventure :)
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Good luck. Did you find a place? Let us know how it goes.
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Permalink Reply by jessica on
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Hey my husband is in BC but will be graduating next week and is going to Pensacola for A-school he said his school is 5 weeks but by on here it could take months to start. I see you went through about the same thing. I don't want to spend months away from him mainly because we just had our first child. So when you moved down there did they let your sailor live with you?? Or can you still just visit him
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Jessica,
I am going to say this, but take it all as you will.
I have 2 friends down here that have male spouses. Neither one of them got brown bagger status, that is the ok to live off base with their family. My wife on the other hand and her friends she rooms with all have brown bagger status, they can live off base with their families. I don't know if it is because they are female they are allowed to live off base or the fact that they are all AEs. That is my wife's rate and all her roommates are also AEs. It may also depend on the barracks they stay in.
With all that said, I would try and find a group on here that is your husbands rate. Also, there is a Pensacola Corry Station group where there a lot of moms that can answer your questions about your husbands rate. You will find out through these groups if he has a long wait to class up.
If he does in fact have a long wait to class up then my advice is move down here if you can afford it. With that said, remember the Navy will NOT pay for this move. There are a ton of places for rent right off base. The housing market down here is a renters market for sure. I pay 500 for our 2 room duplex, no utilities are paid. I live 15 or so minutes from my wife's barracks.
Here is a link to the Pensacola group
Sailors in Pensacola, FL For A School
You will find a time-line on there for what to expect as far as phases. When your husband gets to Phase 3 even if he doesn't get brown bagger status he can stay at your place all weekend as long as he doesn't have duty (once a month they have weekend duty where they have to stay in the barracks all weekend). Phasing up will happen even if he is on hold to class up. So no worries about waiting until class starts to move up to Phase 3.
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Thanks I would really love to move down there (if his wait is longer than we thought)..I have done added everything up and it would cost way more to drive down there every weekend and get a hotel and stuff.. I am looking for a duplex also. I hope it all works out haven't told my husband yet that im looking into doing this but im sure he wont mind.
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He needs to get a brown bagger chit filled out to live off base with you, if that is what you want.
His chief will be able to help him with the changing of address and all that. It is all pretty easy. Just remember, the Navy will not pay for the move at all. -
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Correct on the phases. He can apply for brown bagger in phase 2 but he has to be phase 3 to be a brown bagger, that is according to my wife's barracks.
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