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Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

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Spouses of Sailors going to A-school in P-cola

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This is a group mainly for spouses of sailors that are going to school in Pensacola. This will be a place where spouses can ask and answer questions that effect spouses of sailors while they are stationed at Pensacola.

Members: 132
Latest Activity: Jan 19, 2019

Various links to military stuff.

FAQ page on the Per Diem, Travel, and Transportation Allowance Commitee website
Here is a link that you will need to check out. It is a FAQ about PCS moves and what $$'s are available.

Per Diem, Travel, and Transportation Allowance Commitee main page

My Base Guide

Space A Travel Eligibility
Ok, this is a very important link and I hope it stays valid if I forget to update it. Just so everybody knows, legal dependents are now allowed to travel Space A while their military sponsor is on deployment orders. If you don't know what this is it is very simple. You can fly at little cost almost anywhere in the world on a government aircraft. You sign up on a list and wait for your number to be called. So, if your sailor is deployed to say, Japan, you can jump on a Space A flight to Japan for say 30 dollars. I don't know the exact amount, but it is cheap. Take a look at this, Google Space A travel, you will get all the answers you need. If you have more questions, ask.

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Comment by lovemysailor (ship 14 div 190) on June 27, 2010 at 11:04pm: question when and if my husbands brown bag gets approved will they not take out meal deduction out of his check? they took like almost 400 for it and he barley every eats there sometimes for breakfast and thats it!

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on June 25, 2010 at 11:55pm: good job!!

Comment by lovemysailor (ship 14 div 190) on June 25, 2010 at 10:22pm: got somewhat of good news today,but we will see! hubby talked to his advisor at school house about getting brown bag, his advisor said he didnt see why with his situation he shouldnt get his brown bag approved. he told him to talk to his cheif! which is the same guy who from the begging who told him there was no way! well hubby talked to him agian today and told him how i was preggo due to pop any day and how well he was doing, how he is 2nd in class, does yomen, never late has not got in any trouble. well he said he didnt say no and he did say yes, he said let me look over your records and scores and see if you have been in any trouble and talk with the cheif at the school house and we will let you know on mon tues. so all his records are great so i dont see why they will say no unless they just wanna be dumb. so thats good news. hubby thinks that he told him no way at begging bc he didnt know what he was all about, if he was going to get in trouble or do good! so we will see and i will let you all know! sorry if that was so confusing. monday he will be phase 3 so next weekend he will be able to sleep over no matter what it will be first time sleeping over together since march :) hopefully there is a way that they can make it get approved fast cause i could go into labor any day and if he is here i wont have to drive son to babysitters and drive myself to hospital while in labor lol. also hubby is 2nd in class yay! i will stop blabing. :)

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on June 21, 2010 at 2:14am: Jessica, some will say hard, some will say easy. Just tell him to get the packet, fill it out and turn it in. Nobody can say for sure 100% that it will get approved but there a lot of folks that have them approved. My neighbor, lovemysailor, her husband is getting the runaround, or was last I knew, about the packet and his Chiefs telling him he wouldn't get it. It may depend on your spouses barracks, who is in charge, and what they want their sailors to be doing. When my wife turned in her chit it didn't take but a couple of weeks to get approved and it wasn't that hard to fill out. I think the response is different for everybody.

Comment by Jessica on June 21, 2010 at 1:51am: Does anyone know if it's hard to get approval for a brown bagger chit ? My husband is going to try to put in for one but so far it's not very promising that it will actually be approved.

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on June 20, 2010 at 12:07am: Sorry no clue here. My wife stayed on NAS P-cola.

Comment by lovemysailor (ship 14 div 190) on June 18, 2010 at 11:31pm: lol ya i seem to be gone alot latley doing alot at navy hospital or picking up or dopping off hubby! still working and having problems with brown bag! but im not sure of his grad date but his school is 7 or 8 weeks i guess. we will still be here in aug. well see and keep ya updated lol

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on June 18, 2010 at 11:26pm: lovemysailor, funny you live next door and we never see you!! How long is his school? You guys going to be gone before us?? Aug 10th is our grad date.

Comment by lovemysailor (ship 14 div 190) on June 18, 2010 at 11:22pm: hubby just started avaition mechanical school! didnt take him long to class up! he got here may 21st so just a few weeks!

Comment by Gman Navy Husband on June 17, 2010 at 12:06am: If you come down here you won't really need the bases help finding a place. There are rentals all over Pensacola and Escambia county.
I doubt it you can stay in base housing. You need command sponsorship for that, from what I understand, but don't quote me on that.