Girlfriends, Fiances,and Wives of Sailors

They can stay at the one in Pensacola, apparently.  

Are we talking having them stay overnight in the hotel with you? My student sailor stayed at the Navy Gateway with me... but now I honestly can't remember if it was overnight or not. The hotel was in my name because I have a military ID, so I don't know if that made a difference. My sailor was technically phase 3 but his class messed up so his commanding officers put them on lock down for the weekend... this all wasn't in Pensacola though.

I know for a fact the Gateway in Great Lakes is off limits to student sailors (not counting PIR weekend), period.  So is Navy Lodge.  It is right in the liberty rules, phase three or not, even with a chit.  

I do not know about the one at P-Cola, that seems different.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/training-support-center-tsc-great-la...

 2) Students are prohibited from entering Bldg 30 (Boorda Hall), Bldg 62 (Navy Gateway Inns and Suites), the 400 complex (with the exception of BEQ 439) and on-base housing (which includes the Navy Lodge) and Forest City Housing unless you are listed as a resident. During recruit graduation weekend from Recruit Training Command, if recruits attaching to to TSC-GL have family staying in the Navy Lodge or Gateway Inns and Suites, they will be required to route a special request chit to the OIC to be able to enter and meet the family at their room. 

If someone told him "it is okay" verbally, that is worth nothing.  He may get away with it, but if he gets busted, it is all on him, and nothing on the person who said okay.  Always get it in writing.  Hint: the rules are in writing, an approved chit is also in writing .... he should be more cautious.

I have heard of guests in Gateway at P-cola, no problem.  I just can't find their liberty policy online.  Probably because there's two training commands down there.  If you run across it, please post it!

If you write a bunch of letters, number or date them so he can read them in order.

Anna, my fiancé went to bootcamp on 11/4/15 and is now in Pensacola for A-school. Don't be worried about writing letters every day. The day we got the form letter I sent out 9 letters of my own on the same day. I wrote him a letter for every single day that he was gone and he STILL did not receive as much mail as some of the guys (with his family and my family writing him too). Send all the letters you want but make sure to date them so he knows to read them in order. I dated them and number the envelopes too, however, they have to open all their mail in front of their RDC, so he tore the numbers off/lost the envelopes so the best way to go is with dating them. He should have enough room in his rack to store all the letters so don't worry about that too much, he needs all the support you can give him! Feel free to shoot me a message if you have questions or anything, I have learned soooooooo much over the past few months. Head up girly, you got this. 

Anna! When my boyfriend was at boot camp, I wrote every single day, dated them, stuck them all in an envelope and sent them out as soon as I could. So basically he only got one envelope with a bunch of mail in it. Write as much as you can, I know my boyfriend loved receiving letters from me. Keep them supportive, try not to make him upset or anything although, obviously it's okay to tell him you miss him. A month in I received a phone call from him! Best day ever, so don't expect a call for a few weeks. But just so you know, stay strong. It's really hard being away from each other for so long for the first time but you will get through it. <3 I probably repeated a lot of what everyone already said, lol sorry if I did.

I got my second call the following week, usually after the first call they will call 2 more times and the last one will be before battle stations and then you wont hear from them until you see them at graduation.

Also they are normally in Sundays

Anna writing to him is honestly the best thing and it instantly makes me feel better too! My boyfriend is on a sub right now and even though I can't get in touch with him at all, every night I open up my laptop and type and date them. It's like you are talking to them nut just no reply yet. I plan on sending them to him when he surfaces. But you are a great person and I'm honestly so happy you joined this website because I haven't really met a navy girlfriend on here yet (:

Dezairay, my boyfriend said the same thing about pictures! One of the RDCs actually laminated one of mine with tape for my boyfriend, lol

Tayler, it might take a while for them to get there but I believe they do eventually. If they don't receive it I'm sure it would be sent back to you.

How long it will take to get phone calls and letters, and how often you'll get them, actually depends on the division he's in, how long it takes them to get processed, and the division's performance. My fiancé's division got processed very quickly, and I got a phone call from him the very first Sunday. His recruiter had told us it would be 2-3 weeks, so I actually missed it because I wasn't expecting it, had my ringer off, and was at the store. This was not his call to tell me he had arrived, or an I need extra documents call, he left me a cute voicemail and explained they would get phone calls regularly as long as they stayed focused and out of trouble. Always have your phone ringer on loud! The calling card charges them for connecting, and if he doesn't have a lot of time, he may not be able to try again because it can take a few minutes to connect. I got a call every Sunday excluding one when my fiancé's division was not on the roster, but when they performed well on an inspection the following week, I got an extra phone call on a Thursday. 

For letters, it was the same, since the division was processed quickly and able to go to the NEX (the Navy Exchange), my fiancé was able to pick up letter writing materials and started sending mail the first Sunday. They can usually only send mail out once a week, on Sunday during holiday routine, but as long as they follow directions, they will have a mail call every day to receive letters from you/his family when they arrive. It will take a little bit longer for the letters to arrive to your sailor personally because they have to be sorted. It will make it more difficult if you decided to send it before he has a ship and division number. They're not all staying in the same place. Ships 2-4 have the same address, but 5-17 are all different. He will eventually get the letters, but for those of you wondering, definitely save the letters until you have the actual address he sends you. You can save a little money on stamps by sending your first batch when you get his address as a parcel. He will have to open it in front of the captain, but as long as it's just letters/small photos, they'll understand. 

Some divisions don't get holiday routine right away because it takes longer to fill their division or get processed, so they have too much to do. Those doing SEALs training will not get to communicate as often for security reasons. He may not get to call because he's on watch for a portion of holiday routine. It's important for your recruit to be efficient because they will have a lot of other tasks they have to finish on their own time during holiday routine before they can make phone calls with their division or go send their mail out. Finally, some recruits have a harder time to adjusting to being part of the Navy team, and unfortunately, one recruit can ruin it for the entire division. Somebody in my fiancé's division threw out an article of clothing he'd been issued, which is not allowed, and they had to do ITE until someone owned up to it, but the RDCs wouldn't believe they weren't just claiming they did it to make ITE stop. We're still not sure exactly who did it. Once, he had to stand with his division in that -15 GL weather because a recruit forgot his hat, and my sailor was kind of mad because obviously everyone else had hats on, what was this kid thinking, and I asked him how did everyone get outside without realizing their shipmate didn't have his hat on! Always encourage your recruit to work with those guys if/when he expresses frustration. If he wants to cal you more often, he needs to work to make sure the entire division is getting their stuff done and right.

@ChiTownNavyGF whoever's name he puts on the list is who gets to be admitted. It doesn't matter what his mom is saying, not to sound harsh. There are no extra tickets, or tickets in general. Just a name list. They do not give tickets. His mom will receive a letter with the list of 3-4 names, and those are the ones that are admitted. Now, he may be able to ask a fellow recruit to list an extra person on their guest list if they are not using all of their guest passes, but that is it. Only the names on the list will be admitted. 
As for the parking pass, that information is provided in the pir letter that has the names and date.

I would ask your SR who he has listed on the letter. If your name is there, then you are good to go. No one can change that list but him. 

It is very stressful when it comes to family/gf/wives/kids/siblings. I would try not to bring too much of it into your SR's letters as he is under enough pressure and stress with things. I would maybe just ask him who all did he list as his guests and then go from there. 

It will all work out. Good luck.